Author: Jan Höglund
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Retrospective 2024-15
This is a retrospective of week 15, 2024 (2024-04-08–2024-04-14). This week, I finished reading VISTA: Life and getting where you want to be by Elisabet Sahtouris and I started reading the following two books: I also listened to Heather Ensworth’s interview with Elisabet Sahtouris this week. Elisabet talked, among other things, about her new book:…
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Retrospective 2024-13
This is a retrospective of week 13, 2024 (2024-03-25–2024-03-31). This week, I started reading The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson. They emphasize the importance of direct experience in a complex and entagled (Robert Rosen would have said entailed) world: Ultimately, we cannot forgo relying…
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Book Review: Co-Intelligence
Introduction Co-Intelligence: The Applied Wisdom of Wholeness, Interconnectedness, and Co-Creativity by Tom Atlee is an exploration of the co-intelligence that arises from wholeness, interconnectedness, and creativity. Co-intelligence has been the focus of Tom Atlee’s work for over 30 years. The book contains a rich set of materials on co-intelligence and how to use it. What…
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Retrospective 2024-12
This is a retrospective of week 12, 2024 (2024-03-18–2024-03-24). I finished reading Co-Intelligence by Tom Atlee this week. We are all (more or less) co-intelligently participating in what is going to happen next. Here is my book review. Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language inspired Tom Atlee to create two pattern languages, one on group process…
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Retrospective 2024-10
This is a retrospective of week 10, 2024 (2024-03-04–2024-03-10). I finished reading Anticipatory Systems by Robert Rosen last week. I am currently working on a review of this book. Here is my review of Rosen’s book Essays on Life Itself for those who might be interested. I listened to a podcast with Dean Radin this…
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Retrospective 2024-09
This is a retrospective of week 9, 2024 (2024-02-26–2024-03-03). I finished reading Robert Rosen’s Anticipatory Systems (AS) this week. Below are some quotes from AS and from podcast I’ve listened to during the week (my emphasis in italics): Rosen’s scientific legacy is the result of scientific commitment that excluded compromise as a path to acceptance…