Category: embodiment
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Join me for the Natural Resonance Festival!
I will present on embodied cognition and the cerebellar transform, through movement and music, in a community discussion panel: April 13 9am PST This video is a quick meditation on my topic… It’s a $10 ticket to the festival: https://www.naturalresonance.world/store/p/festival-ticket-2026 Schedule: https://www.naturalresonance.world/2026-nrf-events
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The tripartite synapse and the tonic neural tripod of mental balance.
The tripartite synapse and the tonic neural tripod of mental balance. What we had always thought about the synapse, since Sherrington gave it its name, meaning “to grasp together” (syn-apse) Is that neurons communicated between each other in pairs. They were binary. Each neuron has thousands of synapses located along the branching dendrites, facilitating pattern…
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Where do you know the meaning of these words?: Self attention, the cerebellar transform, and the sensitive bony landmarks of the proprioceptive core. Anatomy is full of homologies, elements in a repeating pattern that is self validating, self evidencing, and generative. It should come as no surprise that a matching revolution follows quickly on the…
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The Generative Core
The Generative Core The generative core is a characteristic shared by all living organisms and is a part of the perceptual model of life. While everything including inanimate matter, from a rock to a river or even a pair of pants and a tuba, all have an outside and an inside, only complex living systems…
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Biomechanical enlightenment and my hip surgery.
Biomechanical Enlightenment and My Hip Surgery I had my second hip surgery Tuesday. It was a profound violation of my body. My bone was replaced with a metal joint. In a sense it is a profound attack but of course it is for the purpose of healing a part of me that was unrepairable. It…
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The tonic cerebellar system and the tonic motor system compose the tonic functional system: proprioception
The tonic cerebellar system and the tonic motor system compose the tonic functional system: proprioception If the cerebellum performs a single basic function across all of its modules, the universal cerebellar transform, then it stands to reason that we should be able to find an indication of this in its motoric substrate. If we observe…
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The purpose of a physics of life
The purpose of a physics of life is the understanding of life, of living systems, and the development of a perceptual and cognitive system able to appreciate such richly integrated information. From what we understand about the role of cerebellum in the creation of internal models we can imagine that such rich somatic concepts would…
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Perceptual shift as paradigm shift
Perceptual shift as paradigm shift In order to think about active inference at the level of the mortal substrate or good biomimesis, it helps if we can talk plainly. We can think of active inference as a cognitive function as something that perhaps Sherlock Holmes might be good at, but insight rather than deduction. Let’s…
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Biomechanical Enlightenment and Physical Homeostasis
Biomechanical Enlightenment and Physical Homeostasis Why is the motoric anatomy of the proprioceptive system so important? Physical homeostasis produces a corresponding neural metastability in the brain, beginning with cerebellar function, that shifts the oscillations of the brain to a much higher level of integration and coordination. We can call this biomechanical enlightenment. A transient form…
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If you are serious about our situation…
If you are serious about our situation, you must consider the need for and possibility of a perceptual paradigm shift. We have many ways to discuss this scientifically and rationally: hemispheric neglect syndrome, dysmetria of thought, dysconnection hypothesis, evolutionary mismatch, kinesthetic dystonia, postural collapse syndrome, exteroceptive bias… We are all seeing things a little off…
Three Bones Theory 