Mind, Matter, and Life: Fritjof Capra
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
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Fritjof Capra summarizes years of research and revelation on the systems view of life in 17 profound and significant minutes. In plain language he introduces the idea that cognition, or mind, is the very process of life itself, which requires neither a brain nor a nervous system to self-organize and the self-perpetuate. He concludes by expressing the hope that this new scientific theory which, for the first time, unifies mind, matter and life, will soon be common knowledge.
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This man influeneced me in my teens. He thought me more about philosophy and science in one or two books that i ever knew. The three books that i read then were The Tao of Physics, The Turning Point, and Uncommon Wisdom. Wonderful works. The ancient Hindu sciences already knew of all what he says.
My favorite author of all time
Led me to quit what I was doing and go do a MSc in Complexity Science
I believe Mr. Capra is doing the best job I've heard so far while remaining within some fundamental meanings that require renovation before a clear model of mind/ matter connection can be declared. Bucky Fuller said something that stayed with me for years and fueled alot of my personal inquiry. I paraphrase, he said, "....I walk on the Earth and I don't know what I am. I don't think I am a noun, a thing... I seem to be a verb, a process...".
That perspective led me to the observation that we are a noun dominated species in regards to our current. shared psychological narrative. Centuries of immersion in the mechanistic/materialistic view have left us "verb blind". We've also taken for granted that our 9 parts of speech is a complete framework. This framework structures our linguistic processing, which correlates directly with "how we think",
I'm asserting that we need to include, PRESENCE, as a part of speech that includes both noun and verb definitions as well as, designates a whole discreet function in human thinking and use of language. Presence can describe an action because a movement of wind can be present as well as a stillness. We can also sense the presence of a gator in our boat or an atom of perfume, things have literal presence. But, here's the kicker, qualities and experience have the characteristic of being present too. Can you sense the presence of danger or anger? Can you sense the disarming-ness of calm reproach? Can you sense the presence of color?? Well?
We cannot use noun metaphors to have verb experiences. We have to use verb metaphors and Dr. Capras systems/process approach is what is needed in this vein. I am overcoming my "verb blindness" by practicing my experiential senses daily. By experiential I mean, non-physical as in your sense of humor or hope or home or dread or deflation or doggedness... you get the picture. The Egyptian Mystery school utilized 360 senses in the initiation process of it's presenting candidates. This took 360 days and involved other rites and rituals. Anywho, each day, I draw a scroll from my bag of 360 and on each scroll is written an invocation to "invoke" a particular sense and then I contemplate and "practice feeling the sense" so as to awaken my atrophied senses of action, process and being. Anyway, yeah. That's been showing inexplicable developments in my personal experience of life and thinking. Cheers!
professormaxtrinity : As a tai chi instructor on the cover of my handout I have the following “ Sometimes I think I am a verb” Buckminster Fuller. Nouns are for lawyers and politicians and verbs are for forest dwellers.
Dr. Fritjof Capra, a Rishi Scientist. You, sir, have moulded my life and thinking in the most profound ways. "Dance of Shiva" became a theme for my life during my early formative and struggling years of finding meaning and purpose.
I knew Capra since his world shaking book titled “Tao of Physics” days of glory, in the 70s. Now I listen to his thrilling words once again with keen attention, after a lapse of about 50 years. Nothing has changed in him. But everything has changed in the world.With the fall of the Berlin Wall that paved the way to the fall of the Soviet Union every thing has changed in the knowledge world, with the Farewell to Materialism. Thanks for the pleasure his words provided to the heart.
Yet destroying the matter (the resources, the planet) as capitalism does doesn't seem to be the correct answer either
Fritjof Capra ---- A true pioneer and legend. Or, expressed in common parlance: A really cool dude.
Wow!!! Very deep thought provoking speech. I will
Have to listen it few more times to have more understanding. Ajay Desai. Dallas. Texas. US
He had me until the end where he described "consciousness" as a type of complexity of network of mind and matter. This is a better description of finite consciousness (human) than the old Cartesian model, but still materialistic in nature.
Non-dualism clearly teaches mind and matter arise IN and from consciousness, not the other way around. He'll get it one day. 😊
@Dirty Joe good question. You are aware of it because you are conscious, even when not awake. Our language is based on materialism. Awake=conscious. Not awake=unconscious. This is wrong. Little by little science is understanding.
I think he'd say its both and in between the two.Having aspects of both materialism and of mentalism. Watch his talk on Thinking Allowed he explains this.
I think science have to make a complete switch inside out: consciousness does not emerge from the world, the world exists within consciousness.
At least Fritjof Capra is more open minded than many other academic scientists.
@Dirty Joe according to ancient teachings it is all a matter of vibration. Those invisible beings vibrate in a different frequency. However, vibration is a bit of a deceiving term because we expect some kind of vibrating medium, which may not be the case.
Now I read my sentence again I see a funny word combination: "matter of vibration". Matter comes out of vibration.
I would use the word awareness. But, ofcourse, giving meaning to language is a .process of consciousness. In my usage it is awareness that "sees" consciousness.
The Tao of Physics is one of the best books I have ever read.
As was The Turning Point for me.
"Turning Point " changed the way I look in to life so much !
What stands apart in his case is his conviction about what he believes in and his ability to convince it others with profound communication skill. Truely genuine!
The problem with this perspective is that it requires magic step between life and non-life, the two domains separated arbitrarily by some unspecified magic that endows life with mental process. Hence this merely shifts the unbridgeable Cartesian gap to another unbridgeable gap between live and dead matter. There is no way around this problem without assuming that mental process goes all the way down i.e. the perspective of panpsychism. After all, the network architecture, which Capra only attributes to life, is actually present at all scales.
I read Capra over twenty years ago, and was very taken with his work. I would recommend it still, particularly ‘Web of Life’, as a wonderfully accessible introduction to the history of the shift in scientific understanding that birthed systems thinking, and the solutions that it has already provided to longstanding intractable problems in pretty much every field of science.
I agree that there are inescapable panpsychic implications, but the particular species of panpsychism it describes I found less problematic than other ‘mind as a fundamental property of matter’ woo that seem to demand one consider that there might be something that it is like to be cricket bat. Nor is there much of a bright line between living and non living systems. There is no appeal to magic (unless one considers the Universe to be ‘magic all the way down’), quite the contrary. There are many physical systems that we sensibly regard as ‘non-living’, that nonetheless seem to ‘rhyme’ with living ones. If I remember correctly, he referred to these as any “stable systems far from entropy”, and gave the example of a spiralling funnel of water above an emptying drain. Such ‘open systems’ maintain their structure; tending toward self governing order, rather than toward the entropy and homogeneity that are the doom of all closed systems. Without a grasp of systems thinking, all the emerging order of life could be seen as an anomalous and inexplicable affront to the laws of thermodynamics, rather than the inescapable consequence of an iterative process of self organisation that can be found expressed at every level of interrogation one might subject the universe to.
His idea is being practiced and realized as experiential wisdom thru practicing Zen or vipassana meditation for example - to find the relationship between mind and body, or mind and its connection to sensory and physical entity (structure in his term).
Read his book, "The tao of physics", when I was in college back in the late'80s.
He has taken great leap breaking the clutches of matter as the only base of everything that exists including life. There is lot he would have gained by going deeper into eastern philosophies . He just scratched superficially . Life, mind and spirit are emanent from matter Or vice versa. Every other priciple is inherent in the other. The evolution of matter to life , life into Mind and Mind into Spirit. At each stage things appeared impossible logically.
What about crystlals? I mean, they change its internal structure when the conditions of pressure and temperature change. Is like kind of perception.
Search "crystallized self"
@@Yamsauce Yep ! -> GURDJIEFF !
To make sense of the world it has long been evident to me that an acorn "knows" how to become an oak tree. One can only make sense of mind and brain as being different aspects of one entity with mind being a process of the brain. Excellent video.
Such an easy theory and so difficult to explain. Understanding something is also the right to be able to explain.
An improvement from mainstream science, but still many steps away from understanding the direct experience of consciousness.
Simply 'PRICELESS' .
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The World Is Mind
The Law myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s a sound vibration that is the essence of all of existence and non-existence, the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the true creator of everything that is, ever was and ever will be, right down to the minutest particles of dust, each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves by tapping directly into it by way of self-produced sound vibration.
On the subject of ‘Who or What Is God?’, when we compare the concept of ‘God’, as a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to Nichiren’s teachings, the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people call ‘God’ is our enlightenment, which exists nowhere else but within us.
When the disciples asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God is, didn’t he tell them that it was within them?
Some say that ‘God’ is an entity that can never be seen. I think that the vast amount of information that is constantly being conveyed via electromagnetic waves gives us proof of how an invisible state of ‘God’ could actually exist. It’s widely known that certain data being relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects, including instant global awareness of something or mass emotional reaction. As well as many other things, it’s also common knowledge that these waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to even enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars. However, none of this is possible without a receiver to decode the information that is being transmitted. Without the receiver, the information would remain impotent.
In a very similar way, it’s important for us to have our ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our life, all other life and what we and all else that exists truly is. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and switch it on. That’s because the sound vibration of myoho-renge-kyo represents the combination of the three major laws that underlie all existence.
Myoho represents the Law of latency and manifestation (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. One state of myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists. This includes our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them, our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re not being expressed, our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma, and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes obvious to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory, whenever we experience or express our emotions, or whenever a good or bad effect manifests from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it simply means that it has come out of the state of ‘myo’ (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s simply the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing something.
The second law, renge, governs and controls the functions of myoho, ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect. The two laws of myoho and renge, both functions together simultaneously, as well as underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination, kyo, is what allows the law myoho to be able to integrate with the law renge. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects together all Life and matter, as well as the past, present and future. It is often termed the Universal Law of Communication. Perhaps it could even be compared to the string theory that some scientists now suspect exists.
Just as our body cells, thoughts, feelings and all else are constantly fluctuating within us, everything in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux, in accordance with these three laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible for us to calculate or describe. And it doesn't matter how big or small, important or trivial that anything may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of myoho-renge-kyo.
These three laws are also the basis of the four fundamental forces and if they didn't function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. Simply put, all forms of existence, including the seasons, day and night, birth, death and so on, are all moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation, rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two universal states of myo and ho in absolute accordance with renge and by way of kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn in accordance with the workings of what the combination myoho-renge-kyo represents.
Nam, or Namu, on the other hand, is a password or a key; it allows us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with myoho-renge-kyo. On a more personal basis, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives from moment to moment, as well in our environment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is turning, and rhythmically chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for a minimum of ten minutes daily, anyone can experience actual proof of its positive effects in their life.
In so doing, we can pierce through even the thickest layers of our karma and activate our Buddha Nature (enlightened state). We’re then able to summon forth the wisdom needed to challenge, overcome and change our negative circumstances into positive ones. It brings forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that is preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we truly are, regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexual preference. We are also able to see and understand our circumstances and environment more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations.
Actual proof soon becomes apparent to anyone who chants the words Nam-myoho-renge-kyo on a regular daily basis. Everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect, so the strength of the result from chanting depends on dedication, sincerity and determination. To explain it more simply, the difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a song and so on.
NB: There are frightening, disturbing sounds and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It's the emotional result from any sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day you are producing a sound vibration that is the password to your true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things, such as your fears and desires etc. The important way to get the best result when chanting is not to see things in a conventional way (difficult to achieve but can be done), rather than reaching out to an external source, you need to reach into your own life and bring your needs and desires to fruition from within, including any help that you may need. Think of it as a seed within you that you are bringing sunshine and water to in order for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s important to understand that everything that we need in life, all the answers and potential to achieve our dreams, already exist within us.
ua-cam.com/video/6CZ0XJqWRr4/v-deo.html OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN sings about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
Mind is in the body, not in the head. Khalid Masood
Good one!
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Hey, mister sandman, plat me a song again tomorrow. Please please so I remember to sing!
Wa congratulations educational
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Mr. Capra should meet Sadguru
No need to meet sadguru. Dr Capra is scientist and sadguru is fraud like osho . he has only one experience of the dog god . indra .
Dr Capra has experience of the shiva tandav .
@@aniruddhakaryekar2390 Sorry but OSHO is NO fraud at all (imho) !
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I'm thinking he, or anyone else, who describes evolution as touchy-feely creative, not competitive, and deeply new-age spiritual yada yada yada, oughta watch the new Netflix series, Hostile Planet. Red in tooth and claw, boys and girls.
The eyes are always on the violent stuff. I live for 30 years in a city of 25,000 people. In that period only 1 person was killed. Mostly we do boring stuff no journalist or filmmaker is paying attention to. Even fairytales never show the happily ever after time.