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I (Ryan Nagy) blogged and podcasted on Feldenkrais Podcasts for over five years, beginning in April 2006. I have recently moved to the current location (presumably the page you are reading right now) to better reflect my open-ended interest in the principles and potential consequences of the work of Moshe Feldenkrais and other systems thinkers such as Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana, Milton Erickson and many others. Self-Included.
I would like to boil it down to one point for now:
Heinz Von Foerster, From, The Certainty of Uncertainty p. XI
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Your comments about double looking from Bateson invites a third looking – as Maturana wrote in “What the frog’s retina tells the frog’s brain”. He points out that there is no information; there are no images on the retina; but a correlation between retinal cellular stimulation and the motor response. That way, we don’t “see” anything, but have a way of behaving as if we “see”. His experiments with salamanders is illuminating, as written with Varella in The Tree of Knowledge.
Thanks Rob! I’m in the process reading the Tree of Knowledge now (though only a bit at a time). I used to be quite familiar with the idea of “no information” or the idea that the world does not “contain” “information.” But I seemed to have lost it. Thanks for the reminder.
- Ryan
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Hi Ryan,
I’m trying to figure out how to contact you. BTW, speaking of Mantura, I just read this amazing article on Cultural Psychology by Baerveldt and Verheggen called “Enactivism and the Experiential Reality of Culture: Rethinking the Epistemological Basis of Cultural Psychology” where they take Fogel’s work and then mix with autopoesis to discuss the way culture is embodied, and it reads nicely with this article by James Cresswell called “Towards a post-critical praxis: intentional states and recommendations for change in acculturation psychology.”
Hello Ryan. Periodically over the last several years, Jon, my husband and I have searched for information about Jack Heggie. All we heard was that he had died…not when or how or anything. Suddenly he was gone. I truly appreciate your post about Martin & Jack.
Jack was one of two of the most able and skilled healers Jon and I had the good fortune to know. Jon edited Jack’s wonderful book on running with the whole body.
Jack joined us for home-cooked meals in Dallas several times. We were always struck by his awkward social skills…seemingly at odds with his brilliance and elegance as a Feldenkrais teacher. Many years later, after being around another brilliant man who reminded us of Jack, we learned learned about Asberger’s Syndrome.
While we’re not experts, it seems so plausible, looking back on our times with Jack.
We miss him so much…we happily referred dozens of our friends and relatives to him.
Thank you for answering the perplexing questions we’ve had.