About The Crazy Experiment of Nikola Tesla and John von Neumann

By Hans Konstapel November 15th, 2007, under Completed, History, Physics

One of the most influential inventors of our time was Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). He was specialized in “Electro-Magnetic Inventions“. Tesla became a myth. He became a myth because he was not a “normal” inventor. Tesla saw his inventions in his mind. He not only saw them he could even play with them in his mind [...]

About Self Reproducing Systems

By Hans Konstapel November 12th, 2007, under Biology, Completed

Many people who are Out of Balance seek the help of a Therapist. There are Thousands of approaches available on the Market. Nobody is able to tell what therapy suits You. Eugene Gendlin started to do research to find this out. He came back with his own therapy called Focusing. He discovered that every therapy [...]

Why all Organisms are Moving Memories

By Hans Konstapel November 12th, 2007, under Biology, Completed, Psychology

Rodney Cotterill explains a lot about the structure of very simple bacteria. What he shows is that even bacteria have Emotions. To agree with this we have to agree on a definition of the Emotions. Agreeing about “What an Emotion is” is one of the most complex discussions in Psychology. The discussion is so complex [...]

Thinking with our Muscles: About Mirrors, Spindles and Acrobats

By Hans Konstapel November 11th, 2007, under Biology, Completed, Psychology

In 2002 Will McWhinney was writing his never finished book “Grammers of Engagement“. One of the scientists he was communicating with was Rodney Michael John Cotterill (1933-2007). Will send me an article of John Cotterill called “Cooperation of the basal ganglia, cerebellum, sensory cerebrum and hippocampus: possible implications for cognition, consciousness, intelligence and creativity” . [...]

About Color and Music

By Hans Konstapel November 10th, 2007, under Completed

In 1999 John Gage wrote the book Color and Culture, Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction. The book explains the way people “think/sense” about Color in History. I use the word think/sense because I believe there are many ways to look and a one of them is “to Look by Thinking“. The Science that [...]

About the Conduit and the Toolmaker Metaphor

By Hans Konstapel November 9th, 2007, under Completed, Language

In 1979 Andrew Ortony was the editor of the book Metaphor and Thought. It contains contributions of John Searle, George Lackoff and Thomas Kuhn. The book started a revolution in cognitive science later called “Embodiment“. The embodiment-movement has proven that metaphors are “the Tools of the Unconsciousness” or the “Foundation of Thinking”. One of the [...]

About Muddling Through

By Hans Konstapel November 3rd, 2007, under Completed, Politics

A parliament is a Place where People Talk (Parler, French). There are many places where people talk. They talk at home, in a café, at their work. People talk everywhere. Most of the time people talk to find out what they are talking about. In a Parliament people talk about the Actions of Government. In [...]

Why Civilians are Not Computers

By Hans Konstapel November 3rd, 2007, under Completed, Psychology

Montesquieu tried to balance the Power of the State. He defined three functions called the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. He based this model on the British constitutional system, in which he perceived a separation of powers among the Monarch, Parliament, and the Courts of Law. In a Democracy the Parliament represents the People. It [...]