Art, Science, and Creativity
The Ground of Being, Intuition, Unpredictability, and the Adjacent Possible. Moving beyond the reach of common language, what is the ultimate source of any or all kinds of creativity?
Nothing in the universe is more complex than life. Throughout the skies, in oceans, and across lands, life is endlessly on the move. In its myriad forms – from cells to human beings, social structures, and ecosystems – life is open-ended, evolving, unpredictable, yet adaptive and self-sustaining. Complexity theory addresses the mysteries that animate science, philosophy, art, and metaphysics: how this teeming array of existence, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, is in fact a seamless living whole and what our place, as conscious beings, is within it.
Professor of pathology Neil Theise, author of “Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being”, is a scientist, philosopher, and a pioneer researcher of adult stem cell plasticity and the anatomy of the human interstitium. His studies in complexity theory have led to interdisciplinary collaborations in fields such as integral medicine, consciousness studies, art, and the science religion dialogue. He brings to this conversation his decades of experience as a student of Zen Buddhism.
The talk will be in English.