
Your Moment of Agency: The Key to Empowerment
The moment of agency and its emotional and intuitive expression is key to the development of your Authentic Self. In order to express your authenticity,







The moment of agency and its emotional and intuitive expression is key to the development of your Authentic Self. In order to express your authenticity,

Are you – or somebody you know – a drama queen? Or Drama king – I mean, let’s not be sexist about this. Well, you’re about to find out, because in this blog article (and this week’s episode of Power and Presence) I’m going to test you on this precise question!

How can Chinese traditional concepts of mind and consciousness help us to construct a desirable and sustainable future of A.I. and the digital society? Chinese concepts I explore include: the dao, wu-wei, yin-yang, harmony, and balance. My main argument is that the current digital society is disconnecting us from the body, community and nature, and that Chinese traditional philosophical concepts can play a role in the correction of these problems, if aligned with modern science and technology.
This is a presentation which I gave as a visiting research fellow for the Communication and Heritage Research Group, University Research Centre for Culture, Communication and Society, Xian Jiaotong Liverpool University on May 9, 2024. The official title of the talk is: Artificial Intelligence, Cognition & the Futures of the Traditional “Chinese” Mind.

What if you spent many years putting everything into a dream, only to find it had become a miserable failure. That you had become a miserable failure. How would you deal with the experience of failing and being rejected again, and again and again as you strove to actualise that dream? What’s worse, what if you eventually found yourself pushing 50 years of age, unemployed and with even your partner telling you that you just don’t have what it takes and to give up. Would you just throw in the towel? Well, this is exactly what happened to me – right before everything sifted and I became a globetrotting expert in my field. So, in this video (see below), the first of 3 on this topic, I am going tell you how I turned it all around, and how years of struggle actually prepared me for success.







