Here is an enticement for the upcoming seminar on Erik Davis and Diane Pasulka beginning Tuesday next week (you can register here). I think there is a wonderful web of relations and analogies among 1. the strange realities we’ve been exploring lately, 2. complexity theory of the kind explored by Neil Theise, and 3. the philosophy of Henri Bergson. I’m way out ahead of my skis here, but my current plan is to spend eight weeks on High Wierdness and alien encounters in Pasulka’s broad sense, and then launch into an extended exploration of Bergson. I’ve already talked a little bit in class about complexity theories, which I was introduced to at the Santa Fe Institute in 1990-93, and of my enthusiasm for Theise’s book. All this material hangs together for me in ways that I’m a bit foggy about at the moment, but which I hope we can articulate more clearly in the coming weeks.
High Weirdness, Complexity and Henri Bergson
High Weirdness, Complexity and Henri Bergson
High Weirdness, Complexity and Henri Bergson
Here is an enticement for the upcoming seminar on Erik Davis and Diane Pasulka beginning Tuesday next week (you can register here). I think there is a wonderful web of relations and analogies among 1. the strange realities we’ve been exploring lately, 2. complexity theory of the kind explored by Neil Theise, and 3. the philosophy of Henri Bergson. I’m way out ahead of my skis here, but my current plan is to spend eight weeks on High Wierdness and alien encounters in Pasulka’s broad sense, and then launch into an extended exploration of Bergson. I’ve already talked a little bit in class about complexity theories, which I was introduced to at the Santa Fe Institute in 1990-93, and of my enthusiasm for Theise’s book. All this material hangs together for me in ways that I’m a bit foggy about at the moment, but which I hope we can articulate more clearly in the coming weeks.