DAVID A. ENGSTRØM - 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 self-organizing~informational dynamics, the coordination dynamics of its...

J. A. SCOTT KELSO – “It seems that many aspects of modern life as well as the people who talk about them are in need of tildizing. Take the Gulf oil spill for example. As reported the other day “There’s so much noise out there saying the Gulf is dead or the Gulf will come back easily, but the truth is in the middle”.  Invariably the either/or mode of inquiry fails or is just the first...

J. A. SCOTT KELSO & 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, empirically-based scientific theory of how the polarized world and the world in between can be reconciled. They nominate the squiggle (~), as the symbolic punctuation for reconciled...