The authors

We hope you enjoy this journey through the poetic-scientific space of the inter-connectedness of all of our authors. Each one offers a unique view and insight into a reality that underlies our everyday experience of forms. They were all contemporaries who either knew each other, in some cases, or knew of one another's work. For example, Korzybski was known by Bachelard who wrote a couple of enthusiastic chapters about Korzybski's work in The Philosophy of No. Bois knew Korzybski personally, and he and Bohm both studied Korzybski's work. (So did hundreds of other scientists.) Bois entusiastically included the work of Silvan Tomkins within the discipline he called epistemics. Whyte did a keynote memorial address for the Institute of General Semantics in honor of Korzybski.

We chose these particular authors because they form a six-point structure that offers a more up-to-date and richer view of how we make meaning. They all embraced holism in one form or another, and, although each worked independently, we find they formed a commonality that we found unique in the 20th century.

The authors:

J. Samuel Bois
Gaston Bachelard
Lancelot Law Whyte
David Bohm
Silvan Tomkins
Alfred Korzybski