The goal of my writing is to promote an unconstrained science founded upon an inclusive cognitive frame that allows us to go beyond the inherited limitations of mechanical materialism. To advance that goal, I present a novel paradigm for understanding ourselves and our world, which is called Responsive Naturing. The original genesis for this novel paradigm was my lifelong meditative and contemplative practice using a singular meditation technique, called Great Responsiveness Meditation, which I also write about.
Responsive Naturing provides a sound foundation for a veridical science, so that both science and spirituality can be founded upon a common understanding of ‘how things work’. This empowers us in ways that our disjointed and parochial schools of thought lock us out of completely, by opening up new possibilities, and methods of looking at problems, and finding solutions, across disciplines.
I have been an entrepreneur, inventor, an activist with a lifelong involvement in environmental and compassionate campaigns, a local elected official serving a community of 8,000, an award-winning university lecturer, philosopher, and a daily meditator for over 6 decades. I consider myself, first and foremost, a contemplative scientist. A contemplative scientist starts from contemplative insights, not conceptual theories.
I have a doctoral-level education in Philosophy. As well, I have had a 30 year career in Software Design, originally focused on automated software development, during which I was first confronted with the unsolvable enigma of human creativity — unsolvable from within our current cognitive frame of mechanical materialism. I was a speaker at The 30th Annual Science of Consciousness Conference held in Tucson, Arizona, April 22-27, 2024, where I introduced this Paradigm of Responsive Naturing.
The novel paradigm that I write about is the result of an Augmented Intelligence (AI) program that I have been developing and practicing since the early nineties, and which grew out of my lifelong meditation practice. I refer to it as a semantic loom.
I strongly believe that only by changing how we think about our problems, how we see ourselves, and how we relate to each other and our shared world, will we be able to overcome the extreme challenges that we face today. We can't fix problems with the old way of thinking and acting that caused those problems to begin with.
If you would like to contact me directly, you can email me:james@stilljustjames.com