Author: Franco Orsucci
On time of balance
UncategorizedFeeling the balance in constant transitioning while getting a sense of standing on a grounding time.
Some inspiring quotes…
“And something’s always missing, a glass, a breeze, a phrase,
And the more one invents and enjoys, the more life hurts.”
Fernando Pessoa
“It must not be claimed that anyone can sense time by
itself apart from the movement of things.”
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
“But they will teach us that Eternity is the Standing still of the Present
Time, a Nunc-stans (as the schools call it); which neither they, nor any
else understand, no more than they would a Hic-stans for an Infinite
greatness of Place.”
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, IV, 46
The specious present, is “the prototype of all conceived times…
the short duration of which we are immediately and incessantly sensible”
William James
“From Aither, Time made a shining egg: the progeny of Aither and Chaos.”
Protogonos Theogony
Perhaps the constantly shifting balance between presence and transformation is the essence of life.
It reveals its beauty, induces contemplation and reverie, provoking the mind as it enthrals emotion.
Quanta of embodied cognition
UncategorizedAfter my studies on synchronization in language, conversation and neurophysiology, I am now approaching their integration.
On one side this implies the probabilistic, quantum field approach already implicit in works around Mind Force.
On the other side, this follows the route opened by Francisco Varela in neurophenomenology. This will highlight the scaling from neural events to the microphenomenology of experience and human interactions.
This also extends the work of Walter J Freeman on cinematic frames of neurodynamics. It is connecting it to meditative quanta of experience, embodied cognition, and the shared present of Daniel Stern.
Further exploration on this ongoing with collaborators of my network lab.
An interesting matter to be studied is the possible undelying continuity below these quanta of experience, like ripples on the surface of a quiet pond, or waves over the stream of a river or the sea.
Entropy
UncategorizedNow starting to edit a special issue of Entropy with Wolfgang Tschacher.
We are editing a Special Issue on “Complexity Science in Human Change: Research, Models, Clinical Applications” to be published in the journal Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300, IF 2.494, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy).
Entropy is an interdisciplinary journal of information dynamics studies, which publishes articles on complex systems, self-organization, networks, pattern formation and recognition, and related subjects. A short prospectus of the volume is given at the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/Clinical_Applications
Entropy
UncategorizedNow editing with Wolfgang Tschacher a special issue of Entropy.
We are editing a Special Issue on “Complexity Science in Human Change: Research, Models, Clinical Applications” to be published in the journal Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300, IF 2.494, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy).
Entropy is an interdisciplinary journal of information dynamics studies, which publishes articles on complex systems, self-organization, networks, pattern formation and recognition, and related subjects.
A short prospectus of the volume is given at the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/Clinical_Applications
The Journey Begins
UncategorizedThanks for joining me!
Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
