Current Research Projects

LINPR Research Project Summary
By Dr. Sudip Patra
August 2022

1. Extending Quantum-like framework of decision making to group decision making, organization behaviors, or social networking. In this area objective would be to continue ongoing collaborations, and align them to the overall values and objectives of new paradigm research at the institute.

2. Developing on relations between complex adaptive systems and quantum-like framework, for example in complexity economics it has been observed that deep uncertainty in economy plays a fundamental role in evolution of economies, but quantum-like framework might provide a concrete language of describing such ontological uncertainty.

3. Developing frameworks or models for policy decision making based on quantum-like approaches for decision making. Here the objective would be to continue on current projects, for example with existing PhD scholars whom I am mentoring. Collaborating with the Laszlo Institute would help significantly since we would be able to team up with policy thinkers in this regard. Currently one-project deals with developing a human-AI algorithm based on quantum-like approach (with one of my PhD students).

4. Developing further on the Quantum foundations works with other Scientists, but also to develop holistic philosophical thinking that would align quantum science with complex adaptive world we are inheriting. For example, a frontier research objective in foundations is quantum and chaos. Relational quantum theory is another frontier field opening up. What such new frameworks may offer for worldviews in this age of information and complexity?

LINPR Research Project Summary
By Angelo Luidens
2025

Objectives and Expected Outcomes

A paradigm shift asks more of us than arriving at a new set of ideas. It asks us to cross a threshold — to move from one way of making sense of reality to another, while the ground between the two is still forming. This project is concerned with that crossing, emerging from a central question: How do we coherently map and facilitate the paradigm shift we collectively advocate?

The objective is to develop a “Paradigm Navigation Framework” – a transdisciplinary lens for understanding how paradigm shifts unfold. The framework will:

1. Surface the stress points – identifying persistent scientific anomalies as signals of systemic strain within the materialist paradigm.
2. Recontextualize through a new lens – showing how these anomalies become coherent when viewed through consciousness-centric models, such as the Akashic field.
3. Map the passage itself – modeling the phase transition where old structures dissolve, coherence fragments, and new patterns crystallize.

What This Will Produce:

• Scholarly Framework – a formalized “Paradigm Navigation Framework”article for World Futures.
• Applied Case Studies – analysis of 2-3 key anomalies (e.g., non-locality in quantum physics, placebo/nocebo efficacy) as practical exemplars.
• Umbrella Project Integration – thematic analysis showing how disparate Institute research areas (Science, Medicine, Business, Education) contribute to the larger paradigm puzzle, offering narrative cohesion.
• Community Tool – a distilled version of the framework to stimulate and structure monthly community dialogues.

Research Hypothesis and Guiding Questions

A paradigm shift is a systemic phase transition in collective consciousness – observable through the structured integration of anomalies. This process can be mapped and facilitated using a transdisciplinary framework that honors phenomenological, comparative, and historical levels of analysis, much like the layers of the Iceberg Model.

The shift is not random. It has a discernible structure. If we learn to read it – tracing anomalies through the patterns they reveal and the worldviews they challenge – we gain the capacity not only to understand the shift, but to navigate it with purpose.

Guiding Questions:

1. Identification – What distinguishes a genuinely paradigm-challenging anomaly from a puzzle the existing system can still absorb?
2. Integration – How do diverse New Paradigm domains each offer complementary explanations for these anomalies?
3. Transition – What recognizable stages – from anomaly recognition to worldview restructuring – characterize a paradigm shift, and what can liminality and emergence teach us about this passage?
4. Narrative – How can this framework synthesize the Institute’s projects into a unified “Umbrella” narrative of conscious evolution?

Theoretical Framework

Four converging traditions ground this project:

• Consciousness-Centric Ontology – the premise that consciousness is the ground of reality, not a byproduct of matter, aligning with the Akashic field.
• Complex Systems Science – modeling paradigms as stable states and shifts as phase transitions, where small perturbations cascade into reorganization.
• The Systems Thinking Iceber Model – moving beyond surface events to uncover the patterns, structures, and mental models that generate them. Applied here to trace anomalies to the worldviews they destabilize.
• New Paradigm Science – engaging with the Institute’s work on liminality, patterning, and coherence as the dynamics of transformation.

Together, these create a distinctive integrative theory: the consciousness field (Laszlo) undergoing a phase transition (Complex Systems) mediated by liminal coherence (New Paradigm Science).

Research Methodology

The research follows a transdisciplinary, three-phase methodology:
Phase 1 — Foundation: Listening to the Anomalies
A systematic literature review catalogs persistent scientific anomalies, applying Complex Systems criteria to distinguish genuine paradigm challenges from resolvable puzzles.
Output: a prioritized anomaly catalog mapped to the materialist assumptions they strain.

Phase 2 — Integration: Building the Framework
Consciousness-centric models are bridged with anomaly data through theoretical synthesis, while the Iceberg Model maps systemic layers of paradigm clashes — from observable events through patterns to the mental models at stake.
Output: a draft “Paradigm Navigation Framework” and 2-3 case study manuscripts.

Phase 3 — Synthesis and Community Engagement
The framework is applied to active LINPR research projects through thematic analysis, with iterative refinement in monthly community meetings.
Output: “Connecting LINPR Research Through the Paradigm Shift Lens” report and a facilitated dialogue session.

Potential Impact

For the Laszlo Institute:

• A shared analytical lens that deepens collaborative capacity – revealing how diverse contributions fit together.
• A thematic integration tool for the Umbrella Project, strengthening internal coherence and external communication.
• Publishable scholarship advancing the core mission of New Paradigm Science.

For the Broader Landscape

• A rigorous response to how paradigm change actually happens – moving beyond critique into actionable process.
• A model of academic praxis that is both intellectually rigorous and consciously engaged.
• Practical implications for New Paradigm Education (paradigm flexibility) and Policy (managing societal transitions with wisdom).

Honest Boundaries

• Case selection scope. Examining 2-3 anomalies allows depth but not full spectrum coverage. Subsequent cycles will test the framework more broadly.
• Transdisciplinary tradeoff. The contribution is integration across domains, not exhaustive specialist treatment within any one.
• Ontological starting point. Reception beyond the New Paradigm community will depend on the quality of the bridge this consciousness-centric framework builds.
• Theoretical, not yet empirical. Whether the framework can demonstrably facilitate paradigm shift processes is a question for future applied research.
• Community as co-creator. The synthesis phase depends on active LINPR participation; the framework will be shaped by the engagement it receives.

Project Summary

This is an internal initiative – born from within the Institute’s ongoing inquiry. The “Paradigm Navigation Framework” gives the community’s shared question a shared structure: a coherent map for understanding how the paradigm shift we collectively study actually unfolds. By turning attention to the transition itself, this project offers both a scholarly contribution to New Paradigm Science and a practical tool for the LINPR community to consciously co-create the paradigm it is dedicated to realizing.