While the 17th century mathematician, scientist, and philosopher René Descartes is well-known for his infamous "I think, therefore I am" declaration of conscious autonomy, a good case can be made that "We feel, therefore we are," can serve as a defining description of human beings. The life-mind sciences have now demonstrated definitively that 99%...
In the posts below, I explore the many intersecting facets of cognitive permaculture, embodied/ecological cognition, living intelligence v. AI, living soulfully in a postsecular/postcolonial world, neoindigeneity, poetry, science, yin, and the like.
Ultimately, everything connects to everything. These writings are my attempt to trace these connections and explore emerging patterns as they are actively manifesting in this time of rapid sociocultural change.
If you want to understand cognition, go first to your direct, embodied experience, and only secondarily to concepts and abstract analysis. Go to movement, feeling, and sensation. The reasons for this are simple: