About Small-Infinities

Small-Infinities is an independent lab focused on the human relationship to Simplicity and Complexity.

The basis of the lab begins with two observations. First: Simplicity and Complexity, as humans experience them, are not separate things but related, with pure Simplicity at one end of a line and pure Complexity at the other, and with all mixtures and combinations of the two found in the space that arises in between. Call this space Simplexity.  

The lab throws anything it can get its hands on at the exploration of this Simplexity space, and from as many different angles and perspectives as it likes: Psychology, neuroscience, interior design, visual arts, computer science, coding, learning, literature, allegory, and concerns for physical, mental and spiritual health.   

The second grounding observation of the lab is that our human capacity for awareness (consciousness, sense-of-self, ability to observe and represent our self and some of the universe around us) arises at least in part from, as is moment-to-moment shaped by our relationship to simplicity-complexity. This relationship generates an enormous dynamic space into which we each unfold and make our way. The space is so large that it forms a special kind of infinity. For fun I call this special infinity a Small Infinity. Each human generates and experiences a small infinity, and so, for fun, I call humans like you and me, small infinities. 

The mission of the Small-Infinities Lab combines these two observations:

“To help small infinities like you and me to thrive in the simplicities and complexities of the universe we find ourselves unfolding into moment to moment, dynamically, creatively and uniquely, throughout our lives.”