Consilience: A New Way to See the World

25/05/2021

I had fun on this podcast... Larry Olsen had really dug deep into my book and had some great questions and anecdotes.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/understanding-everything/id1517914071?i=1000523051293

13/05/2021

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03/05/2021

This 20 minute video explains Consciousness without hard-to-understand words and theories. Consciousness is a basic function of neuronal systems that began taking shape during the Cambrian era over 500 million years ago. It is how animals, including us, create the sense of the world around us.

Disagree or have other ideas - please comment.

30/04/2021

Join us on Interintellect for a debate about consilience. On Monday May 17th

https://interintellect.com/event/can-consilience-save-us/

In this salon, Tom Beakbane explores the concept of consilience: the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can “converge” on strong conclusions. Consilience is a new mode of …

29/04/2021

It is so gratifying when folk from around the world who have read the book reach out to me and then write heartfelt reviews.

Tech entrepreneur and author Jacques Ludik from South Africa wrote, "I really think it is groundbreaking and would definitely recommend this to everyone... There is so much to explore with this and many things to unpack in almost every chapter. We need people to embrace this "inductive mode of thinking" to not only make better sense of the world but to also help shape a beneficial human-centric future for humanity from the bottom up. This is a message that needs to go viral."

Happy to report book sales are climbing and I'm getting lots of booksing on various podcasts.

20/04/2021

I have started doing the podcast circuit. Feedback on my comments is welcome.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1421593/8364358-an-interview-with-the-author-tom-beakbane-about-his-new-book-how-to-understand-everything-consilience-a-new-way-to-see-the-world

This is a first for me, having a recorded conversation with somebody I have just met. I will say however Tom's book is incredibly interesting and challenging in many ways. He takes an alternative look at everything we think is right in the world a...

19/03/2021

Consilience is the fusion of different domains of human experience that reveals that how we think, is not how is commonly believed. It allows us to understand ourselves, and those around us, in new ways.
Consilience is a new paradigm that I reckon is as profound as the dawn of science.

https://youtu.be/p4DeBJEmGiw

“Consilience” is a word that was coined in 1840 by Dr. William Whewell, who was a professor and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his terminology, con...

11/03/2021

Thank you to the posters of these reviews! The number of positive reviews are mounting. I'm surprised I haven't caught more flak given some of the controversial topics I cover in the book.

11/03/2021

The audiobook is now available.
https://howtounderstandeverything.beakbane.com/2021/03/09/audiobook/

The audiobook for How to Understand Everything is now available.

02/03/2021

Wednesday at noon... join me on Google Meet.

Remarkable breakthroughs in genetics, cell biology, computing and other disciplines are revealing that many of the traditional ways of making sense of human behavior are misleading.

Now we can see how our brains work and it is not how we thought.

Join me, Tom Beakbane, author of the just-published book How to Understand Everything. Consilience: A New Way to See the World.

Wednesday March 3 at noon (EST). For 10 minutes I’ll explain what consilience is and how it can be put to use by thought leaders in business, education and politics. Then we can discuss.

If you deal with people — and we all do, wouldn’t it be useful to know how our brains really work?

Wednesday March 3, 2021 at noon EST. See below for the Google Meet link.

05/02/2021

Writing a book is a journey of self-discovery as well as technological discovery.

I have just approved Philip Battley's reading of the audiobook — all mediated through Amazon's ACX site. On December 23 I uploaded the manuscript and within hours had 8 readers provided 7 minute auditions. The production process then clicked along guided by ACX.

The 11 hours 50 minute reading is now being checked over by Amazon before going live - all being well, by the end of the month.

If it was not for the lockdown Philip would likely have been unavailable because he is a sought after stage and movie actor.

He also happens to have a degree in sociology and politics from Cambridge University which meant that he was already familiar with many of the concepts I write about — including E.O. Wilson's book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge that he was warned off by his professors.

And so, the combination of technology, the lockdown and Philip's personal journey have made the production of this audiobook both possible and straightforward.

https://fb.watch/3tbI6n4xL4/

02/02/2021

How to Understand Everything has been released on Reedsy - a site where independent authors review each others books.

https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/how-to-understand-everything-consilience-a-new-way-to-see-the-world-tom-beakbane

31/01/2021

How to Understand Everything. Consilience: A New Way to See the World is a book by Tom Beakbane

31/01/2021

How to Understand Everything. Consilience: A New Way to See the World is a book by Tom Beakbane

31/01/2021

How to Understand Everything. Consilience: A New Way to See the World is a book by Tom Beakbane

31/01/2021

How to Understand Everything. Consilience: A New Way to See the World is a book by Tom Beakbane

31/01/2021

The ebook and paperback are now available on Amazon for a low introductory price.

28/01/2021

28/01/2021

28/01/2021

The biggest joy I have derived from writing this book have been the conversations where readers have recounted the "neural symphonies" it has sparked. Several have stated that it puts their "thinking into words." In one case it triggered thoughts about re-launching a consulting practice.
A frustration however, has been the challenge of getting reviews on Amazon, particularly outside Canada. They are essential for generating momentum.
If you can help I will be eternally grateful! 😁

26/01/2021

Philip Battley — who is from London — narrates the book by Tom Beakbane called How to Understand Everything. Consilience: A New Way to See the World

Philip is a versatile actor having played John Harding in Downton Abbey, Frank Hastings and Milo Falconer in Doctors for BBC1, as Pieter in the Netflix series Mia and Me, and in the comedy feature Wild Target (Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt, Rupert Grint, directed by Jonathan Lynn. He has also appeared as Steve Ludgate in ITV’s Emmerdale.

Also an accomplished stage actor having played Julius P. Hersheimmer in Agatha Christie’s Partners In Crime at the Queen’s Theatre.

The award-winning Sogni D’Oro (Dreams of Gold), was produced & stars him, was an official selection at numerous 2014/15 film festivals, including LA Shorts, New York Independent Film, Boston Film and Newport Beach Film Festivals. Sogni D’Oro won Best Drama at the Portobello Film Festival 2014.He has narrated over 20 full-length audiobooks.

20/01/2021

Are you sometimes puzzled by how people behave?
There is a new way to understand human beings — and everything else.

It’s known as consilience.

Consilience is a new paradigm that reveals how things self-organize from the bottom up – in contrast to how we think and communicate, which is from the top down.

This new paradigm exposes the realities of human nature on both personal and collective levels revealing the overlap between different domains of life: family, health, business, technology, politics, and spirituality.

Consilience will help you see things differently – and make people less puzzling.

20/01/2021

There is a new way to understand human beings — and everything else.

It’s known as consilience.

Consilience is a new paradigm that reveals how things self-organize from the bottom up – in contrast to how we think and communicate, which is from the top down.

This new paradigm exposes the realities of human nature on both personal and collective levels revealing the overlap between different domains of life: family, health, business, technology, politics, and spirituality.

Consilience will help you see things differently – and make people less puzzling.

20/01/2021

Let's dislodge some brain cells.

There is a new way to understand human beings — and everything else.

It’s known as consilience.

Consilience is a new paradigm that reveals how things self-organize from the bottom up – in contrast to how we think and communicate, which is from the top down.

This new paradigm exposes the realities of human nature on both personal and collective levels revealing the overlap between different domains of life: family, health, business, technology, politics, and spirituality.

Consilience will help you see things differently – and make people less puzzling.

20/01/2021

There is a new way to understand human beings — and everything else.

It’s known as consilience.

Consilience is a new paradigm that reveals how things self-organize from the bottom up – in contrast to how we think and communicate, which is from the top down.

This new paradigm exposes the realities of human nature on both personal and collective levels revealing the overlap between different domains of life: family, health, business, technology, politics, and spirituality.

Consilience will help you see things differently – and make people less puzzling.

20/01/2021

Are you sometimes puzzled by how people behave?
There is a new way to understand human beings — and everything else.

It’s known as consilience.

Consilience is a new paradigm that reveals how things self-organize from the bottom up – in contrast to how we think and communicate, which is from the top down.

This new paradigm exposes the realities of human nature on both personal and collective levels revealing the overlap between different domains of life: family, health, business, technology, politics, and spirituality.

Consilience will help you see things differently – and make people less puzzling.