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Ontological and epistemological complexity

What do we mean by complexity? How does complex differ from complicated? And what do we mean by simplicity? How do these concepts relate? The notion of complexity appears in many subject areas, such as psychology and adult development, pedagogy, … Continue reading

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Complexity and simplicity

Complexity and simplicity is a cliche that is sometimes referred to. But what does it mean and how can a higher complexity sometimes make life simpler? Let’s take a classic example from the history of mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss was one of … Continue reading

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Ultimate concern

- What do you want? What do you really want? she asked me. We had talked for hours, for months, about life, structures, wisdom, patterns in nature showing up in our mind, about noetic insights, about doubting everything and finally … Continue reading

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The limitations of the evolutionary meaning-making

or Peak oil and why integralists tend to overlook it A week or two ago I recorded a podcast with two Norwegians, one was the host James Alexander Arfinsen who has been doing a lot of podcast interviews with people … Continue reading

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Sustainable development on Wikipedia

Yesterday I participated in a small conference at National museum of nature history in Stockholm with the aim of discussing sustainable development in relation to Wikipedia. The Swedish articles on and around sustainability and sustainable development are to say the … Continue reading

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Turquoise consciousness

What does turquoise consciousness mean? In this blog post I’m pushing the boundaries as a researcher here about what I can say with certainty. For natural reasons there is not that much data supporting any claim that can be made … Continue reading

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Garden earth – excellent book on sustainability

This year I have signed up to a distance course in sustainability, or Sustainable transition as it is called. I have been doing a lot of reading and discussing on my own last years and wanted to learn more, connect … Continue reading

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Ny sajt – komplexitet.se

Nu är det dags att ta nästa steg i vuxenutvecklingen! Aktiviteten på den här bloggen vad gäller vuxenutveckling flyttas nu över till den nystartade sajten komplexitet.se! Jag står bakom den också. Där flyttar jag över det viktigaste av den kunskapsmassan … Continue reading

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Jämställdhetsbluffen – en revolution?

Nu har jag äntligen fått hem Pelle Billings Jämställdhetsbluffen och sträckläst. Även om jag har läst alla inlägg på http://www.pellebilling.se/blogg/ sedan starten så var det en och annan nyhet, men framförallt presenterade den en sammanhängande bild av kunskapsmassan som han … Continue reading

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Common cause

Up to date I have written almost 100 introducing texts on adult development in Swedish and started to consider translating them to English, which is a future project. Until then I have compiled everything (and more) in a pretty condensed … Continue reading

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