Neurophenomenology in verses

"In the long history of tenuous relations between psychology, psychiatry and philosophy the rise of neuroscience is typically regarded as decisive turn towards biological reductionism. Roughly since the turn of the millennium, however, the story has become more complicated. The emergence of social and cultural neuroscience seemed to indicate a new trend toward interdisciplinary cooperation across the nature-culture divide. Situating the emergence of this transdisciplinary agenda in the longer history of biologicalization in psychiatry and neuroscience, however, allows differentiating a mere rhetoric of bridging between neuroscience and humanities from conceptually more stringent studies such as in neurophenomenology. While some actors developed sophisticated experimental settings here for mediating between opposing approaches, others contributed by performative interventions, as critique comes in different forms and formats. In effect, these different lines of work keep the question regarding human nature open; certainly not the least achievement." (Abstract from Cooperation and Critique in Neuroscience: Loops of Feedback Between Philosophy, the Psy Sciences and Neurophenomenology Author: Cornelius Borck (Universität zu Lübeck)

This read inspired the below words as it became clear to me that our existence is all a dance between Order and Chaos. Causality is not enough to explain reasons behind our choices or anything happening in our life. We need to understand things in movement and relations among them all and within the system where the experiences happen and continuously change us and the system in itself.

It’s all a dance,

a sway between chaos and order,

the pulse of systems folding in on themselves,

each moment a new choreography,

where meaning forms and dissolves,

threads spun from the void

only to be unraveled again.

And when we touch the whole,

when we step into its shifting current,

we are transformed—

never what we were before,

each encounter remaking us in its unfolding.

We can move with intention,

a deliberate architect of our becoming,

or surrender to the storm,

let the chaos take us,

and from its fragments,

perhaps, something new arises.

We are both the choreographer and the dancer,

never fixed,

never still,

spinning worlds from the interplay

of agency and abandon.

Martina Ercoli