The Squiggle Sense Sixth Sense of the Complementary Nature and the Metastable Brain~Mind

Either/or thinking is a major stumbling block to human development and understanding. In this book Kelso & Engstrøm offer a whole new way of looking at the world, awakening a “sixth sense” that people didn’t realize they had. It draws on the profound relationship between nature’s many complementary contraries and the paradigm shifting science of coordination called Coordination Dynamics. The human brain~mind, through the multi- and metastable modes of its coordination dynamics, gives rise to a sentient faculty called the squiggle sense. Nature's contraries are perceived not only as opposing polar states, but as coexisting complementary tendencies, symbolized by the squiggle (~). Use this book to nudge your brain~mind into its metastable mode again and again, to better perceive the complementary dances of contraries, and to transcend the detrimental narrow-mindedness of polarized, either/or thinking. As a "Metastabilian" you can wield your squiggle sense to enhance and advance your life!

.- 01 of knowledge and wisdom.

.- 02 of beginning and end.

.- 03 of mystery and wonder.

.- 04 of survival and discovery.

.- 05 of polarization and reconciliation.

.- 06 of contraries and complementarity.

.- 07 of TSS and TCN.

.- 08 of Coordination Dynamics and TCC.

.- 09 of squiggles and dynamical modes.

.- 10 of theory and experiments.

.- 11 of brain and mind.

.- 12 of metastable mode and complementary code.

.- 13 of dynamic patterns and pattern dynamics.

.- 14 of self-organization and agency.

.- 15 of intentional action and intrinsic dynamics.

.- 16 of perception and action.

.- 17 of intrinsic dynamics and functional information.

.- 18 of learning and memory.

.- 19 of individual and collective.

.- 20 of dissipation and cycles, etc.