Co-creativity and Community (eBook)

Gerald Hüther zählt zu den bekanntesten Hirnforschern im deutschsprachigen Raum, ist Autor zahlreicher (populär-)wissenschaftlicher Publikationen und Vorstand der Akademie für Potentialentfaltung.

Title Page 4
Copyright 5
Table of Contents 6
Before we get started 8
Part 1: Life as an Ongoing Learning Process 20
Why do we have so many problems? 21
On what are our thoughts oriented? 23
What drives us to seek knowledge? 27
Where has our quest for knowledge led us? 30
Are we capable of recognising ourselves? 32
How do we gain insights of our own? 37
How can we assess the validity of our insights? 42
Which insights prevail? 43
On which insights can we orientate our actions? 45
1.1 Living organisms don’t function like machines. They want to live and pursue their own goals, making them intentional subjects 50
1.2 Programmes and blueprints can help us realise our goals, but all living organisms are self-organising 54
1.3 Competition is not the driving force of evolution it merelymoves living systems to become increasingly specialised
1.4 No living system exists for its own sake. It is alwaysconnected to other living organisms and can only liveand evolve amidst other organisms that want tosurvive, grow and reproduce 67
Part 2: The Structuring of the Human Brain ThroughSocial Experiences 72
What is coherence? 73
How does self-organisation work in the brain? 75
How do we become the way we are? 77
2.1 The prenatal structuring of neural networks inthe developing brain 78
2.2 The structuring of children’s brains throughtheir own experiences 90
2.3 The structuring of the human brain throughthe transgenerational sharing of experiences 101
2.4 The lifelong re-organising capacity of established neuralconnection patterns in response to novel experiences 115
Part 3: Unlocking Potential in Human Communities 122
3.1 How do we currently live together? 124
3.2 Are there alternatives? 132
3.3 What do we want to live on? 140
3.4 What do we want to live for? 143
3.5 When will we take the first step? 147
The road ahead … 154
Author’s note 159
Body 8