Category: Retrospectives
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Retrospective 2024-36
This is a retrospective of week 36, 2024 (2024-09-02–2024-09-08). I’ve read Overcoming the Newtonian paradigm: The unfinished project of theoretical biology from a Schellingian perspective by Arran Gare this week. Arran Gare writes: “The concept of an atom did not emerge from any analysis offered by Newton; rather, he simply presupposed particles without structure and…
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Retrospective 2024-35
This is a retrospective of week 35, 2024 (2024-08-20–2024-09-01). This week, I’ve spent a couple of days in the northern part of Sweden. I visited Umeå and Skellefteå. Bonnitta Roy has written an interesting essay about Christopher Alexander on Generating a Living World (part 1 & part 2). Roy is one of few who sees…
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Retrospective 2024-34
This is a retrospective of week 34, 2024 (2024-08-19–2024-08-25). I finished reading Karin Bojs’ book last week and have continued reflecting on its content. The question I’m struggling with is: Why is the left hemispere of the brain taking over again and again? We are so easily are caught up in the left hemisphere’s re-presentation…
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Retrospective 2024-33
This is a retrospective of week 33, 2024 (2024-08-12–2024-08-18). This week, I have read Min europiska familj: de senaste 54000 åren by Karin Bojs. The book is in Swedish and is about Bojs’ family for the past 54,000 years. The first part of the book is more interesting than the last part. The last part…
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Retrospective 2024-32
This is a retrospective of week 32, 2024 (2024-08-05–2024-08-11). I’ve started reading two books this week: Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor, and Christ Way, Buddha Way: Jesus as Wisdom Teacher and a Zen Perspective on His Teachings by Tim Langdell. Charles Taylor writes the following about his book Cosmic…
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Retrospective 2024-31
This is a retrospective of week 31, 2024 (2024-07-29–2024-08-04). This week I’ve been reading two books: I’ve also read the following articles about generative AI: I found the following quote of Iain McGilchrist in a mail 2024-08-02 from Eric Schaetzle to the McGilchrist Irregulars: I don’t think practices in themselves will ever achieve what needs…
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Retrospective 2024-30
This is a retrospective of week 30, 2024 (2024-07-22–2024-07-28). This week I’ve started reading How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball. I have also listened to Philip Ball’s conversation with Iain McGilchrist which focuses on the book. Philip Ball writes (my emphasis in italics): Fundamentally, this new view of…
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Retrospective 2024-29
This is a retrospective of week 29, 2024 (2024-07-15–2024-07-21). Ulrika, my grandchild’s mother, sent a beautiful quote this week: Before a child speaks, it sings.Before they write, they paint.As soon as they stand, they dance.Art is the basis of human expression.—Phylicia Rashad I search the web and found a research article in the British Journal…
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Retrospective 2024-28
This is a retrospective of week 28, 2024 (2024-07-08–2024-07-14). I have read Timothy Snyder this week, who writes: Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won’t. —Timothy Snyder, The Strongman Fantasy https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy At least, the fantasy goes, the strongman will get things done. But…
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Retrospective 2024-27
This is a retrospective of week 27, 2024 (2024-07-01–2024-07-07). This week I’ve finished reading The Map of Consciousness Explained: A Proven Energy Scale to Actualize Your Ultimate Potential by David R. Hawkins. I wonder how the consciousness-calibration research was done? As mentioned last week, there’s positive as well as negative bias in the consciousness calibration.…