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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
You yourself actually are not so much an entity that moves around in an environment. You are much more like a whirlpool in a stream. The whirlpool is constant only in its doing, that is to say in its whirling. And, you could recognize individual whirligigs in a stream, but the water is flowing through them all the time. They are never the same for ... See more
As Barad spoke, I experienced something extraordinary. For a few brief moments, as her words hung in the air above us in the darkened auditorium, I understood quantum physics. And when she stopped speaking, that understanding was gone. It was a product of intra-action too. I was left with the sense that while I would never really understand quantum
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart. The movement in which I am a pattern or convolution began incalculable ages before the (conventionally isolated) event called birth, and will continue long after the event called death. Only words and conventions can iso
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
For Barad, the entire universe is a continual process of emergence, in which nothing is certain or fixed, but is always becoming itself through its intra-action with everything else.