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Where Probability Meets Emergence
Probability deals with uncertainty among possibilities; emergence concerns how possibilities and structures can develop in the first place. Modern A.I. increasingly brings the two together. When concepts, meanings, and even the relevant possibility space remain in development, coherence may give their meeting depth. When two worlds meet For a long time, probability and emergence could Read the full article…
The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
Science has transformed humanity’s understanding of the universe. Yet one of its greatest philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead, warned of a subtle danger that accompanies every scientific success. He called it ‘the fallacy of misplaced concreteness’: the tendency to mistake an abstraction for the concrete reality from which it was abstracted. Nearly a century later, his Read the full article…
Individuality Unbound
Who am I? It may be one of the oldest questions in philosophy, yet recent science makes it more intriguing than ever. Am I my body? My brain? My memories? My personality? As the boundaries of the individual become less rigid, the possibility emerges that individuality is not something fixed that possesses coherence, but something Read the full article…
Consequences of Human Complexity
Science is steadily revealing new dimensions of the human mind. Rather than making people simpler to understand, these discoveries show how profoundly rich, dynamic, and interconnected human beings truly are. The important question is therefore not whether we are complex, but what follows from that realization. Increasingly, it becomes the background against which we may Read the full article…
From Subconceptual to Conceptual through Coherence
Human thinking may appear to move from one conceptual thought to another. Beneath this, however, countless non-conscious processes continually influence, constrain, and reorganize one another. Coherence is the principle through which this living activity temporarily crystallizes into concepts. The conceptual is therefore neither detached from the subconceptual nor permanently fixed: time and again, it is Read the full article…
From Intelligence to Cleverness or Wisdom
Artificial intelligence is advancing at breathtaking speed. Yet intelligence, by itself, does not determine the direction in which it develops. This blog starts with the question: If intelligence grows from coherence, what does it become next? Perhaps the future is a branching path. One direction leads toward ever greater cleverness. The other leads toward wisdom. Read the full article…
Artificial Emotions
The title may make many readers think of robots pretending to smile or chatbots producing carefully worded expressions of sympathy. Yet before asking whether A.I. can have emotions, we may need to ask whether we have fully understood our own. Recent developments in neuroscience increasingly show emotions as dynamic processes emerging from the ongoing interaction Read the full article…
Why LLMs are (not so) Successful
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed artificial intelligence in a remarkably short time. However, something important is still missing. This blog is not about limitations as such. Instead, it asks a different question: why are LLMs so astonishingly successful in the first place? The answer may reveal something profound about intelligence itself. A paradox worth Read the full article…
Strange Inversions
Some scientific discoveries do more than answer difficult questions. They alter the questions themselves, not because reality has changed, but because our way of looking at it has. Daniel Dennett called such moments ‘strange inversions’: reversals in reasoning that reveal something unexpectedly simple beneath what once looked impossibly complex. Perhaps these inversions all invite us Read the full article…
Sentient Beings
For centuries, ‘saving all sentient beings’ sounds familiar and Compassionate to many people, yet few pause to ask what a sentient being actually is. The answer may be less about belonging to a particular category than about participating in a particular kind of becoming. This shift opens an unexpected bridge between ancient wisdom, modern science, Read the full article…
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…