La enformía es un principio que consiste en la capacidad de organizar.
Les adjunto las notas de Donald E. Watson, su mentor, tema fundamental que requiere ser desarrollado en la diversidad de ámbitos del quehacer humano. De mucha importancia para el diseño del desarrollo humano y de ciudades.
Francisco Vidarte
Lima, Perú
What is enformy?
Donald E. Watson (*)
I'll put it this way: Without enformy, we wouldn't exist—indeed, life itself wouldn't exist. Nor would any other organized system in the universe. There would be no atoms or molecules, stars or planets, animals or plants. Since there would be no consciousness, there would be no science.
As I described it in my 1993 essay, enformy is the principle of creation—the fundamental, conserved capacity to organize. It is fundamental to energy and mass—the other conserved principles—and it organizes matter into being.
How do I know this? Well, of course, I don't know it as a certain fact. That's the nature of scientific knowledge. Enformy, energy, and mass are theoretical principles. We can't prove the existence of any of them. But we use the concepts because, as necessary elements of our theoretical models of reality, they describe the observed universe very well.
Like energy and mass, the enformy concept is extremely parsimonious. That is, enformy is a single concept that explains a wide variety of otherwise unexplained phenomena. These phenomena include life itself, consciousness, quantum entanglement, telepathy, psychokinesis, precognition, evidence of reincarnation, and the homing behavior of pigeons and other animals.
What do these "paranormal" phenomena have in common—aside from the fact that they're not explained by "normal" scientific theories? All of them express fundamental behaviors and properties of holistic systems. That's why a single concept—enformy—can explain all of them.
Enformy is the foundation of the Theory of Enformed Systems (TES), which, in turn, is the foundation of the study of whole systems. Because it addresses the organization of all systems--including the systems studied in physics, chemistry, and biology--TES is basic to these sciences. In other words, TES is a prephysical theory. That's why it provides the scientific route to spirituality.
Take this link for a brief Introduction to TES. To learn more about enformy, TES, and enformed systems, visit my Enformy Page. Or, to actually enjoy learning about enformy and enformy-based technologies, you can read The Last Miracle.
My autobiography would tell you what I've done and when I've done it. I prefer to tell you who I am. However, this is not easy. It may be impossible.
Describing what I've done is far easier than telling you who I am because my activities have recognizable names. In my 56 years I've pursued many interests, and I expect to continue doing so. Nevertheless, these activities don't characterize me.
I've reared three children, two of whom survive, but I'm not a father.
I've a medical degree, but I'm not a physician.
I've researched and taught neurophysiology, but I'm not a neurophysiologist.
I've organized citizen's environmental groups, but I'm not an environmentalist.
I've managed a political campaign, but I'm not a politician.
I've designed and written computer software, but I'm not a programmer.
I've founded a union of scientists and engineers, but I'm not a labor leader.
I've practiced, researched, and taught psychiatry, but I'm not a psychiatrist.
I've administered and presided, but I'm not an administrator or president.
I've researched the mastery of abstract thought, but I'm not a philosopher.
I've written, but I'm not a writer. This is not a riddle. The question, "Who am I?" is not answered by, "He who does ...." Such labeling debases the question. I'm not a thing-doer. I'm an entity who does things.
So, who am I? I'm the sole entity who is conscious of my existence. By using abstract thought, I can contemplate my non-existence, past and future, but I can't experience it.
I imagine that you, too, are conscious, yet I can't know this from experience, either. I wrote the following lines to address the issue of who I am. I imagine that, in reading the words, you will imagine that you know me.
THE SEARCHER Seduced by trails, railways, rivers, open gates, The searcher explores every passage. His fulfillments are abundant, yet He enjoys his attainments for only a twinkling - A moment before they slip into history. The searcher doesn't live in the past, Nor does he live for the future. His life abides in the present. The present is the film through which The future slips as it becomes the past. The searcher wouldn't live a predictable life - A life formed of identical days Linked together like sausages. The searcher has no more appetite for Exhumed days than for warmed-over breakfast. The searcher is a stranger to persons Not perturbed by quests, Who can't endure ephemeral pleasures. They don't know the searcher, for They can't hear the muse that beckons him. The searcher is accompanied by loneliness - A companion that he hates and fears. To elude loneliness, he seeks solitude. Sometimes solitude chills his loneliness. But it always fires his drive to search. What does the searcher really seek? Another searcher. A similar soul, Responding to her own muse, To share his perceptions and to Join him in common quests. But the searcher doesn't know what he seeks. So he continues to search - To walk the endless trails, To ride the jarring railways, And to drift, beguiled, through open gates. One day, perhaps, guided by his muse, The searcher will find the other searcher Embarked on her own quest. One day, perhaps, guided by their muses, The searchers will find what they have sought: One another. ("The Searcher" - © 1990 Donald E. Watson)
Curriculum Vitae
Donald Eugene Watson
Date of Birth: May 12, 1935 Place of Birth: Wichita, Kansas Children:
Debra Jean (8/8/56)
Heather Jane (9/5/62)
Scott Jacob (11/13/64 - 10/29/86) Education
AB: University of Kansas, Chemistry (1955)
MD: University of Kansas Medical Center (1959)
Intern: University of Kansas Medical Center (1959-1960)
Fellow: Albert Einstein College of Medicine (neurophysiology) (1960-1963)
Fellow: University of Washington (physiology and biophysics) (1963-1965)
Resident in Psychiatry: UC, Irvine (1973-1976)
License: G-24623 (California)
Diplomate: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1978) Professional Societies
California Medical Association (retired)
Orange County Medical Association (retired)
Orange County Society of Clinical Hypnosis (Past President)
Society for Scientific Exploration (member)
Institute of Noetic Sciences (member) Voluntary and Community Activities, Partial Listing
Founder and Former Chairman, Clean Air Coordinating Committee
Former State Chairman, Californians for Environmental Quality
Organizer and Founder, Society of Professional Scientists and Engineers at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Member, American Mensa, Ltd.
Senior Research Fellow, International Society for Philosophical Enquiry
Member of Board, International Academy of Philosophy Positions Held
1959 - 1960: Intern, Univ. Kansas Med. Ctr., Kansas City, KS
1960 - 1963: Postdoctoral Fellow (USPHS) Neurophysiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
1960 - 1962: Instructor, Physiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1962 - 1963: Assistant Professor, Physiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1963 - 1965: Special Fellow (USPHS), Membrane Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WN
1965 - 1973: Senior Scientist, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Biomedical Division, University of California, Livermore, CA
1973 - 1976: Resident, Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine (UCI), Orange, CA
1975: Chief Resident, Psychiatry, University of California, Irvine
1976 - 1977: Staff Psychiatrist, Assistant Ward Chief and Forensic Psychiatrist, UCI Medical Center
1976 - 1977: Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry, UCI Medical Center
1977 - 1989: Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, UCI Medical Center
1976 - 1989: Private Practice of Psychiatry, Santa Ana, CA. (retired)
1978 - 1980: Medical Director, CPC Santa Ana Psychiatric Hospital, Santa Ana, CA
1991 - 1995: Advisor to Board, Orange County University School of Law.
1990 - 1997: Consultant, utilization review, psychiatry, Unicare/Cost Care
1998 - present: Director, James Clerk Maxwell Project, Human Energy Systems Laboratory, University of Arizona
1998 - present: Member, Editorial Board, The Noetic Journal Professional Publications
D.E. Watson, P.R. Schloerb and D.C. Darrow, "Carbon Dioxide Loss from Burned Skin," Surgical Forum 10:, 355 (1960).
D.E. Watson, D.C. Darrow, H. Hanna and C.J. Kaiser, "Tissue Composition of Adrenalectomized Rats: Effects of a Short Fast with and without Injection of Hydrocortisone and Desoxycorticosterone," Metabolism 12: 452 (1965).
G.A. Morrill and D.E. Watson, "Transmembrane Electropotential Changes in Amphibian Eggs at Ovulation, Activation, and First Cleavage," J. Cell Physiol. 67: 85 (1966).
G.A. Morrill, J. Rosenthal and D.E. Watson, "Membrane Permeability Changes in Amphibian Eggs at Ovulation," J. Cell Physiol. 67: 375 (1966).
G.A. Morrill, A.B. Kostellow and D.E. Watson, "The Electropotential Difference between the Blastocoel and the External Medium in Amphibian Embryo; Its Similarity to the Adult Frog Skin Trans-skin Potential," Life Sciences 5: 705 (1966).
D.E. Watson, "The Location of the Iodide Pump," in Program Book for the Advisory Committee for Biology and Medicine of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Part 2, UCRL-14739, 109 (1966).
D.E. Watson and D.M. Yee, "Mechanism of the Iodide Pump," in Program Book for the Meeting of the AEC Bio-Medical Program Directors, p. 35 (1967).
D.E. Watson and D.M. Yee, "Behaviour of Ag/AgCl Electrodes in Solutions Containing both Cl- and I-," Electrochimica Acta 14: 1143 (1969).
D.E. Watson and D.M. Yee, "Rate of I-Cl Exchange for Ag/AgCl Electrodes in Solutions Containing both I- and Cl-," Electrochimica Acta 16: 549 (1971).
D.E. Watson, The Risk of Carcinogenesis from Long-term Low-dose Exposure to Pollution Emitted by Fossil-fueled Power Plants, University of California, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Report UCRL-50937 (1970).
D.E. Watson, "Comparative Environmental Costs of Various Energy Sources; a Perspective," in Proc. Health Physics Soc. Sixth Ann. Topical Symp. on Radiation Protection Standards, Vol II, p. 336 (1971). Invited.
D.E. Watson, "Goals of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Electrical Power Production" in Risk vs Benefit Analysis: Solution or Dream?, H.J. Otway, Ed., Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Report No. LA-4860-MS (1971). Invited.
D.E. Watson, Cost-Benefit Relations in Air Quality Standards: Biomedical Research for Assessing the Health Costs of Air Pollution, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Report UCRL-51282 (1972).
D.E. Watson, A Study of Comparative Health Costs of Nuclear and Fossil Fuels; Review and Commentary, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Report UCRL-00926 (1973).
D.F. DeFrancisco and D.E. Watson, "Chronic Crisis in a Family; A Father with Leukemia," in The Experience of Dying, E.M. Pattison, Ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1977).
D.E. Watson, "Psychiatric Aspects of Critical Care," Audio Cassette Lecture X3-602, National Critical Care Institute of Education, Feb. 1976. Invited.
D.E. Watson, "Psychiatric Liaison Services to the Critical Care Nursing Staff," Critical Care Update! 4: 5 (1977). Invited.
D.E. Watson, "Stress in Retrospect," Critical Care Update! 4: 12 (1977). Invited.
D.E. Watson, "Analysis of a Critical Care Unit as a Dynamic System," Chapter 3 in Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Critical Care, Second Edition, Donna A. Zschoche, Ed. (1980). Invited.
D.E. Watson, "Holmesian Skills in Medicine," (ltr) The Western Journal of Medicine 143: 112, July, 1985.
D.E. Watson, "If Demons are Real, They're Allergic to Neuroleptics," Psychiatric Times Essay Contest: (Grand Finalist 3/12/87).
D.E. Watson, "Personal Computers: Shop for Software First, Then Hardware," The Morgan Horse, October, 1989.
D.E. Watson, "Enformy: The Capacity to Organize," Thinking on the Edge, 181-189, R. Kapnick, A.A. Kelly, Eds, Agamemnon Press, Burbank, CA (1993).
D.E. Watson, "The Theory of Enformed Gestalts: A Model of Life, Mind, Health." Advances: The Journal of Mind-Body Health 13(4), 32-36 (Fall 1997).
D.E. Watson, "Memories of Sir John Eccles." The Noetic Journal 1 (1), p. 1 (1997)
D.E. Watson, Gary E.R. Schwartz and Linda G.S. Russek, "The theory of enformed systems: A paradigm of organization and holistic systems." The Noetic Journal 2(2), pp. 159-172 (April, 1999)
Schwartz, Gary E. R., Linda G. S. Russek, D. E. Watson, Laurie Campbell, Susy Smith. Potential Medium to Departed to Medium Communication of Pictorial Information: Exploratory Evidence Consistent with Psi and Survival of Consciousness. The Noetic Journal 2(3) July, 1999
D.E. Watson & Bernard O.Williams, Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain: The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism. NeuroQuantology 1:119-128 January, 2003
Telicom articles (ISPE)
Solomon Reversed on Appeal, Telicom, X, 18: 36, Feb, 1992.
True Beliefs-I, Telicom X, 20: 44, Apr, 1992.
True Beliefs-II: Autistic Certainty, Telicom XI, 7: 43, Apr, 1993.
The Legal Model vs the Psychological Model, Telicom XI, 15: 43, Feb, 1994.
Sanctuary for Minds, Telicom XI, 17: 31, May, 1994.
Are We `Nothing but a Pack of Neurons'? Telicom XI, 25: 62, Feb, 1995.
The Corrupting Influence of the Legal Faith, Telicom XI, 30: 48, Aug, 1995.
The Suicide Test, AI's Holy Grail, Telicom XI, 33: 50, Nov, 1995. Abstracts
D.E. Watson and V.E. Amassian, "Synaptic Organization of Motor Cortex," Physiologist 4: 131 (1961).
G.A. Morrill and D.E. Watson, "Transmembrane Potential Changes During Fertilization of R. pipiens Eggs," Fed. Proc. 21: 149 (1962).
D.M. Yee and D.E. Watson, "Specificity of Ion Selective Electrodes in Heterogeneous Solutions," Proc. 20th Ann. Conf. on Eng. in Med. and Biol., p. 15.4 (1967)
D.E. Watson, "Enformy and Enformed Gestalts: A Radical Theory of Consciousness," Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exporation, June 5-7, 1997. The Explorer 13(2&3) p. 4. (Spring/Summer 1997). [Abstract]
D.E. Watson, G.E.R. Schwartz and L.G.S. Russek, "A Comprehensive Theory of Consciousness I: Enformy and Enformed Systems." Consciousness Research Abstracts: Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tucson III) p. 137 (1998) [Abstract]
G.E.R. Schwartz, L.G.S. Russek and D.E. Watson, "A Comprehensive Theory of Consciousness II: A Theory of Meta-systems." Consciousness Research Abstracts: Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tucson III) p. 138 (1998) [Abstract] Books
D.E. Watson, Surviving Your Crises, Reviving Your Dreams, Mills & Sanderson, Bedford, MA (1994).
D.E. Watson, The Last Miracle, Writers Club Press, Lincoln, NE (2000) Computer Software
Pal Friday Office Manager, © 1988 Perceptive Publishers.
WorkHorse Series (CheckBooks, AddressBooks, PhoneLog, Executive, Invoicer), © 1990 Donald E. Watson, MD. Nontechnical Publications
D.E. Watson, "Insanity is an Illusion that Leads to Delusion," Los Angeles Times, May 25, 1982.
D.E. Watson, "Actually, Jury was Judging Prosecution, Not Hinckley," Orange County Register, June 30, 1982.
D.E. Watson, "Bird's Feat: Redefining Legal Concepts as She Sees Fit," Orange County Register, October 27, 1986.
S.J. Watson, (D.E. Watson, ed.), Dreamers Always Win, Perceptive Publishers, Santa Ana, 1987.
D.E. Watson, "Buddhist Endocrinology: A Balm for Ailing Doctors," The Psychiatric Times, December, 1990.
D.E. Watson, "The Game of Law," Orange County Register, July 24, 1994.
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