Retrospective 2024-20

This is a retrospective of week 20, 2024 (2024-05-13–2024-05-19).

As mentioned last week, I’m currently reading Biology Revisioned by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris. Harman and Sahtouris raise important questions about living systems and how to deal with self-organization. This has further implications for dealing with organizations and societies. Willis Harman mentions Margaret Wheatley’s eight principles by the end of the book.

Christopher Bache, The Living Classroom.

I’ve also started re-reading The Living Classroom by Christopher Bache. It’s a book which I read eight or nine years ago. Bache attempts to understand the fields of consciousness that were connecting him with his students. He experienced a porosity of the mind, the field nature of individual and collective consciousness, and how individuals create a field when they come together and focus their intention.

Christopher Bache describes how his access to the student’s mind deepened over time and began to zero in, it seemed, on places where they were hurt, wounded, or blocked. And so Bache developed a teaching with an awareness that his mind had an active influence on the minds of his students, taking responsibility of this mind-to-mind field effect. The back story, which Christopher Bache doesn’t mention in the book, is that he was doing a psychedelic practice in private.

This week, I’ve also listened to a lifestream event with Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram traces the history combinators and how they related to computing. One question is whether the S combinator alone is computationally reducible or not. This reminds me of Robert Rosen who spent part of his career studying the history of science. Rosen’s conclusion was that we don’t have the tools to understand life. Computability imposes very strong limitations on entailment. What if combinators cannot encompass the rich entailment required by life?

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