Introduction
These are the key influencers whose ideas have catalysed, affirmed and resonated with my own thinking.
Philosophy & Science
- George Gurdjieff and the Fourth way. The The law of three & his conception of the transformation of being from mechanicalness to consciousness
- John Dewey and Instrumentalism & his Situational Inquiry
- Pragmatism: William James, CS Peirce, CI Lewis
- Robert Pirsig and his Metaphysics of Quality
- David Bohm & his thinking on wholeness and the Implicate Order
- Alfred North Whitehead & Process Philosophy
- Korzybski & General semantics 🔘
- Ernst von Glasersfeld and Radical constructivism
- Arthur Koestler. Conceived of and coined the term Holon
Psychology & Systems thinking
- WT Powers and Perceptual Control Theory
- Tim Carey “Methods of Levels" (2019)
- Cybernetics
- Kazimierz Dąbrowski & Positive Disintegration
Secondary influences
- Claude Shannon & Information Theory
- Maturana & Varela’s Autopoesis
- Viktor Frankl & Logotherapy (2018)
- Jacob Moreno & Psychodrama
- Michael Lewis
- Artificial Life
- Christopher Alexander
- Rupert Sheldrake
- Jean Piaget
