From Quantum Mechanics to The Complement...
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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 upon the instrument used to measure it. Although waves and particles seem to...
Coordination Dynamics of The Brain: Towa...
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by J. A. Scott Kelso
“Despite all the successes of contemporary neuroscience in alleviating the many neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases that affl ict us, human beings have not changed in any fundamental sense.
Wars, poverty, violence, fear, greed, and struggles for power permeate modern...
Grounding Yin~Yang in Coordination Dynam...
Among other ways of saying it, the complementary nature is about grounding yin~yang relationships in a new principle of how the human brain works.
For example, on the one hand people think the brain works as an integrated organ where information from different parts of the brain is integrated to form...
Coordination Dynamics of The Complementa...
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ABSTRACT
Niels Bohr’s maxim contraria sunt complementa (contraries are complementary) indicated his strong suspicion that the complementarity interpretation of quantum mechanics might someday be expanded into a generalized principle. It now appears that such a principle has been found in metastability...
Systems and Levels Studied with Coordina...
Between components of an organism
Bimanual coordination
Interlimb coordination
Within-limb multijoint coordination
Between an organism and the environment
Visually specified coordination patterns
Patterns of auditory-motor coordination
Between organisms themselves
Visual coupling between people
CD of...
Coordination Dynamics of the Horse~Rider...
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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 the field of coordination dynamics itself is an example of the “CD...
TCN of CD: Self-Organization and Agency...
by J. A. Scott Kelso pdf
Twenty years of empirical and theoretical research has demonstrated that basic forms of biological coordination arise and change due to self-organizing synergetic processes. Here we suggest, using facts and ideas from brain research and quantum measurement theory, that metastability...
TCN of CD - B. F. Skinner Lecture Series...
The Complementary Nature of Coordination Dynamics
by J. A. Scott Kelso
LECTURE ABSTRACT Despite all the successes of contemporary neuroscience in alleviating the many neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases that afflict us, we–us human beings–have not changed in any fundamental sense....
The Coordination Dynamics of Economic De...
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by Olivier Oullier, Alan P. Kirman and J. A. Scott Kelso, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol 16 (6) Dec 2008
ABSTRACT
The basic reciprocity between individual parts and collective organization constitutes a key scientific question spanning the biological and social...
The Squiggles of Coordination Dynamics P...
INTRODUCTION
The following is a list of complementary pairs, or squiggles, found in the science of coordination dynamics, as we published it in TCN (2006). In TCN, we refer to them alternatively as the complementary pairs of coordination dynamics (CP of CD) and also the base set. The list is still considered...
The Squiggles of Neuroscience...
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...
What is CP~CD ?...
CP~CD is an abbreviation for the squiggle, complementary pair ~ coordination dynamics. It communicates the reconciliation of the philosophy of complementary pairs and the science of complementary pairs, namely coordination dynamics. If one were to suggest that complementary pairs are important windows...
The Squiggle Sense of William Blake...
“Without contraries no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.”
- William Blake (1757-1827), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
The Squiggle Sense of Genetics~Dynamics...
by Richard Strohman
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 relationship to public health, to the mechanisms by which...
Toward a Complementary Neuroscience: Met...
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 dynamics we show explicitly that metastability is a result of a symmetry...
Understanding the Mind...
ABSTRACT In a classic paper written with Warren McCulloch, Arthur Iberall characterized the living system in terms of its “marginal instability” as a result of which the motor system is “plunged into intermittent search modes.” The function of the nervous system in Iberall’s view-with all its...
The clockwise~anticlockwise Dancer...
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TSS - This popular illusion video is most often used as an “either/or test” of “left vs. right” brain people: “If an observer perceives the dancer spinning clockwise, they are a ‘right-brain’ person, and if counterclockwise, ‘left-brained’ person.”...
Squiggle Poetry...
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 flight~pearchings,
integrating~segregating boundary~domains,
it’s...
Speaking in Squiggles...
“If I, for instance, speak the two words ‘body’ ‘mind’ together as written here, it is ambiguous what I mean, since I could be saying body, mind, or body/mind, or body-mind or bodymind. And depending on who you are talking to, each of these variations can convey quite different meanings.
Contrariwise,...
The Complementary Nature and Bohr’...
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The Complementary Nature highlights the essential role complementary pairs like time~space, particle~wave and body~mind play in nature, and the importance of their interpretation. With so many religions, philosophies, and scientific discoveries dependent upon them, one might assume that there must be...
The Squiggle Sense of Wolfgang Pauli...
“To us, the only acceptable point of view appears to be one that recognizes both sides of reality—the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical—as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously.”
(1952) - Writings on Physics and Philosophy, Springer (1994)
“Shall...
The Complementary Nature - Review by Ola...
The division of our world (natural and social) into distinct contraries or opposites has become almost universal practice in most fields of human endeavor and inquiry, including science. Undeniably, imposing such divisions on space and time, wave and particle, order and chaos, action and perception,...
TCN Review by Arthur Fabel...
THE COMPLEMENTARY NATURE - J. A. Scott Kelso and David A. Engstrøm. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. ISBN:0-262-11291-4. 2006. Reviewed by Arthur Fabel.
The 2000 United States presidential election was decided by some 500 votes out of 100 million, evenly split between conservative and liberal,...
Men’s Brains vs. Women’s Bra...
Here is a very entertaining and instructive example of what we could call the x vs. y mode or x versus y mode of thinking. In the appropriate context (like this video) the x vs. y mode can be very funny, informative and insightful: sometimes it seems as though men think in boxes, are discrete, unconnected...
The Squiggle Sense of Fritjov Capra...
“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 itself the opposites are unified and transcended…”
Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization ...
BOOK REVIEW
SUMMARY
For the past twenty years Scott Kelso’s research has focused on extending the physical concepts of self-organization and the mathematical tools of nonlinear dynamics to understand how human beings (and human brains) perceive, intend, learn, control, and coordinate complex behaviors.
In...
Reaction-Anticipation Transitions in Hum...
Engstrøm, D. A., Kelso, J. A. S. and Holroyd, T.
ABSTRACT
We investigated the hypothesis that reaction and anticipation in human perceptual-motor performance are two coordinative modes of a single pattern-forming dynamical system, rather than separate behaviors. Subjects coordinated the onset of finger...
A=A...
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by Ernst Pöppel
The most important equation for me is the ’sentence of identity’, A=A. One might say that this is not even an equation. Obviously A=A. for a neuroscientist, however, the concept of identity cannot be taken for granted. How is it possible that I see a face now and that I see the same...
David A. Engstrøm...
“ending to beginning, beginning into end, yin into the yang, yang into the yin,
in into the out, out into the in, sometimes I get so dizzy I cannot stand the spin,
I’ve got to leave the circle, leave the circle behind…”
-excerpt from Song for Zeno, 1999
Biography
David A. Engstrøm received...
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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