Quantum Thinking

Alan Kay challenged us to develop Another Level of Thought: > Our technology is taking us into a place where we need another level of thought, beyond the level that it took to create it. source

One where we experienced emergence – that emergence that Whitehead speaks of and then to make meaning as Friston speaks of in his free energy principle.

Emergence and meaning that happens when we sit uncomfortably in the overlap of the unknown and the known, that dynamic ecotone we have come to recognize as a dance between the Formless and the Formed.

But it wasn't until we came to viscerally experience David Bohm's vision that we began to appreciate the quantum dynamic of consciousness as conceived through pilot waves, a model that underpinned the rest of his life's work, one which provided a validation of Whitehead's theories.

We realize that as we experience Individual and Collective Emergence we begin to think differently – no longer defined Cartesian linearity and locality, but by Whiteheadian 'creativity' – one defined by nonlinearity and nonlocality. A thinking that we now sense is that which Kay called us to, a thinking that Bohm helped us understand that we might call _quantum thinking_ felt by others .

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