Mind as a Nonlinear Dynamic System and Wilfred Bion as a Paradigm Shifter for Psychoanalysis

This presentation offers a model of Mind as a complex, nonlinear dynamic system that is subjectively and phenomenologically experienced by an individual human being. The mind is also seen as co-existing with and interacting within a larger context, or system, consisting of a bioenergetic subsystem and a sociosymbolic subsystem. These include the neurological substrate of the human brain and body and the symbolic realm of language and culture and interpersonal communications. From an overarching metaphysical perspective, each individual, as a perceiving and agentic, living organism, reciprocally interacts with Reality in an on-going exchange of information across diffuse, dynamic, binary boundaries, with generated bifurcations that emerge from the engagement of the perceiving and acting organism with its experiential context. The mind, in a sense, creates Reality and at the same time is a subsystem of the larger realm. This presentation draws upon a diverse conceptual and theoretical framework, incorporating contemporary ideas from philosophy, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, quantum physics, information theory and semiotics as well as from nonlinear dynamic systems theory and chaos theory. An additional theme of the presentation is the role of Wilfred Bion as a paradigm-shifting theorist in psychoanalysis and a reexamination of his ideas through the lens of nonlinear dynamic systems theory.

[incudude]

Thank you for this wonderful video! Great summary of some of my favorite ideas to chew on…now gotta rewatch it about 17 more times:)

[harrisonroman]

awesome stuff. Great to find this. Thank you for the hard work Doc.

[dzydipo]

What a pity that there is only one lecture! Very interesting, thank you.

[sivamshakthi]

Ashtavakra Gita is about the observer and observed

[kennethgarcia]

It is interesting to hear someone sounding so sober who has simply wholesale borrowed a terminology from one disciple and slapped it on to another disciple without a meaningful integration. The level of integration from the stolen complexity system theory and neuroscience or psychoanalysis is a silly and fraudulent fiction. There is little value in listening to this other than reading an introduction to complexity or the video series from the Santa Fe institute and at least they are honest about what they are representing.