Embodied Cognition And Collective Intelligence

Embodied Cognition and Collective Intelligence

it is very clear that in nature there is an evolutionary drive to greater and greater levels of complexity—but not without harmony, integration and, sustainability. From this perspective it would seem inevitable that something like collective intelligence would eventually emerge in the course of human cultural evolution. Indeed we can already identify in the ecosystem and in the body a functional…

Embodied Cognition and Collective Intelligence

A Handful of Bones

I teach a handful of bones along the axial line, part of the myofascial synergy called the deep core by Thomas Myers. It’s our postural center. The bones are central, prominent coordination centers facilitating interoception, stability and balance. They are shaped like grips and levers and are practically speaking bony servomechanisms for co-operating or conscious participation in our deeper…

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A Prospective Guide for Tea Monks

https://substack.com/@peacefulrevolutionary/note/p-140415619?r=2cl819&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action From the wonderful Substack article by the Peaceful Revolutionary. (What follows is my comment on this wonderful post on becoming a Tea Monk on Substack by the Peaceful Revolutionary.) I have decided to become a Muscle Monk. I use capital letters sometimes because it is very…

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A Perceptual Ecosystem

A Perceptual Ecosystem Truth is a perceptual ecosystem and it is sexy. It is not something that you possess in your head or that you argue about with words and symbols. That old idea is a foolish and youthful arrogance we are all guilty of. Interoception within our own bodies is the neurological basis of our animal intelligence. Truth exists within the world and our bodies, not in our heads.…

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It is important to remember

It is important to remember The body is self healing, self balancing, self directed, and self reproducing. It does all of this but not without self-awareness. If the body is like this then all of life is like this and so is the Earth. The body cannot heal itself from overwhelming trauma and perhaps neither can Earth. But our ability to heal the ability to heal is something that we should not…

A Grounded and Radical Hope

A Grounded and Radical Hope An appreciative response to a Deep Adaptation Forum post by Dan Vie and ChatAI: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ZCLwGYYkCdX2zQu4/? It is irrational in my opinion to expect that more technology will solve the problems that it has created. This is because any new technocracy is little different from any old technocracy.  In my view there is a vast untapped reservoir…