all my writing
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On Awareness
This is a response to a post by Rufus Pollock: On AwarenessIt is important to understand awareness neurologically and in terms of our sensory motor system, not just spiritually or abstractly. We can redefine awareness. To do so, we must oppose mentalism at every step. Awareness is physical, neurological, anatomical and existential. Our interoceptive sensory… Read more
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Collapse! What is collapse?
This video was inspired by the mission statement of collapseclub.com. They are working on coping strategies for the civilization or ecological collapse that we are all sensing. My focus is on the body. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/nBf2HqsjWOI?si=HhhaJSrHVPQ6WdDQ Read more
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Social Fascia: How to heal the social fabric from within, not from above
How to Heal the Social Fabric From Within, Not From Above. ”Fabrica” was the name of first modern anatomical text, by Andreas Vesalius, published in 1543. This was the same year Copernicus published his astronomical text, “Revolutionibus.” Fabric and all the areas of complex living systems is the domain of the somatic tradition of natural… Read more
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The Collapse
The Collapse The Great Mismatch Paradigm Shift The Polycrisis The Metacrisis Apocalypse Apocalypse means revelation in the original Greek. There is something big about catastrophe that gives us an insight into the larger order of things. While we used to think about gods and demons, now we think about epidemiology, evolution, and ecology. There is… Read more
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There are some very good reasons
The current status of the poly crisis requires more committed collective action. We all really need to work together don’t we? There are some very good reasons why that action should be physical. One is the importance of the sensory motor system to our understanding of the mind and brain. The other is the promise… Read more
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Science has become a religion
A mental solution to our problems is one of our biggest problems. We have forgotten that reductionism, objectification and mathematization are simply methodological choices that we made in the course of the development of modern reason and are not ultimate truths about reality. Epistemological violence means that the further we progress down this path of… Read more