D ear friends, In Walkie-Talkie #10 I continue where I left off last time: with the great 19th-century psychologist and philosopher William James  and his notion of the ‘filter theory’, a remarkable theory about consciousness and ‘mind’. During the previous walk , I briefly explained why I find William James and his work so important and relevant, and now I will go into that in more detail, as well as the question of why we need to talk about the ‘mind’. Why is it necessary

Half-hour interview with New York physician, scientist, and philosopher Neil Theise, on complexity, emergence, and consciousness as the basis of reality. D ear friends, As promised in the previous post , I will begin this series Musings and Meditations by introducing a number of remarkable scientists and philosophers whose work opens up extraordinary perspectives on a possible new understanding of what the world actually is, and what we actually are. All these extraordinary s