The Nonlinear View

Discover the deep simplicity that exists throughout the self-organizing living universe with this animated short in collaboration with Cognitive Media!

A brief description of the 30+ years of research and writing leading to the nonlinear view.

A Q&A overview to begin exploring this self-organizing nonlinear universe.

Let's explore the concept of nonlinear systems and how they are capable of performing complex tasks with minimum effort. We will observe this process in the human body, in plant and fungal networks, and throughout the creative universe.

What are the inherent qualities of nonlinear networks?

Here we explore how nonlinear networks are made of order and randomness, and how that allows them to perform at the chaotic zone. We will introduce concepts including a power law distribution, self-similarity, and universality.

This section explores the historical development of the linear approximate model, and how this became the currently dominant model in our thinking and activities.

Because of the universality of nonlinear networks, we can observe where within the body we have disconnected from this inherent self-organizing nonlinear process and apply this knowledge to every network we are a part of.

The Impact of Acknowledging the Inherent Self-organizing Process: Integrating Science, Spirituality, and Philosophy

Here we analyze of the digital era and the unsustainability of our linear model, and how this is accelerating during this digital age, which is an emergent era of transformation.

Here we explore the universal application of the Nonlinear View to social and planetary networks at any scale.

As we see the Sun and Earth as modeling the sharing of resources without expectation, we can view them as models of unconditional love. This is the principle quality or feeling of the universe.

Dive into the Nonlinear View in its entirety here.

A quote from Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics describing the paradigm shift in physics from thinking in terms of structure to thinking in terms of process.

A short overview of fractal geometry and how it applies to the nonlinear view of the universe.

The fractal dimension of the Golden Ratio could contain this pattern of information that is inherent throughout the universe…

Dr. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar. He came to prominence after the publication of his book The Master and His Emissary, subtitled The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World.

Chaos Theory conjures up images of nature gone haywire, with all sense of order cast aside. But how did we get here?