CONCEPT – The picture provides one view of our study of the complementary nature, that is entitled, ‘The Four Aspects’. The Four Aspects are: (1) The Squiggle Sense, abbreviated TSS (2) The Complementary Nature, abbreviated TCN, (3) Complementary Pairs, abbreviated CP, and are also called squiggles (4) Coordination Dynamics, abbreviated CD. Take a look at the picture, a tetrahedran with the four aspects...
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, red and blue states, rural or urban, and so on. The 2004 election was similar, and recently in Germany the vote for...
SCIENCE – 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 be totally different and apparently mutually exclusive descriptions of the quantum behavior, they are not...
J. A. SCOTT KELSO -”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 in the underlying coordination dynamics is crucial for the creation and annihilation of meaningful information. Such...
LECTURE ABSTRACT – by J. A. Scott Kelso This lecture comes in three “movements” and arises out of a new book (Kelso, J. A. S. & D. A. Engstrom, The Complementary Nature, (2006 MIT Press). The first movement explores the central role of ubiquitous “contrarieties” in the history of ideas (both in philosophy and science). We refer to all such contrarieties as “complementary pairs”...
STACEY SINGER – Palm Beach Post Staff Writer – 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 to see the living brain, to map its intricate geography and learn about its chemistry. But understanding how it actually works raises questions for Florida Atlantic University Professor J.A. Scott Kelso about...
J. A. SCOTT KELSO - “…we need a science that embraces not only the extremes, but also the vast world of the in-between (Kelso and Engstrøm 2005). That science is emerging and has gathered a good deal of impetus in the last 25 years or so. In the literature, it has a name: it is called coordination dynamics. Ask yourself: Why do we talk about “instead of” and “versus” all the time? Why do we partition the world...
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...
