Jan Höglund's Blog

Category: Retrospectives

  • Retrospective 2014-14

    This is a retrospective of week 14, 2024 (2024-04-01–2024-04-07). My first grandchild, Alice, was born on April 2nd. Below is my drawing of her hand. I am moved to tears when I see her and I am grateful that everything went well. Here is also another drawing of Alice. I found the following quote the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Retrospective 2024-11

    This is a retrospective of week 11, 2024 (2024-03-11–2024-03-17). As I mentioned last week, I’m currently working on a review of Robert Rosen’s book Anticipatory Systems. This week, I’ve started reading Bjørn Ekeberg’s book on Metaphysical Experiments. Ekeberg’s focus is on the metaphysics of cosmology and the key assumptions that underlie the mathematical treatment of…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Retrospective 2024-08

    This is a retrospective of week 8, 2024 (2024-02-19–2024-02-25). I have been reading Anticipatory Systems by Robert Rosen this week. The book is an inquiry into what makes anticipation a characteristic of the living.1 Rosen explains: We seek to encode natural systems [N] into formal ones [F, such that] the inferences or theorems we can…

  • Retrospective 2024-07

    This is a retrospective of week 7, 2024 (2024-02-12–2024-02-18). This week I completed my review of Leanne Whitney’s book Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali. If pure consciousness is fundamental to the structure of the universe, then not only depth psychology, but science itself, needs a “a major conceptual revolution”1. I will now immerse myself in…

  • Retrospective 2024-06

    This is a retrospective of week 6, 2024 (2024-02-05–2024-02-11). I started reading Max De Pree this week: He fostered the idea of an inclusive corporation, one in which all voices are heard. … He encouraged open communication in the organization. He was often heard to say “Err on the side of over-communication.”1 I also started…

  • Retrospective 2024-05

    This is a retrospective of week 5, 2024 (2024-01-29–2024-02-04). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I finished reading Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney this week. I found the book very interesting and will write a book review in the coming weeks. Whitney writes, Classical Yoga methodology, through the total involution…