These three I highly recommend: curiosity, wonder and awe. :-)

I believe that Slow Science and new ways of carefully crafted, coordinated collaboration across institutional, cultural and national boundaries can and will transform both science and society in most beneficial ways. I am currently trying to build bridges between physics and contemplative science, and to begin implementing a vision for a trans-disciplinary, post-scarcity, mindful, collaborative science-and-society ecosystem. I invite you to take a look at my Contemplative Scientific Collaboration project and the Mindful Researchers initiative. Be welcome to join us – let’s collaborate!

Here are some of my research interests – partially related to physics and my recent academic life (at CERN, University of Innsbruck, Graz University of Technology, etc.), partially related to consciousness, mind-body, and interdisciplinary connections. I tend to approach most of these fields with a combined stance of agnosticism, skepticism and the trinity from above: curiosity, wonder and awe.

I am currently most interested in Physics, General Semantics, and the vast interdisciplinary realms of Contemplative Science (including Neurophenomenology) in theory-and-practice. For my evolving views on cognition/mind, experience/life, and even science itself, I draw much inspiration from enactivism and the enactive approach as formulated by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch and others.

On the side of group-level practical implementation, communication, and decision-making, I place my chips on “Systemic Konsensing” (in German: “Systemisches Konsensieren”), Council, Dialogue, and Nonviolent Communication – to be integrated with “inner work”, Peter Koenig’s “source principles“, and all of the above wherever possible and meaningful. My experiences (including intense community-building) with Leap Forward and other communities have in- and transformed my life and work.

(The following list is not prioritized. A multi-dimensional connected-graph tag cloud would help, and of course it would also be an oversimplification. :-))

• Physics & Mathematics <3
• Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics, Radiation Physics
• Computational Physics, Computer Simulations
• Data Analysis, Neural Networks, Machine Learning
• Statistical Physics
• Relativity Theory, Quantum Physics
• Astrophysics, Cosmology, Baryogenesis, Black Holes
• Astrobiology, Origin of Life, Autocatalysis, Autopioesis
• Constructor Theory
• (Radical) Constructivism
• (General) Systems Theory
• Cybernetics, Second-Order Cybernetics
• General Semantics
• Semiotics, Biosemiotics
• Anthropology-Biology-etc. (Gregory Bateson style)
• Patterns … and meta-patterns (a most wonderful meta-trans-discipline!)
• Memetics
• Phenomenology, Neurophenomenology, Microphenomenology
• First-, Second- and Third-Person Perspectives (in Science and Comtemplative Traditions, with particular emphasis on the second-person perspective which I deem rather fundamental and yet vastly under-explored!)
• Enaction, Enactivism, 4E cognition, 5E / 4EA cognition
• Embodied cognition, Situated cognition
• Embodied communication, Non-violent communication
• Contact Improvisation, Bodywork, 5 Rhythms, Dance Movement Therapy
• Sensorimotor theories of consciousness
• Process-oriented psychology
• Neuropsychoanalysis (particularly when connected to Bayesian prediction models and – yet to be explored? – contemplative science and practice)
• Internal Family Systems (IFS), Gestalt therapy, REBT, etc.
• Council, Bohm Dialogue, Dialogos
• Systemic Konsensing (in German: “Systemisches Konsensieren”)
• Organizational Development
• Cognitive science, Neuroscience
• Predictive processing, Bayesian approaches
• Integrated Information Theory
• Buddhist philosophy-and-practice
• Integral Theory, Spiral Dynamics
• Neutral Monism, Dual-Aspect Monism, Nonduality
• Decompositional Dual-Aspect Monism
• Philosophy of Science, Epistemology
• Process philosophy, Mathematical philosophy
• Metamodern Spirituality, Participatory Sensemaking
• Stories and Myths, Storytelling, Mythology
• Cognitive biases and fallacies
• Exceptional experiences, Mystical experiences
• Community-supported agriculture
• Permaculture, Organic gardening/farming
• Gift-based economy, Resource-based economy
• Education, Learning, Creativity
• …

And then there’s a whole lot more that I have on my radar, and even more that I have not yet considered (nor even encountered!), and all of it is interconnected, and sometimes different nodes and clusters light up on the screen …

What do you know of that I may like to consider adding?
Let’s explore together!