Gregory Vigneaux
@gregvigneaux.bsky.social
Naturalizing Resilience Building©. Enjoying music & research. Experienced wildland firefighter & researcher. Exploring neurophysiology, operations, innovation, and social dynamics. Interested in time, design, complex systems, and biology
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Hello, Blueksky! My name is Gregory Vigneaux. I have degrees in Wildland Fire Mangement and Emergency Management. In my early career, I fought forest fires around the country. I am interested in societal issues and societal solutions. Presently, I am exploring the biology of resilience.
I searched "design studies" on LinkedIn this morning and was encouraged by all of the students earning grad. degrees.
It was also an introduction to NC State Uni.'s Ph.D. in Design, which is interesting. Forever interested in @cmu.edu 's Design doctorate, may have to pick this up in the New Year.
It was also an introduction to NC State Uni.'s Ph.D. in Design, which is interesting. Forever interested in @cmu.edu 's Design doctorate, may have to pick this up in the New Year.
December 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I searched "design studies" on LinkedIn this morning and was encouraged by all of the students earning grad. degrees.
It was also an introduction to NC State Uni.'s Ph.D. in Design, which is interesting. Forever interested in @cmu.edu 's Design doctorate, may have to pick this up in the New Year.
It was also an introduction to NC State Uni.'s Ph.D. in Design, which is interesting. Forever interested in @cmu.edu 's Design doctorate, may have to pick this up in the New Year.
Used finds at the bookstore. A gem from 1961. The physics section will be representative of the times and therefore limited, but I am looking forward to the discussion on causality.
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Used finds at the bookstore. A gem from 1961. The physics section will be representative of the times and therefore limited, but I am looking forward to the discussion on causality.
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Complexity includes certain principles that help the autonomous spirit to achieve knowledge. Whereas a program destroys the autonomy of the seeker, complexity stimulates an autonomous, responsible strategy." - Edgar Morin
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Complexity includes certain principles that help the autonomous spirit to achieve knowledge. Whereas a program destroys the autonomy of the seeker, complexity stimulates an autonomous, responsible strategy." - Edgar Morin
"From Being to Doing: The Origins of the Biology of Cognition" is an excellent read. I highly recommend it regardless of knowledge of Maturana's work. Pörksen and Maturana have this casual conversation that teaches the reader about some of Maturana's earliest work, onward to his focus on love.
An #observer must be able to #express its experience.
"Observing is for me a human operation that requires language together with the awareness that one is engaged in observing something. A cat just eyeing a bird does not appear to me to be an observer."
Maturana HR
www.goodreads.com/book/show/69...
"Observing is for me a human operation that requires language together with the awareness that one is engaged in observing something. A cat just eyeing a bird does not appear to me to be an observer."
Maturana HR
www.goodreads.com/book/show/69...
From Being to Doing: The Origins of the Biology of Cogn…
At the beginning of the last century, physicists revolu…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"From Being to Doing: The Origins of the Biology of Cognition" is an excellent read. I highly recommend it regardless of knowledge of Maturana's work. Pörksen and Maturana have this casual conversation that teaches the reader about some of Maturana's earliest work, onward to his focus on love.
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S. Kauffman & A. Roli discuss the same in their latest paper "Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Universe?" ( arxiv.org/abs/2401.09514 ).
Surprisingly, the paper does not mention Maturana and Varela's circular *Autopoiesis* or Pattee's emergent *Hierarchy Theory*.🤔
Surprisingly, the paper does not mention Maturana and Varela's circular *Autopoiesis* or Pattee's emergent *Hierarchy Theory*.🤔
March 31, 2024 at 3:54 PM
S. Kauffman & A. Roli discuss the same in their latest paper "Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Universe?" ( arxiv.org/abs/2401.09514 ).
Surprisingly, the paper does not mention Maturana and Varela's circular *Autopoiesis* or Pattee's emergent *Hierarchy Theory*.🤔
Surprisingly, the paper does not mention Maturana and Varela's circular *Autopoiesis* or Pattee's emergent *Hierarchy Theory*.🤔
Reposted by Gregory Vigneaux
autopoiesis for fun and profit
being as a treat
March 22, 2024 at 4:13 PM
autopoiesis for fun and profit
When you have storage space, you will store things you don't need.
Said goodbye to an old friend this weekend. The CamelBak Hotshot, (Possibly the original model?)
Bladder and hose long gone, I'm sure. I had not seen it in years, but it was still a moment to toss it.
Good times with this!
Said goodbye to an old friend this weekend. The CamelBak Hotshot, (Possibly the original model?)
Bladder and hose long gone, I'm sure. I had not seen it in years, but it was still a moment to toss it.
Good times with this!
December 2, 2025 at 12:12 AM
When you have storage space, you will store things you don't need.
Said goodbye to an old friend this weekend. The CamelBak Hotshot, (Possibly the original model?)
Bladder and hose long gone, I'm sure. I had not seen it in years, but it was still a moment to toss it.
Good times with this!
Said goodbye to an old friend this weekend. The CamelBak Hotshot, (Possibly the original model?)
Bladder and hose long gone, I'm sure. I had not seen it in years, but it was still a moment to toss it.
Good times with this!
Weekend additions to the bookcase. I was never a fan of Hegel until I came across this book. Exactly what I need at this stage and nothing more. An easier task than trying to read "The Phenomenology of the Mind" to start. Excited for the "Complex World" as I had been interested in it for a while.
November 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Weekend additions to the bookcase. I was never a fan of Hegel until I came across this book. Exactly what I need at this stage and nothing more. An easier task than trying to read "The Phenomenology of the Mind" to start. Excited for the "Complex World" as I had been interested in it for a while.
Excited that my latest talk at the Complexity Lounge is now on YouTube. Titled "Humberto Maturana’s Time: Living in the Present," this talk explores Maturana's 2 modalities of time. This was a great project with new insights gained into how Maturana understood time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHY...
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Excited that my latest talk at the Complexity Lounge is now on YouTube. Titled "Humberto Maturana’s Time: Living in the Present," this talk explores Maturana's 2 modalities of time. This was a great project with new insights gained into how Maturana understood time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHY...
Impressed by this view no matter how many times I climb this mountain. Of the peaks in town, this is my favorite.
Not pictured: The (partially) planned twilight descent. Fun was had by all.
At Green Mountain, in Boulder, Colorado.
Not pictured: The (partially) planned twilight descent. Fun was had by all.
At Green Mountain, in Boulder, Colorado.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Impressed by this view no matter how many times I climb this mountain. Of the peaks in town, this is my favorite.
Not pictured: The (partially) planned twilight descent. Fun was had by all.
At Green Mountain, in Boulder, Colorado.
Not pictured: The (partially) planned twilight descent. Fun was had by all.
At Green Mountain, in Boulder, Colorado.
The latest on the blog - Cassette Mixtapes and Complex Systems. Still in the vein of "How do we communicate complexity to others?" Also aligned with general exploration in complex systems concerned with variety and the possibilities it can actualize.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/mixtapes
www.gregoryvig.com/p/mixtapes
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The latest on the blog - Cassette Mixtapes and Complex Systems. Still in the vein of "How do we communicate complexity to others?" Also aligned with general exploration in complex systems concerned with variety and the possibilities it can actualize.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/mixtapes
www.gregoryvig.com/p/mixtapes
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Francisco Varela: “The only world we humans know is the one we can create together through the actions of our coexistence.”
April 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Francisco Varela: “The only world we humans know is the one we can create together through the actions of our coexistence.”
Was able to borrow this through interlibrary loan, in exactly this shape, while preparing my talk for Maturana's time. A short read, but I do not think I captured it all. Maturana was taught Heidegger by Dreyfus and his writing started to reflect that, beginning in 1988. Worth exploring it seems.
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Was able to borrow this through interlibrary loan, in exactly this shape, while preparing my talk for Maturana's time. A short read, but I do not think I captured it all. Maturana was taught Heidegger by Dreyfus and his writing started to reflect that, beginning in 1988. Worth exploring it seems.
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Edgar Morin's "Towards a Study of Humankind Volume 1: The Nature of Nature."
I believe this is the only English translation of Morin's 12 (?) total volumes, unfortunately (very much so).
But we have volume one which is, on the whole, focused on complexity and a great philosophical read.
I believe this is the only English translation of Morin's 12 (?) total volumes, unfortunately (very much so).
But we have volume one which is, on the whole, focused on complexity and a great philosophical read.
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Edgar Morin's "Towards a Study of Humankind Volume 1: The Nature of Nature."
I believe this is the only English translation of Morin's 12 (?) total volumes, unfortunately (very much so).
But we have volume one which is, on the whole, focused on complexity and a great philosophical read.
I believe this is the only English translation of Morin's 12 (?) total volumes, unfortunately (very much so).
But we have volume one which is, on the whole, focused on complexity and a great philosophical read.
Good morning, Saturday.
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Good morning, Saturday.
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“You think that because you understand ‘One’ that you must therefore understand ‘Two’ because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand ‘and.’
Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows
September 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
“You think that because you understand ‘One’ that you must therefore understand ‘Two’ because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand ‘and.’
Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows
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"Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation"
Humberto Maturana
Man Looking at Woman, by Adolph Gottlieb #Art
Humberto Maturana
Man Looking at Woman, by Adolph Gottlieb #Art
September 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
"Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation"
Humberto Maturana
Man Looking at Woman, by Adolph Gottlieb #Art
Humberto Maturana
Man Looking at Woman, by Adolph Gottlieb #Art
This is one of my favorite recent blog posts. Writing about how we talk about complexity to others, especially those who have never heard of it, is so important to me. A sense of complexity seems like it's a critical part of a grander ongoing transition.
I have been meaning to write this for a while, but was recently inspired to sit down and do so. A look at introducing complexity beyond technical, theoretical, and terminology-based approaches. The goal was to find a certain clearness in its communication.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/introducin...
www.gregoryvig.com/p/introducin...
Communicating Complexity
Thoughts on clearly communicating complexity to others.
www.gregoryvig.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is one of my favorite recent blog posts. Writing about how we talk about complexity to others, especially those who have never heard of it, is so important to me. A sense of complexity seems like it's a critical part of a grander ongoing transition.
Reposted by Gregory Vigneaux
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
Reposted by Gregory Vigneaux
"Complex systems have a history. Not only do they evolve through time, but their past is co-responsible for their present behaviour. Any analysis of a complex system that ignores the dimension of time is incomplete"
- Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems
- Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems
October 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"Complex systems have a history. Not only do they evolve through time, but their past is co-responsible for their present behaviour. Any analysis of a complex system that ignores the dimension of time is incomplete"
- Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems
- Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems
After the settling and depletion following a big talk, there is a lull that is filled with energy and exhaustion. A potential impeded by tiredness.
I hope what I have written during that time will be the beginning of my next journal publication. I am enjoying writing beyond the blog.
I hope what I have written during that time will be the beginning of my next journal publication. I am enjoying writing beyond the blog.
November 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
After the settling and depletion following a big talk, there is a lull that is filled with energy and exhaustion. A potential impeded by tiredness.
I hope what I have written during that time will be the beginning of my next journal publication. I am enjoying writing beyond the blog.
I hope what I have written during that time will be the beginning of my next journal publication. I am enjoying writing beyond the blog.
I gave my last planned talk of the year on November 18th at the Complexity Lounge titled "Humberto Maturana's Time: Living in the Present." I will post the YouTube link here on the platform when it becomes available. This was a great talk to research and put together, definitely a favorite.
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I gave my last planned talk of the year on November 18th at the Complexity Lounge titled "Humberto Maturana's Time: Living in the Present." I will post the YouTube link here on the platform when it becomes available. This was a great talk to research and put together, definitely a favorite.
Your invitation to come see me talk about time from the perspective of the giant Humberto Maturana!
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Gregory Vigneaux - Humberto Maturana’s Time: Living in the Present, Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
We are thrilled to welcome Gregory Vigneaux back to the Lounge. Greg has made a deep study of the work of one of the giants in complexity theory, Humberto Maturana.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Your invitation to come see me talk about time from the perspective of the giant Humberto Maturana!
www.meetup.com/complexitylo...
www.meetup.com/complexitylo...