clea
CLEA (Center Leo Apostel, focusing on worldview research)
via michel bauwens tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/1834511526033592546]:
I have joined the CLEA (Center Leo Apostel, focusing on worldview research), which hosted the Global Brain Institute and now the Human Energy project, as a ‘guest researcher’: [https://clea.research.vub.be/michel-bauwens]
from their site [https://clea.research.vub.be/about]:
The Centre Leo Apostel (CLEA) was founded in 1995 as a transdisciplinary research department, situated at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). It is named after the Belgian philosopher and logician Leo Apostel (1925-1995). Apostel donated the money of the Solvay prize, which he received for his life work, to the VUB in order to create such a centre.
Leo Apostel
Leo Apostel (1925 – 1995) was a Belgian philosopher and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities.
Philosophy
The strength of CLEA lies in its research philosophy, which we characterize as “thinking beyond boundaries”. This approach may be described as ‘transdisciplinary’ or ‘a-disciplinary’ rather than ‘interdisciplinary’, given that interdisciplines, such as molecular biology or economic geography, often just become new disciplines. Neither fundamental questions about the universe (such as the meaning of life, mind or complex organization), nor practical problems of contemporary society (such as sustainability or globalization), care about disciplinary boundaries. Reality is an interconnected whole that cannot be divided into separate domains.
actually need to try deeper than: meaning of life; mind/complex org; problems of contemp society..
need something/problem deep enough to get at the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
In CLEA, researchers from very diverse backgrounds work closely together in *addressing such basic challenges, without being restricted by traditional boundaries and subdivisions. For us, the significance of the research question is more important than the discipline in which this topic is supposed to be situated. **This allows researchers to focus on radically novel, yet promising issues that fall outside the existing categories—***such as quantum structures in decision-making, or the emerging intelligence of the Internet. However, this does not prevent them from acquiring highly specialized knowledge in the subject of their research where necessary. A-disciplinarity is not the same as shallow generalism, in which a researcher knows a little about a lot of topics but does not master anything in depth. This philosophy characterizes CLEA internationally as a research centre unique in terms of both methodology and research topics.
*but addressing supposed ‘basic challenges’ already restricts us.. so **not rad novel; not outside.. rather same song
***ie: the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us; intellectness as cancerous distraction;
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be you. 