Information Exchange
A few days ago, someone on Twitter wrote about a Youtube video of an interview with David Bohm, after he had send some quotes from Bohm that caught my attention. I followed the link to the Youtube...
View ArticleIf you Know All the Views, you will Know the Whole
In this post I want to upload and transcribe the fourth part of the interview with David Bohm. In the previous part he talked about why it is important to distinguish information from energy. How...
View ArticleIs our World Dualistic after all?
This is the third time I am going to upload the same video on this blog. The reason for that is that I think this video is extremely important. I think it gives a way out of a very old problem. The...
View ArticlePatterns of Meaning that Develop over Time
Recently I was thinking about information. How ‘real’ is our knowledge? My thoughts on that went into many directions (as usual) but I kept coming back to something the writer David Foster Wallace...
View ArticleThought is about Becoming, not Being
A few weeks ago I got a book from the library that really fascinated me. And especially one chapter was so interesting that I wanted to write several blogposts about it. But while doing that, I found...
View ArticleAutonomy, Mastery and Purpose
This weekend I saw some very interesting videos on Youtube. One of those videos Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us, was so interesting that I wanted to take a closer look. So I...
View ArticleCreativity and the Need for Free Space
Money prevents creativity. This was one of the conclusions in the previous post. Another post was about something else that prevents creativity: the need for approval. Both conclusions were based on...
View ArticleFrom Aesthetics to An-Aesthetics
Last week I saw another video of Ken Robinson. He had a TED-talk some years ago about how schools kill creativity, which I watched several times because I thought it was great. Well, he had another...
View ArticleFocus vs Context and Language vs Psyche
A few weeks ago I came across a blogpost about a book called The Master and his Emissary. The writer of that post thought the book was very important, maybe even the book of the century. In that same...
View ArticleThe Difference between Thinking and Thought
Recently I found a real treasure! At least that is what I considered the video that I found of David Bohm. It is a video where he talked about his life, recorded about two years before his death....
View ArticleCreativity Grows on Insight and Understanding
Click here to view the embedded video. Creativity has an inherent order that grows on insight and understanding. It has to develop according to that. It might need rules and boundaries to keep growing...
View ArticleCreating Something New Together
Click here to view the embedded video. David Bohm on Dialogue: If the meaning of communication is to convey information or knowledge from one person to another, then the essence of communication is ‘to...
View ArticleA Coherent Approach to Reality
Click here to view the embedded video. David Bohm on Coherence and Consciousness: If we can have a coherent approach to reality, then reality will respond coherently to us. But nature has been...
View ArticleMore Power Needs More Coherence
Click here to view the embedded video. David Bohm on Power and Incoherence: We cannot grasp the totality but we can have a feeling for the whole. We can have the attitude of not restricting ourselves...
View ArticleArt and the Context of Society
Click here to view the embedded video. Living in a certain place and time, we tend to think within a certain set of values and act upon them as if they are universal. And we use our critical skills to...
View ArticleThe Artist and the Scientist in Dialogue with the World
Click here to view the embedded video. David Bohm on Art, Science and Dialogue: Artists are not just ‘expressing themself’, not just ‘pushing outward what is already formed inside of them’. The first...
View ArticleAn Aesthetic Experience
Click here to view the embedded video. Ken Robinson on Aesthetics and An-Aesthetics: An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak. When you are present in the current...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Meaning of Concepts
Click here to view the embedded video. We bring up our children with too much conceptual abstractions, that they have to memorize. They have to learn concepts without realizing the underlying reality....
View ArticleSerious about Creativity
Recently I came across a very interesting woman, Paula Scher. I saw a Tedtalk from a few years ago where she talked about design, play and being serious. In that talk she differentiates between being...
View ArticleThe Map and the Territory
Some time ago I watched the video ‘The divided brain and the making of the western world’ from Iain McGilchrist. The talk was really very interesting, so I started reading his book, ‘The Master and...
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