- Vitaly Vanchurin
The World as a Neural Network
Saturday, January 20, 2024
The World as a Neural Network
Monday, January 08, 2024
Symbolic Communication
- Bernardo Kastrup (1974 - )
UAPs and Non-Human Intelligence
Sunday, January 07, 2024
Cosmogenesis
- Brian Thomas Swimme (1950 - )
Cosmogenesis: An Unveiling of the Expanding Universe
Thursday, January 04, 2024
Cosmic Serpent
- Jeremy Narby (1959 - )
The Cosmic Serpent, DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Complexity
- Murray Gell-Mann (1929 - 2019)
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Full of Fire
- Edward Fredkin (1934 - 2023)
A New Cosmogony
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Orderly Action Within the Whole
a consideration of time as a
projection of multidimensional
reality into a sequence of moments.
- David Bohm (1917 - 1992)
Friday, December 08, 2023
Disorder to Order
- Fritjof Capra (1939 - )
Patterns of Connection
Tuesday, December 05, 2023
Fungal States of Minds
Thursday, November 09, 2023
Observer-Centric Virtualities
Monday, October 23, 2023
Expanding Our Vision
- Eric Kandel (1929 - )
The Age of Insight
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Subtle Interconnections
- Warren Weaver (1894 - 1978)
Science and complexity
Monday, March 06, 2023
Cartesian Fallacy
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
"Logic does not lead us from the fact that we are an integral part of the web of life to certain norms of how we should live. However, if we have the deep ecological experience of being part of the web of life, then we will (as opposed to should) be inclined to care for all of living nature. Indeed, we can scarcely refrain from responding in this way.
By calling the emerging new vision of reality 'ecological' in the sense of deep ecology, we emphasize that life is at its very center. This is an important issue for science, because in the mechanistic paradigm physics has been the model and source of metaphors for all other sciences. 'All philosophy is like a tree,' wrote Descartes. 'The roots are metaphysics, the trunk is physics, and the branches are all the other sciences.'
The systems view of life has overcome this Cartesian metaphor. Physics, together with chemistry, is essential to understand the behavior of the molecules in living cells, but it is not sufficient to describe their self-organizing patterns and processes. At the level of living systems, physics has thus lost its role as the science providing the most fundamental description of reality. This is still not generally recognized today. Scientists as well as nonscientists frequently retain the popular belief that 'if you really want to know the ultimate explanation, you have to ask a physicist,' which is clearly a Cartesian fallacy. The paradigm shift in science, at its deepest level, involves a perceptual shift from physics to the life sciences."
- Fritjof Capra (1939 - ) and Pier Luigi Luisi (1938 - )
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
"Nature is an infinite sphere
whose center is everywhere and
whose circumference is nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Tree Talk
Walkers who visit one of the ancient deciduous preserves in the forest I manage always report that their heart feels lighter and they feel right at home. If they walk instead through coniferous forests, which in Central Europe are mostly planted and are, therefore, more fragile, artificial places, they don't experience such feelings. Possibly it's because in ancient beech forests, fewer "alarm calls" go out, and therefore, most messages exchanged between trees are contented ones, and these messages reach our brains as well, via our noses. I am convinced that we intuitively register the forest's health."
- Peter Wohlleben (1964 - )
The Hidden Life of Trees
Monday, November 28, 2022
Skeleton of Truth
Precise
And if you read between the lines
You will find nothing there
For that is the discipline I ask
Not more, not less
Not the world as it is
Not ought to be –
Only the precision
The skeleton of truth
I do not dabble in emotions
Hint at implications
Evoke the ghosts of old forgotten creeds.
All that is for the preacher
The hypnotist, therapist and missionary
They will come after me
And use the little that I said
To bait more traps
For those who cannot bear
The lonely
Skeleton
of Truth"
Friday, November 11, 2022
Improvisational Nature
in the early universe capable of
generating the current complex
structure that we live in,
the complex structures that we are?
And what if these structures
had an improvisational nature."
- Stephon Alexander (1971 - )
The Jazz of Physics
Friday, September 30, 2022
Subjective Wholes
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Relation Between Observer and Thing
- W. Ross Ashby (1903 - 1972)
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Maximizing Play
Friday, July 08, 2022
Loosely Conjoined Cells of a Tissue
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher