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Weekend Workshop
Esalen Institute, Big Sur, CA
October 1-3, 2004
Chaotic Mind
The relations among mind, machine, and
nature have long been an intriguing nexus of
inspiration. The thrust of this workshop will
be to explore these connections, focusing
both on immediate applications to daily life
and on possible methods for social change.
On the personal scale, it is inherent in the
nature of computation that we cannot predict
the motions of our own minds. A complex
computation is unable to outrun itself. This
phenomenon is evident in one's daily changes
of mood. It is calming to view moods in terms
of chaos and strange attractors.
On the social scale, the evolution of chaos and
complexity theory holds out the hope for
computational solutions to such problems as
the population explosion, the devastation of
the environment, and the plague of war. Can
we influence the global chaotic mind?
Workshop presentations will be more experiential
than technical. The workshop will
include lectures, discussions, some strolls to
observe nature's chaos in the Esalen gardens,
as well as a few guided inner-exploration
exercises to observe our bodies and minds.
Revised July 16, 2004 by
Ralph Abraham
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