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©2007 Andrew Ilachinski My imaging philosophy is very simple. I strive to record the subtle, interconnected web of energy that makes up what we call the world. For me, beauty, which permeates everything around us, appears in its most sublime state when form, color, pattern and texture are all in harmony. In the same way…
This paper concerns some specific aspects of the combined research promoted by the Iberia-Network of LSI. A general scheme of the combined research was already presented in Metanexus Conference, June 2006: “Human Evolution – Script for Research Project to be carried out by the LSI and the Iberia-Network in Spain.” This is a restricted research…
1.- Introduction There are solid evidences of the way the Universe evolved from the initial Big Bang to human beings ruled by different physical laws and by natural selection of random mutations. Atheists are convinced that natural laws and chance are enough to explain our existence. On the contrary, believers are convinced that the Universe…
Why one should NOT deal with such a construction plan of the universe Whoever wants to understand the function of something that exists would like to emulate it for a practical validation test, for one’s own use or for further development. Such motivations seem completely utopian for a reproduction of the universe. Nevertheless, people thought…
The concept of wisdom is increasingly being examined as a psychological construct (Sternberg, 1990; Sternber & 2005; Baltes & Staudinger, 2000); the discussion, while primarily informed by Western and intellectual perspectives of what is meant by this term, acknowledges certain core elements, primarily the ability to fruitfully engage conflicting knowledge or aspects of a situation…
Buddhism is classed among the world’s major religions. The teachings of Buddhism can be traced back to its founder, Gotama Buddha, who proclaimed after a laborious search for the nature of the good life that he became enlightened regarding a certain reality that was not known to the existing authoritative traditions of his time. The…
Despite centuries of science and religion being on opposite sides of the debate about the relation of body and spirit, science is now confirming what people of faith have long known. The advancing scientific understanding of how our brains mediate our being has opened the door to reveal sacred Desire as incarnate in our bodies….
The war of definitions How transdisciplinarity was born Transdisciplinarity is a relatively young approach: it emerged seven centuries later than disciplinarity, due to the Swiss philosopher and psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980). The word itself first appeared in France, in 1970, in the talks of Jean Piaget, Erich Jantsch and André Lichnerowicz, at the international workshop…
Introduction Specializations abound in the world today. This can be seen everywhere from the way an office is structured into departments and subdepartments to a hospital with a large number of specialists for presumably every type of illness. It is clear to see the advantages of specialization. On the one hand, a human being does…
1. Introduction The Problem The central theme of this conference “Transdisciplinarity and the Unity of Knowledge – beyond the Science and Religion debate” is a very important and relevant one for the world that we are facing and living in today. The quest for the ‘unity’ of our knowledge is being contemplated against a backdrop…