Co-creativity and Community
von: Gerald Hüther
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2018
ISBN: 9783647462301
Sprache: Englisch
158 Seiten, Download: 2866 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
| Title Page | 4 | ||
| Copyright | 5 | ||
| Table of Contents | 6 | ||
| Before we get started | 8 | ||
| Part 1: Life as an Ongoing Learning Process | 20 | ||
| Why do we have so many problems? | 21 | ||
| On what are our thoughts oriented? | 23 | ||
| What drives us to seek knowledge? | 27 | ||
| Where has our quest for knowledge led us? | 30 | ||
| Are we capable of recognising ourselves? | 32 | ||
| How do we gain insights of our own? | 37 | ||
| How can we assess the validity of our insights? | 42 | ||
| Which insights prevail? | 43 | ||
| On which insights can we orientate our actions? | 45 | ||
| 1.1 Living organisms don’t function like machines. They want to live and pursue their own goals, making them intentional subjects | 50 | ||
| 1.2 Programmes and blueprints can help us realise our goals, but all living organisms are self-organising | 54 | ||
| 1.3 Competition is not the driving force of evolution | 58 | ||
| 1.4 No living system exists for its own sake. It is alwaysconnected to other living organisms and can only liveand evolve amidst other organisms that want tosurvive, grow and reproduce | 67 | ||
| Part 2: The Structuring of the Human Brain ThroughSocial Experiences | 72 | ||
| What is coherence? | 73 | ||
| How does self-organisation work in the brain? | 75 | ||
| How do we become the way we are? | 77 | ||
| 2.1 The prenatal structuring of neural networks inthe developing brain | 78 | ||
| 2.2 The structuring of children’s brains throughtheir own experiences | 90 | ||
| 2.3 The structuring of the human brain throughthe transgenerational sharing of experiences | 101 | ||
| 2.4 The lifelong re-organising capacity of established neuralconnection patterns in response to novel experiences | 115 | ||
| Part 3: Unlocking Potential in Human Communities | 122 | ||
| 3.1 How do we currently live together? | 124 | ||
| 3.2 Are there alternatives? | 132 | ||
| 3.3 What do we want to live on? | 140 | ||
| 3.4 What do we want to live for? | 143 | ||
| 3.5 When will we take the first step? | 147 | ||
| The road ahead … | 154 | ||
| Author’s note | 159 | ||
| Body | 8 |