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Christine Hardy
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SEMANTIC FIELDS THEORY (SFT)
SFT tackles the provocative concept of a universe charged with meaning and
constantly transformed by the meanings generated by all humans and sentient
beings. In this sense, we participate, in a most intimate manner, in the way
our environment evolves and we collectively affect humanity's future state.
Creating meaning is thus a fundamental process of the mind, because the
way we think and feel, both individually and collectively, interacts with
events-in-the-making and objective reality, shaping the nature of society
itself.
This creation of meaning involves a continuous mind-environment
interaction: meaning is injected into the environment, and then retrojected
back into the psyche, somewhat modified. Through this process, individual and
social semantic networks, as well as physical reality itself, are subtly
affected and reorganized.
SFT's purpose is to account for complex mental processes such as
creativity and innovation, intuition, sudden non-linear mental shifts (as in
altered states of consciousness, breakthroughs and insights, conversion, etc.).
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Hardy, Christine. 1998. Networks
of meaning
: A bridge between mind and matter. |
NETWORKS OF MEANING : The book that leads you to astounding insights
into your own intuitive and creative processes as well as into finer grain
processes underlying communication and synchronicities.
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TABLE OF
CONTENT |
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Introduction |
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1. Semantic constellations, 10 |
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2. Conscious experience, 22 |
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3. The mind’s architecture, 42 |
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4. The mind’s dynamics, 55 |
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5. Connective learning, 79 |
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Secos as dynamical Networks 97 |
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7. Environment, endo-context, exo-context, 117 |
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Mind, matter, and quantum mechanics, 136 |
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Eco-semantic fields, 148 |
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10.
Events-in-making, 162 |
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11. Communication and collective consciousness, 171 |
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Conclusion, 189 |
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Bibliography, 193 |
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