GYS
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ME

Born in 1976, Bruges, I came a long way from my days of having a one-man office in a small room in Ghent. I studied some archaeology at Leuven University, Graphic Design at Sint-Lucas Ghent, some Computer Generated Imagery at UFT Toronto and was freelance for over 20 years.  Being interested in a wide array of knowledge on a variety of subjects, useful or not I lately became rather intrigued in thinking concepts that emerge from combining insights from fields that don’t seem connected.
I’m a proud father of two sons (22 y and 12 y), philanthropist, global citizen, piano player, drummer, terrible cello player, music&soundsmaker, comic/whisky collector and motorcyclist in heart and soul.

BIO
Earlier I was chairman of The Fellows, a project of the PostGraduate School of Thinking at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and still attempting to start my PhD candidate at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA) VUB. I hold an MA in Arts from the Luca School Of Arts of Ghent and a postgraduate at the School of Thinking (VUB). Simultaneously, I act as ceo of Planet Polaris (BE) a creative group with two headquarters in Europe, representing creative and technical talent in the fields of marketing and commmunication for over 20 years.

Being interested, for years, in a wide array of knowledge fields, and a broad spectrum of subjects, either useful or not, I became intrigued in thinking concepts that emerge from combining insights from seemingly unconnected fields. Today, I’m exploring my conceptions of a potential new theory of ambicentric vs. monocentric thinking, investigating how human beings could put an emphasis, in their relations towards the other, on the mindset rather than on the actions (or the results) in order to create a framework for identifying thinking processes, in such a way that it adds new dimensions to our worldview but also provides us, from the early start of the process, with an awareness of the worldview of the other. The expected outcome of this study is firstly, to contribute to the theoretical discourse in thinking concepts and the cognitive orientation / exploration of the individual in particular, or the explorative community in general. Secondly, to transpose the thus created contribution to an applied explorative framework and methodology and thirdly, to apply this framework and methodology from theory, to practice into a new format looking at our worldview from other meta perspectives. Simultaneously, I’m particularly interested in the resurgence in research on psychedelics over the last two decades and how naturally occurring psychedelic prodrugs might add new dimensions to our theory of mind, crucial for success in everyday human social interactions.

EXPLORATIVES

Lately I am highly intrigued by the responsibility in thinking processes, truth / post truth, freedom, social systems and how and why this influences / affects the individuation process, ontology / ontogenesis & the worldviews of human species.

Topics & Interests:  deception and self-delusion, responsibility in thinking processes, truth / post truth, freedom in thinking and actions, educational systems fostering attitudes and dispositions of thinking, social systems and how and why these globalities can influence the individuation process, the ontology / ontogenesis & worldviews of human species.

RESEARCH on Plexorealism

My research develops Plexorealism as a contemporary worldview that rejects the forced choice between hard “facts” and soft “perspectives”.
It argues that human beings are not autonomous islands but nodes in dense relational webs: biological, social, technological, ecological and historical.

• Reality is conceptualised as having two inseparable faces – resistance (what pushes back: bodies, limits, ecosystems, consequences) and meaning (what cannot be measured yet can be lost: dignity, trust, memory, sacredness).
• Culture is analysed as a living repertoire of responses to vulnerability rather than a static identity container, which opens a trans-cultural comparison of how societies organise pain, conflict, desire and death.
• Identity is reframed as a “contact zone” where selves emerge through encounters, translation and friction, instead of as a fixed essence or defensive fortress.
• Ethics is proposed as the maintenance of connection: the ongoing work of limiting harm, sustaining truthfulness, preserving pluralism and organising repair in damaged relationships and systems.
• Politics is reinterpreted beyond state and representation, as contestation over the infrastructures and conditions that make lives possible – energy, data, logistics, finance, standards.
• On planetary scale, the project reads humanity as “one species, many worlds” forced into de facto interdependence without prior moral consensus, especially under polycrisis conditions.

Meaning in life is understood not as a hidden metaphysical secret but as an emergent effect of how one’s presence makes the shared web less cruel, less stupid and more truthful.

Overall, the study sketches a new ideal of relational competence as a minimal form of adulthood for an entangled species.

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KUDOS TO

• Cadell Last – https://cadelllast.com/
• Ann Eysermans – http://www.anneysermans.be/
• Niki Vervaeke – https://www.arche-nv.be/
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