THE SQUIGGLE SENSE MISSION
To provide an evolving online resource for the study and appreciation of the squiggle sense, a sixth sense of the complementary nature, and its philosophical~scientific grounding in coordination dynamics, the science of coordination.’
To present the online material in an interesting, accessible, compelling and hopefully entertaining fashion, and at numerous levels of detail and complexity. Why?
We wish to reach the widest possible spectrum of readers, with different educational backgrounds.
To strive for a healthy, intentional amount of informational redundancy. That is, the same ideas should be presented in different ways and levels, and different ideas and levels should presented the same way. Why?
Because people learn differently, and arrive here at this site with different levels of experience and education- different levels of awareness.
To inform and hopefully inspire the widest possible audience to learn about and employ the squiggle sense within them.
Why?
We believe that the squiggle sense is a gateway to enlightenment, one that can be used to gain a novel and beneficial worldview. This in turn can be used to generate novel and beneficial insights, innovations and policies.
The challenge we have made for ourselves is to not only to define and characterize the squiggle sense of the complementary nature, but ultimately to illustrate the power of the squiggle sense with real illustrations/applications that touch people, that connect to a truly diverse audience. That is to say, The Squiggle Sense blog magazine isn’t just philosophy~science for philosophers and scientists, but real modern day applications of the squiggle sense, the sixth sense of the complementary nature.
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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