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==Special Interests== | ==Special Interests== | ||
Our knowledge of the world, and our decision-making to act in it, being '''''More Than Science'''''. | |||
That ''more than science'' component - or '''Wisdom''' - being closely related to what has been characterised by many, many times in terms of adding "Eastern" world-views in contrast with "Western" views. This East<>West contrast is of course short-hand for a distinction that has been understood since before the re-Socratics, better characterised as Classic (objective, conceptual, intellectual, rational) vs Romantic (embodied, relational, participatory, aboriginal, indigenous) worldviews. The histories of natural philosophy and of science are littered with such references, but the model we inherited has been dominated by "footnotes to Plato" from the ancient Greeks via Arabic scholars through the "modern" European enlightenment. The overlooked philosophical alternatives were well recognised by the early quantum pioneers as well as the so-called post-modernists, but it was the 1960's counterculture that most brought "Zen" and other Eastern ''embodied and mindful'' practices to Western attention. | |||
Our 2020's concerns with the existential polycrises or an underlying metacrisis - and our seeming collective incapacity to deal with them with traditional tools and models - very much mirrors the 1960's counter-culture reaction to the "military-industrial-complex". So much so that mindful practice has become "an industry" in its own right. Some (eg Watts) did most to promote Eastern practice into the West. Others (eg Pirsig) did more to add - to integrate - such practice and understanding into the otherwise successful Western worldview as a philosophical metaphysics. | |||
Ian's special research interests therefore lie in two places: | |||
* That 21stC neuro-science and neuro-philosophy provide a sound basis fully supported by such a metaphysical worldview beyond physical science. | |||
* That understanding this gives us an ontology supporting a new knowledge ecosystem which enables make better collective human decision-making and action, independent of the continuously evolving tools and technologies available to us. | |||
==Video Presentations== | ==Video Presentations== | ||