The Squiggle Sense of Dune
“Perfect defenses are not always an advantage. Complete protection can become a hindrance for it limits you in other ways.”
House Harkonnen, From The Dune Series — Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
“Body and mind are two phenomena, observed under different conditions, but of one and the same ultimate reality. Body and mind are...
“I find our period remarkable precisely because some of the questions in social science and in natural science form a kind of confluence. In the past we’ve seen two other periods in which such convergences occurred: the Greek classical period and the Renaissance. And during both those periods you had people like Plato and Aristotle, or Descartes and Newton, who were philosopher-scientists.”
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from ‘‘Wizard of Time’’ (1984); TCN p187
TSS Facebook Fan Page
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TSS 2010
The Squiggle Sense team wishes you a productive and ’squiggly’ 2010. This year, we have set our sights on many large~small projects, all sharing the underlying theme of helping you all to become aware of your squiggle...
The Squiggleland Challenge…
The Complementary Nature is Linear~Nonlinear
by Tom Holroyd and David A. Engstrøm
In school physics classrooms the world over, students are taught to use equations such as
dx/dt = f(x, p) + H.O.T.
to model nature mathematically.
In such equations, f(x, p) is some linear...
The Squiggle Sense of Learning
What follows is an excerpt from The Complementary Nature, where we outline a novel learning paradigm. It is framed in a subset of the complementary pairs (squiggles) of coordination dynamics. The complementary aspects of each...
Just say “Mtsbwy!”
Mtsbwy! or May the squiggle be with you! This is what we call the squiggle greeting: It means that you wish for the person you greet with it to awaken, be mindful of, or simply appreciate their squiggle sense, that is, their...
TSS of Vincent Van Gogh
“So I am always between two currents of thought, first the material difficulties, turning round and round to make a living; and second, the study of color. I am always in hope of making a discovery there, to express the love...
The Four Aspects
If you spend a little time looking around The Squiggle Sense blog, you will find a lot of information to ponder.
There are many novel concepts, terms and abbreviations to learn. Learning them and how they fit together can at...
The Squigglespeak of Fred Cummins
In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others…
The following excerpt comes from the article by Fred Cummins, Deep Affordance: Seeing the Self in the World:
Fred...
The Squiggle Sense Quotes
“. . . the two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”
Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1626); TCN p.54 — René...
The Squiggle Sense of Body~Mind
body~mind
body itself,
mind itself,
either body or mind,
both body and mind,
body changing to mind,
mind changing to body,
between body and mind,
neither body nor mind,
beyond body and mind…
ASSC8 - The Complementary Nature
by J. A. Scott Kelso
This lecture comes in three “movements” and arises out of a new book (Kelso, J.A.S. & D.A. Engstrom, The Complementary Nature, (2006 MIT Press).
The first movement explores the central role...
The Coordination of Life
by J. A. S. Kelso
“The coordination of living things is one of the great mysteries in the science of life. Coordination is in us and all around us. It is everywhere we look–from the coordination among the genes that...
The Squiggles of Coordination Dynamics
“The current CP of CD (squiggle) collection furnishes a kind of consulting tool, an aid to study that can help one better understand the various concepts, principles, and phenomena of coordination dynamics. It also provides...
Review of Kelso’s Dynamic Patterns
J. A. Scott Kelso. Dynamic Patterns: the self-organization of brain and behavior. MIT Press. 1995
Review
This marvellous book describes a wealth of biological features in terms of the structure of the underlying dynamical space,...
Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI): Coordination Dynamics of the Human~Machine
In a just released scientific journal article entitled ‘Virtual Partner Interaction (VPI): Exploring Novel Behaviors via Coordination Dynamics’, brain scientists Kelso, de Guzman, Reveley and Tognoli have introduced...
The Squiggle Sense of The Glass Bead Game
“As long as Knecht permitted the flow of inner images to come without direction, as they do, like dreams, in the initial stage of relaxation, there were two principal scenes which emerged from the stream and lingered, two...
Can An Electron Be Two Places At One Time?
MAX PLANCK SOCIETY Press Release News C / 2005 (43)
“Max Planck Researchers in Berlin show that for electrons from nitrogen molecules, the wave-particle character exists simultaneously
The double-slit was voted the most...
The Squiggle Sense of the Vitruvian Man
From Wikipedia on The Vitruvian Man: “This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and provides the perfect example of Leonardo’s keen interest in proportion. In addition, this picture represents...
The Complementary Nature
Overview
J. A. Scott Kelso and David A. Engstrøm have written The Complementary Nature to summarize their research plan. In this book, Kelso and Engstrøm contend that ubiquitous contraries are complementary and propose a comprehensive,...
Squigglespeak of the Day
In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others…
The Squiggle (~) Symbol:
“The squiggle (~) is our symbol connecting contraries and other mutually...
The Metastable Brain: Coordination Dynamics of Binding and its Breakdown
by J. A. Scott Kelso
A considerable amount of evidence and theory suggests that transient, short-lived phase-coupled oscillations within and between specialized areas of the brain provide a mechanism for neural integration. The...
Theoretical Foundations of Coordination Dynamics
by Viktor Jirsa, November 9th, 2005
Researchers in the field of Coordination Dynamics aim to identify general laws of pattern formation in human movements rather than searching for a locus of movement pattern generation.
This...
An Overview of Coordination Dynamics
TSS: In the following excerpts of J. A. Scott Kelso’s introduction speech to the Coordination Dynamics 2002 Meeting, we are given still another useful overview of coordination dynamics, a brief flyover of its history and...
An Essay on Understanding the Mind
by. J. A. Scott Kelso
Several conjectures by A. S. Iberall on life and mind are used as a backdrop to sketch a theory of mental activity that respects both the contents of thought and the dynamics of thinking. The dynamics, in...
Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends
Coordination comes in many guises and represents one of the most striking, but least understood features of living things. Over the last 20 years or so a new foundation for understanding coordination has emerged called Coordination...
Squigglespeak of Inna Semetsky
In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others…
Inna Semetsky
“I cite Kelso and Engstrom who use the sign “~” to pinpoint the relation: “In...
The Coordination Dynamics Law - An Equation of Life?
“In coordination dynamics, where apartness and togetherness coexist as a complementary pair—where a whole is a part and a part is a whole—there are no equilibria, no fixed points at all.”
TCN — J....
The Squiggle Sense of Yin~Yang
“The dynamic unity of opposites can be illustrated with the simple example of a circular motion and its projection…The circular movement will appear as an oscillation between two opposite points, but in the movement...
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EEG CD: Neuromarkers of Social Coordination
by Emmanuelle Tognoli*
ABSTRACT - The aim of this chapter is to present a framework of EEG coordination dynamics based on rhythmical entrainment of brain activity. The interest of continuous brain∼behavior1 analysis is underlined...
The Human Brain and Behavior Laboratory
THE LAST GREAT CHALLENGE: Understanding Human Brains
The human brain is complex, possessing some 1012 neurons and 1014 neuronal connections. Out of this enormous complexity patterns of cognition, emotion and behavior somehow...
The Complementary Nature of Coordination Dynamics: Toward a Science of the In-Between
by J. A. Scott Kelso pdf
Excerpts From ‘Whither a Science of the In-Between?’
“…we need a science that embraces not only the extremes, but also the vast world of the in-between (Kelso and Engstrom 2005). That science is...
Brain, Behavior, and Beyond: A Seminar on Coordination Dynamics
A Brief History of Coordination
J.A. Scott Kelso
Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33431
This talk will trace, in a somewhat personal and informal fashion, the origins of...
TCN ENDORSEMENTS
"I have to share that this is maybe my favourite book ever! ;-)
I put off reading it because I was a bit worried about whether it would have mathematical arguments beyond my capacity, but you’ve written in such an easy and engaging way that it’s like having a conversation with you in my living-room. Thanks so much for this book - all sorts of thoughts are spinning around in my brain as a result!"
—Dr. Karen Shue
"The Complementary Nature is a genuinely fascinating, provocative, and unique book. It rises to the challenge of describing how either/or thinking obscures the in-between dynamic realities that constitute life itself and in turn how these realities rest on complementary rather than oppositional pairs.
In the process, it breaks new ground and opens fresh terrain for future research by illuminating ways in which the science of coordination dynamics—from the study of brains to the study of behavior—offers new paths for understanding the nature of human nature."
—Dr. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, author of The Primacy of Movement
"To date, Bohr's generalized complementarity principle has been no more than an epistemological stance with little to say to the scientist expressing a normal interest in predicting natural phenomena. In their book, Kelso and Engstrøm show how the principle can advance scientific prediction and, in turn, how science—especially the science of coordination—can develop the principle. Scientists and philosophers alike will find much to ponder and debate in the pages of this book, a book that I'm sure Niels Bohr would have found deeply satisfying."
—M. T. Turvey, Trustees' Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut, and Senior Research Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
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