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Exploring relational ontology, agency as cause, social reality, contemplative frameworks, and alternative epistemologies
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Revealing that observer-dependence, complementarity, and information-theoretic principles are not unique to quantum mechanics but appear throughout classical physics, social systems, and scientific method—validating contemplative insights about the participatory, constructed nature of reality while providing rigorous frameworks for understanding how observation and relationship fundamentally shape what we call "objective."
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Moving beyond mechanistic views of life to understand organisms as goal-directed, intelligent agents challenges reductionist frameworks and opens space for contemplative perspectives on consciousness, purpose, and the nature of mind across scales—from cells to ecosystems to AI.
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Just as embryogenesis is shaped by target morphologies—where cells organize toward an envisioned form—societies are shaped by their collective beliefs, rituals, and social imaginaries. These shared visions of what ought to be serve as attractors that pull social reality into being, making the imagined manifest. This perspective challenges mechanistic social network models by recognizing ritual and collective intentionality as fundamental technologies for coordinating behavior, transmitting values, and literally constructing the social world we inhabit.
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Understanding meditation and contemplative practices through complexity science provides rigorous frameworks for studying their mechanisms and effects—validating contemplative knowledge while opening new research directions in health, cognition, and transformation.
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Acknowledging multiple valid ways of knowing—lyric, contemplative, relational—alongside analytic approaches enriches scientific methodology and honors the full spectrum of human understanding necessary for bridging scientific and contemplative domains.
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Growing Research Community
This page evolves with our community. Some papers are forthcoming and will be added as they become available. Interested in contributing or collaborating? Contact [email protected]
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