The idea of mind as a circulating intelligence
that we live in and live through is still
a scandalous proposition to the science of our time.
Yet that proposition if accepted as
scientifically reputable and worthy of research
woud represent the ultimate revolution
in our thinking and living.
Quite literally everything we do every day and in every field
would be dramatically altered if we made use
of that simple formulation of consciousness.
For a start, the health of our body would be
quite naturally recognised as the health of our mind.
The separation between each of us and
between us and the environment would be no longer seen.
We would see our mind everywhere and in everyone.
That we are each generating for ourselves our own reality
moment to moment, would be obvious instead of contentious.
We would realise the ridiculous impossibilty of being
just a set of computations packaged in DNA
We could see at last why our lives don’t ‘add up’
and can’t be ‘figured out’.
It would be clear why ‘shit happens’
and why ‘love makes the world go round’.
Mind as motion is not just a powerful concept.
It also a practical one.
It allows a quantum shift in our approach to daily living
when we apply it to our actions and individual awareness.
This is why some of us are not willing to wait for a science catch up.
We want to use this principle now.
“Why wait?” we say. “Use it for yourself. Use it today.”
To do that it is necessary to be ‘mind centred’ rather than ‘brain centred’.
Today we are culturally immersed in a computational
and brain centred way of life.
This is despite the fact that other models for
thinking, evolving and living are available.
Mind as motion is a philosophically and mathematically
sound proposition being explored by only a few of our thinkers.
But it is being explored.
MIND AS MOTION: EXPLORATIONS IN
THE DYNAMICS OF COGNITION / Robert F. Port
& Timothy van Gelder - MIT Press Mass.1995
TIME SCALE DYNAMICS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF
AN EMBODIED COGNITION - Esther Thelan
If you like your science, then check out the research
from Esther Thelan and others at Indiana University.
Esther Thelan is a Developmental Psychologist. This research
does not just support brain / nervous system / environment unity,
but also explains it through modelling it as a ‘dynamic’ system.
The mathematics of dynamical systems, through this modelling
gives us ‘mind as motion’.
