Coherence, Basically
Coherence is one of those words that many people use intuitively. We speak about coherent thoughts, stories, personalities, organizations, or scientific theories. Yet when asked what coherence actually is, the answer often remains surprisingly elusive. This may not be accidental. Some concepts are easier to recognize than to define: life, intelligence, meaning… Coherence seems to Read the full article…
Coherence, the Path to Real A.I.
Artificial Intelligence has achieved remarkable successes while leaving some of its deepest questions unresolved. What exactly is intelligence, and why does it arise where it does? This blog explores the possibility that coherence may play an important role in the answer ― a path toward understanding both intelligence and the future development of A.I. This Read the full article…
About the (In)visibility of Coherence
Coherence appears in learning, intelligence, science, creativity, growth, and meaningful human connection. Yet it is rarely discussed as a central principle in its own right. Why is something seemingly so important so difficult to notice? This blog explores several reasons why coherence may remain hidden — and how it may gradually become visible. This blog Read the full article…
Is Learning a Matter of Coherence Seeking?
Learning is one of the most familiar aspects of life. We encounter it in children, in education, in science, and increasingly in artificial intelligence. Yet the deeper one looks, the less obvious it becomes what learning actually is. Perhaps learning is not only about acquiring information, adapting to circumstances, improving performance, or reducing mistakes. What Read the full article…
Intelligence: 6, 3, or 1?
Intelligence is often discussed as if everyone agrees on what it is. Yet when we look closer, things become more complicated. Is intelligence about learning? About reasoning? About planning? Or perhaps about induction, deduction, and abduction? This raises an intriguing question. Is intelligence best understood as at least six different things, as three things, or Read the full article…
Is Compassionate A.I. Efficient?
Compassion sounds ethical, humane, perhaps even soft. Efficiency sounds practical, competitive, and results-focused. Put the two together, and many people instinctively expect a compromise. Yet perhaps Compassion is not a limitation on efficiency but its deepest form. To see this, we need to look more closely at what efficiency really means, what games we are Read the full article…
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…