PSYC 4220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Unearth, Quantum Mechanics, Attractor
14 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Chaos has meaning and order can occur spontaneously. Unpredictability and qualitative change are intrinsic to many systems in nature. A brief history of the way we know. The first way of knowing was based on myth, mysticism, and primitive belief systems. Then, beginning at about 600 b. c. , myth and mysticism were subsumed by rational discourse and religious beliefs disseminated around the globe. In the first axial period, scholarly endeavors were dominated by rational dialogue as exemplified by the socratic method. There was an assumption that rational discourse was the road to understanding the workings of the universe. The renaissance, the enlightenment, and empiricism augured the "second axial period" and. From the 1300s until the 20th century logical empiricism was the conceptual lens meant that humankind could take the physical measure of reality. through which individuals viewed the universe as well as themselves.
