PlexusCalls: New book, The Complementary Nature

Jun, 2006 - Kelso, J.A .Scott

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June 2, 2006 1PM to 2 PM

The Complementary Nature
Guest: J. A. Scott Kelso


Dr. J.A. Scott Kelso, the neuroscientist and author, founded the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University in 1985 to assemble scholars and researchers from diverse fields to work together on complex issues. His new book, The Complementary Nature, co-authored with David A. Engstrom, is in bookstores now. Dr. Kelso formerly directed the center, holds the Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science at FAU, and is also professor of Psychology and Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences. He has written more than 300 major research articles in neuroscience, psychology and physics, and has written eight books and many book chapters. He is the executive editor of the Springer-Verlag Series Understanding Complex Systems. His 1995 book Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior, won raves from scientific reviewers who said the work broke new ground in understanding the interconnections among brain, mind and behavior. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, an interdisciplinary scholar affiliated with the University of Oregon, says The Complementary Nature is a "genuinely fascinating" book that breaks ground again. The exploration of the human tendency to organize reality into complementary rather than oppositional pairs, she says, opens "fresh terrain for future research" in the science of coordination dynamics, and ultimately, the nature of human nature.

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