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Love me some improv. Johnnie Moore would be a great person to involve in your activities: https://www.johnniemoore.com

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I would Love to come but I'm stuck in the northwest of Scotland. Most beautiful place on earth. Ann and I retired to here almost seventeen years ago and now use Airbnb to survive economically.

In my understanding, Gebser and Bonita Roy are talking about the Universal Mind which sounds remarkably like -YES- a universal computational mind I discovered over thirty years ago, filling the moment of Kainos in a timeless way in a computer simulation. In a Univers, Superconductivity would be the timeless agent of the mind, creating spirit! It resonates with the title of Gebser's book: "The Ever Present Origin." I.E. revealing at every decision point the branch to take, in order to move from the present to the future goal in the least action potential way. This is not abstract but a form of what could be perceived as reality processing in the actual world, to potentially lead us out of the metacrises of the complexity created by us humans. It is at all levels epistemologically cognitive success, and in that complete!

Improvisation has been my life for over 78 years. A way of life of multidimensional drumming. Sometimes the pianist as the drummer and the drummer as the saxophonist, transcending into all creative aspects of Life. As a perceived computer boffin leading to a non-complex dynamic complexity of mind/spirit. Hegel in the wired brain. By "the philosopher Slavoj Zizek." You can say the truth, but it doesn't awaken us. This relates to Iain McGilchrist's Left Brain not understanding the Right brain's complexity. With the Mind of the Universe all things are possible. It seems to me we all need an awakening the concept of which doesn't go down well with forceful powerful technologists like Kurzweil, who believe that the singularity of technology and AI will be the way of mankind to awaken the Universe? As Slavoj has discovered. It's most likely to be the other way round.

I wish you all a happy four days of improv. Neuroscience has demonstrated how our individual brains change when we work together towards a common goal.

I envisage a great time of fun, joy and love.

Love brother Nelson.

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