Retrospective 2020-30

This is a summary of my painting, reading, and writing last week.

Painting

I painted this, which is from Trådarön, Sweden.

Reading

I have continued to immerse myself in Norm and Skye Hirst’s writings:

• Norm Hirst, Norm Hirst, Abstract: Organismic Biology.
• Norm and Skye Hirst, UP Close and Personal to Our Medical Health Care System: Experiencing First Hand the dangers and possibilities of medical care in the USA.
• Norm Hirst, Biology Must Become a Science.
• Norm Hirst, A Research and Mediation Center.
• Norm Hirst, Hypotheses Explained.

I read the following articles:

• Jane Carroll, Wholeness, Timelessness and Unfolding Meaning: An interview from the archives with physicist and philosopher David Bohm.
• Otto Scharmer, Imagination Becomes an Organ of Perception: Conversation with Henri Bortoft.
• Michael Mehaffy, A Conversation with Christopher Alexander.

I started reading the following books:

• David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order.
• Alfred North Whitehead, Essays in Science and Philosophy.
• Simon Robinson and Maria Moraes Robinson, Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter. I read this book in 2014. Here is a succinct review.

Writing

I wrote this post (in Swedish), which is a reaction to all talk about evidence in relation to covid-19. Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) relies on an analytical approach. Evidence determined at the population level is grossly general. This way of collecting evidence is taken from the research of lifeless nature. The health care system would gain both in depth and humanity if it was complemented by Goethe’s way of science.

Goethe’s significance for a science of the living, organic world is comparable to Newton’s contribution to physics and the science of lifeless nature.