THE SQUIGGLE SENSE BLOG
The Squiggle Sense is a blog magazine and online study resource dedicated to the following problems and research program to comprehend them:
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 life just as they have for centuries. What can we do to change that, to change ourselves? What if you could tell or show a person something really important about how the brain works that would change the way they look at things? Research and modeling of brain coordination dynamics has revealed a new metastable mode of brain functioning in which the well-known tendencies of specialized brain regions to express their autonomy (segregation) coexist with tendencies for individual regions to work together as an integrated system. This view of the brain shows us how contraries can be reconciled, promotes the logic of ‘both/and’ and may help erase the arti cial boundaries we have erected in all walks of life.
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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