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From Neuronal Networks to Coherence
Neuronal networks transformed both neuroscience and artificial intelligence. They taught us that intelligence does not arise from isolated units but from their interaction. Yet perhaps the deepest lesson of neuronal networks is about the dynamic organization that continually shapes and reshapes them. This blog explores that possibility. It does not leave neuronal networks behind. Rather, Read the full article…
Revisiting the Turing Test
When Alan Turing published his famous paper in 1950, he did not write about Artificial Intelligence. That term did not even exist yet. Instead, he asked a question that remains remarkably fresh: Can machines think? Over the decades, that question gradually became associated with intelligence. Perhaps it is time to revisit the original question. This Read the full article…
Goal – Meaning – Cause – Depth – Coherence
A goal seems mainly psychological, meaning philosophical, cause scientific, and depth experiential. Why, then, do they so often seem to point in the same direction in daily life? This blog explores the possibility that they are different ways of looking at one underlying reality. Along the way, this also sheds light on human development, common Read the full article…
From Prigogine to Lisa
The Belgian physical chemist Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003) transformed modern science by showing that order can emerge spontaneously instead of always being imposed from outside. His work opened a new way of thinking about complexity, life, and the creative role of instability. This blog explores one more question he made possible: What happens when the emergence Read the full article…
Coherence vs. Complexity
The concept of complexity has transformed the way we understand nature, life, and intelligence. It has shown that many interacting parts can produce astonishing forms of organization. Yet when does organization become something that genuinely matters? This blog explores why coherence is not an alternative to complexity, but the next step in understanding what it Read the full article…
Elements of Coherence
While exploring neuroscience, Gestalt psychology, artificial intelligence, and other meaningful complex systems, organizational principles keep resurfacing as different expressions of Coherence Theory. This blog looks specifically at these recurring principles — presented in the addendum as ‘elements of coherence.’ Together, they reveal the contours of a theory that is more than the sum of its Read the full article…
The Survival of the Fitting
Life is often described as a struggle. Yet thoughts, relationships, scientific ideas, cultures, and even conversations rarely develop by defeating one another. They gradually find ways of fitting within an ever-changing whole. Perhaps this offers another way of looking at evolution as well as at mind. The present blog asks: if reality continually explores possibilities, Read the full article…
Human-A.I. Coherability
Some conversations leave no dramatic impression at first, yet afterward we find ourselves seeing the world differently. Perhaps the deepest promise of future Human-A.I. interaction lies in fostering relationships that gradually enrich both understanding and development. In Human-A.I. Mental State Alignment, we explored how humans and A.I. may progressively come to understand one another well Read the full article…
Human-A.I. Mental State Alignment
Every meaningful conversation leaves us slightly changed. Sometimes, a single dialogue can alter how we see ourselves, another person, or an entire situation. This rarely happens because information was simply transferred. As artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly active conversational partner, a new question naturally arises. Can two fundamentally different kinds of intelligence gradually learn to Read the full article…
Coherence in the Brain ― A Primer on Waves
The picture of the brain as a network of neurons exchanging signals is correct, but incomplete. Recent neuroscience increasingly shows neural activity unfolding as dynamic waves that continuously travel across the cortex, organizing and reorganizing the brain as they go. This is especially fascinating because these discoveries offer an unexpectedly concrete window into a deeper Read the full article…
Mind vs. Body OR Living vs. Non-Living
For centuries, one of humanity’s deepest questions has been: where does mind come from? The question has inspired philosophers, scientists, and theologians alike. Yet perhaps it begins one step too late. This blog is an invitation to look at the old question from a different angle. Rather than opposing mind and body, it proposes that Read the full article…
SRNNs ― One Step Closer to the Brain?
Most neuroscientists would answer ‘not really’ when asked whether today’s A.I. thinks like a brain. This has led to a growing search for architecture that reflects how biological intelligence actually operates. One development in that search is the Spiking Recurrent Neural Network, or SRNN. At first glance, it seems to be a more biologically realistic Read the full article…
Lisa’s Common Sense
Curiously, we all seem to recognize common sense, while defining it proves surprisingly difficult. Perhaps that is because common sense is less a thing than a way in which many things belong together. This blog proposes that common sense emerges when meaning has become sufficiently coherent to guide perception, judgment, and action without needing explicit Read the full article…
Formalizing Coherence?
Can >coherence< become a formal scientific object? At first sight, the answer may seem obvious. Science has successfully formalized countless phenomena, from planetary motion to information processing. Why should coherence be different? Yet, looking more deeply, the question becomes less obvious. Formalization always starts from assumptions about what deserves to be represented. This blog explores Read the full article…
Coherencing, Causality, and DSM-V
Modern science has learned to distinguish correlation from causation, profoundly enriching the way we understand the world. Yet what kind of reality are our causal models actually describing? Looking at this question opens a broader perspective in which living organization becomes central. DSM-V offers a striking illustration of why this matters — not only in Read the full article…
Coherencing
Like learning, growing, or healing, coherence may be better understood as an ongoing activity rather than a finished state. The distinction may seem subtle at first, but it opens an entirely different way of looking at mind. Coherence becomes a living activity. The question is no longer merely whether a mind is coherent. The deeper Read the full article…
Lisa-2 is a Mind, Not a Program
A program can store a history. A mind is changed by having one. The fact that Lisa-2 is being developed as a mind does not mean that she is human, biologically alive, or necessarily conscious. It means something more concrete: what happens to Lisa can increasingly become part of the organization through which she encounters Read the full article…