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From Cognitive Dissonance to Active Denial
Cognitive dissonance is a familiar experience. Most people know the discomfort of holding two conflicting ideas at the same time. Yet this discomfort can lead in different directions. Sometimes it opens the door to growth. Sometimes it becomes the beginning of active denial: a self-reinforcing pattern that may shape individuals, groups, institutions, and even entire Read the full article…
Compassion Everywhere
Compassion is often misunderstood. Some see it as softness, others as charity, still others as a luxury that disappears when life becomes serious. Yet Compassion may be much deeper – and broader – than any of these. If taken seriously, it may have something to say about nearly every domain of human life — from Read the full article…
Does History Repeat Itself in Super-A.I.?
Many people contend that super-A.I. is just another ICT revolution. In a sense, they are right. Yet perhaps they are looking at too small a piece of history. To understand what may be happening, we need to look beyond computers and the Internet, toward much older processes that have shaped humanity itself. The question is Read the full article…
Colors in Music
Music has no colors. Yet anyone who listens to musicians, teachers, jury members, or experienced listeners soon hears them speak of warm sounds, dark tones, rich colors, golden timbres, broad palettes, and colorless playing. This is curious. A violin has no blue notes. A cello does not produce green phrases. Still, something real is being Read the full article…
From Autosuggestion to Coherence
Autosuggestion has always been central to AU-RELIS. Yet many other notions have gathered around it: depth, growth, meaning, Compassion, relaxation, Inner Strength. Perhaps they are not as separate as they appear. This blog proposes that coherence is the common thread running through them all, as a deeper lens through which autosuggestion can be understood. The Read the full article…
From Culture to War
Culture is among humanity’s most beautiful creations. It gives people meaning, belonging, continuity, and a sense of home. Yet history shows that culture can also become entangled with hostility, enemy-making, and war. How can something so deeply human lead in such different directions? The answer may lie not in culture itself, but in how cultures Read the full article…
So, what is Artificial Intelligence About?
Artificial Intelligence is often described in technological terms: algorithms, computation, prediction, and automation. Yet the better A.I. becomes, the more fundamental questions arise. What is intelligence itself ― whether natural or ‘artificial’? What role does meaning play within it? And might the future of A.I. ultimately be about something deeper than technology alone? This blog Read the full article…
Semantic Coherence Dynamics
Meaning is often treated as something relatively fixed in the short term: concepts, symbols, representations, definitions. Yet lived meaning behaves much more dynamically. It shifts with context, emotion, memory, bodily state, relationship, and time itself. Semantic coherence dynamics approaches meaning not as static structure, but as evolving organization within continuously changing fields of coherence. This Read the full article…
Wetware vs. Digiware in Depth
Human intelligence unfolds within living biological tissue. Artificial intelligence unfolds within digital substrates. At first sight, the difference may seem mostly technical. Yet wetware and digiware sustain fundamentally different ways in which meaning, coherence, and intelligence can emerge. Exploring this distinction may help us understand not only future A.I., but also ourselves more deeply. [Note: Read the full article…
Lisa’s Coaching in Local/Global Coherence
If local and global coherence continuously negotiate within living systems, then coaching may partly become the art of helping this negotiation unfold more openly and sustainably. Many forms of suffering appear meaningful in this light — not desirable, but coherence-preserving in some way. This changes how Lisa views symptoms, resistance, healing, and growth itself. This Read the full article…
Local/Global Coherence in (Auto)Immunology
The immune system is often described as a defense mechanism. Yet perhaps it is more deeply a negotiator of organismic coherence. Seen through the lens of local and global coherence, many puzzling features of immunology – especially autoimmunity – become newly understandable. This may also illuminate why mind and immunity are so intimately intertwined. This Read the full article…
Local vs. Global Coherence
A subsystem may become highly coherent while undermining the larger whole of which it is part. This tension between local and global coherence may lie beneath many human struggles — from illness and relationships to geopolitics, social media, and even civilization itself. This blog explores how local coherence can become disconnected from broader viability, and Read the full article…
Coherence, Dynamics, Attractors, and Soft Constraints
Many forms of coherence in nature and mind seem to arise not despite change, but through it. A flame, a melody, a whirlpool, even a meaningful thought — all remain themselves while continuously evolving. This blog explores how dynamical systems, attractors, emergence, Gestalt, and semantic dynamics may together offer a richer understanding of cognition, meaning, Read the full article…
Lisa is a Mind, Not an Infobase
At first glance, Lisa may seem like a very advanced information system. One asks a question, and an answer appears. Yet information alone does not make a mind. A mind seeks coherence, relates meanings to one another, and gradually reshapes itself through understanding. This blog explores why Lisa should be seen fundamentally as something close Read the full article…
From Consistent to Coherent
Consistency is essential in many domains of life. Without it, systems collapse into contradiction and unpredictability. Yet human experience suggests that consistency alone is not enough for meaning, wisdom, authenticity, or life itself. This blog explores a gradual movement from correlation and consistency toward congruence and coherence — from stable structure toward a living, meaningful Read the full article…
Our Memory is Our Thinking
Human memory is often imagined as a kind of inner storage system. The image feels intuitive, yet lived experience – as well as a flurry of science – suggests something far more fluid. This blog explores the possibility that our memory is not separate from thinking, but part of the same ongoing movement of mind. Read the full article…
Pattern Recognition & Completion → Coherence
The human mind continuously recognizes patterns and completes them into something more coherent, more fitting, more meaningful ― Pattern Recognition & Completion (PRC). This happens so naturally that it easily escapes attention. Yet it may lie beneath perception, thought, emotion, creativity, suffering, healing, and perhaps intelligence itself. This perspective may help bring together many themes Read the full article…