Blogs about: Gregory Bateson
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John Lennon's Dream: A World Free of Mental Boxes and Mental Fences
What divides humankind from one another are mental boxes and mental fences that have possessed and controlled millions (or billions) of minds. Before communication among us can redeem us from this tra… more →
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Systems Theory - Primer Part II
Dorianne wrote 1 week ago: Cybernetics The second major classical systems theory is cybernetics, which originated from a cross- … more →
John Lennon's Dream: A World Free of Mental Boxes and Mental Fences
apintalisayon wrote 2 months ago: What divides humankind from one another are mental boxes and mental fences that have possessed and c … more →
In Times of Crisis Philosophy is Not a Luxury: Part 2
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Jeff Carreira wrote 5 months ago: We have become very familiar, perhaps over-familiar, with the word crisis. Everyday we hear about th … more →
It Takes 2 to Bless 1
jimb2b wrote 5 months ago: The other day I wrote in my Facebook status line: “It takes 2 to bless 1”. A few people emailed me a … more →
Week 2: Subjectivity in Filmmaking
jillizabeth wrote 8 months ago: When Mat spoke about the subjective and objective in lecture this week, it really resonated with me … more →
William James and The Absolute
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Jeff Carreira wrote 8 months ago: In my last post I tried to evoke a sense of how far personally and culturally human beings might hav … more →
Practical Exercise #15: Ingredients of Effective Group Action
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apintalisayon wrote 9 months ago: Let us go through an exercise of constructing a mental model. To ensure that we follow the wisdom of … more →
Q16- Seeing World Problems: Building(?) on Gregory Bateson
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apintalisayon wrote 9 months ago: We have constructed mental models inside our heads about the world around us, about the people we kn … more →
The History of Trauma, the Trauma of History, #2
frankseeburger wrote 11 months ago: 12/22/08 The very short entry from my philosophical journal posted below is the second of a series p … more →
Meditation, Mandalas and the Brain
spacesuityoga wrote 12 months ago: Greetings readers, a follow up on questions concerning choosing a visual meditation practice: First … more →
Do President-elect Obama’s Pakistan specialists suppose Maulana Azad, Dr Zakir Hussain, Sheikh Abdullah were Pakistanis (or that Sheikh Mujib wanted to remain one)?
drsubrotoroy wrote 1 year ago: Once upon a time, half a century ago, the son of a Pakistani president married the daughter of an Am … more →
Entropy (or "En-TRIP-py")
santitafarella wrote 1 year ago: Question: Why do things so frequently end up in a way that we call “messed up”? Answer ( … more →
The Pause That Refreshes The Blog
ducksanddrakes wrote 1 year ago: Hey, it’s not every day that you get to use the word “persiflage” successfully. G … more →
The Structure of the Universe
snailguru wrote 1 year ago: It’s official – we’ve been looking in the wrong place. The poet Muriel Rukeyser has declared, “The u … more →
The Guardian on Bateson
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llwynn wrote 1 year ago: Saturday’s Guardian UK profiles Gregory Bateson and his views on art, mental illness, and whet … more →
The Hole at the "Center of Vision"
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kvond wrote 1 year ago: Spinoza as Seer In a sense, if we are to understand Spinoza’s optical influences we have to co … more →
Why our worlds get into a muddle...
A.V.O wrote 1 year ago: A thought on how we sometimes contruct our worlds, even our spiritual ones…. “Father: Al … more →
The Screen and the Prison: Lacan and Manovich on the Subject
Bonni Rambatan wrote 1 year ago: Lev Manovich provided a great reading of the screen’s history in his The Language of New Media … more →
Misunderstood
mythoughtbubble wrote 1 year ago: I don’t know about you but I think its safe to say that we’ve all been misunderstood fro … more →
