“At a more microscopic level, this metastable mechanism for binding and its breakdown is realized biophysically by coupling neural populations, themselves composed of groups of Hodgkin-Huxley, conductance-based neurons. More generally, coexisting tendencies for functional integration and segregation on all levels attest to the brain’s inherently complementary nature. (Kelso & Engstrøm, 2006)”
— J. A. Scott Kelso
Scientifically speaking, nature is grounded in the laws of quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics, a strange situation arises: atoms and photons can behave as either waves or particles, and which behavior is observed depends...
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...
“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...
by J. Lagarde, J. A. S.Kelso, C. Peham and T. Licka pdf
TSS: Here is one of the first scientific journal articles to use a squiggle (horse~rider) in its title. Using coordination dynamics to understand a complementary pair outside...
action potential~graded potential
afferent~efferent
agonist~antagonist
axon~dendrite
brain~mind
brain~neuron
central~peripheral
chemical~electrical
dorsal stream~ventral stream
excitation~inhibition
glia~neuron
hearing~sound
left~right
light~vision
Na+~K+
potentiation~depression
presynaptic~postsynaptic
sensation~perception
sensory~motor
serial~parallel
smell~taste
spike~threshold
subthreshold~superthreshold
Want...
The squiggle sense of modern~ancient
The modern itself,
The ancient itself,
Either the modern or the ancient,
Both the modern and the ancient,
The modern changing to the ancient,
The ancient changing to the modern,
Between the...
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,...
“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....
Max Planck Researchers in Berlin show that for electrons from nitrogen
molecules, the wave~particle character exists simultaneously
Electron Cloud
One way of visualising the electron is to imagine it as a cloud moving around...
By Stacey Singer, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
(Original Article – June 19, 2006) pdf
One hundred billion neurons, packed to the size of two fists, control what we see, do and feel. The tools of modern medicine allow scientists...
part of the whole,
whole of the part,
beginning~ending,
together~apart.
sentient being~becomings,
progress~regress,
more~less,
accidentally~on purpose.
metastable state~tendencies,
create~annihilate functional information,
enfolding~exfolding...
The 20th century is well named as the Century of the Gene. (1) Biologists focused on establishing linkages of genotype (the genetic composition of the organism) to phenotype (what the organism looks and behaves like) and, in...
“An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.”
“The charm of the season – and the...
by J. A. Scott Kelso* and Emmanuelle Tognoli*
ABSTRACT Metastability has been proposed as a new principle of behavioral and brain function and may point the way to a truly complementary neuroscience. From elementary coordination...