Physical Being

Much has been written over the years about body language and how we can ‘read’ it. Although we are generally not aware of it, we place great significance on others’ physical appearance, behaviour and movement. It is what we first notice about others when we meet them and we make our initial assessments of them […]

The foundations of the ontological approach which led to this work were established in part through the work of a Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana. From the 1960s he explored the nature of living systems and through his inquiry he came to some remarkable conclusions, certainly for the time. Maturana identified that each human being is

If we accept consciousness is a subjective experience arising from the dynamics of our body, how do things find their way into consciousness? We are constantly taking in information about the world from our senses, yet not all of this becomes conscious to us. You are likely to have had an experience, where music was

Our simulations occur outside our awareness, yet some enter our consciousness and become our conscious experience. Any discussion about the human brain and our biological or physical being must involve the aspect of our being where we become conscious of something. Consciousness remains one area of the human condition that is still open to debate.

To appreciate the human condition and how we experience time, we must include another aspect of the human condition that allows us to engage with the past, memory. Memory is key to the human condition and plays a big part in how we create our predictions and simulations throughout life. We have two clear memory

A common-sense view of our experience would have us believe our brains react to what our senses tell us about the world. We perceive something, process what we perceive and then take some sort of action. That a stimulus leads to some brain activity which leads to our actions would, at first glance, seem to