PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Umwelt, Renaissance Humanism, Thrownness

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Three personal themes: adapting to our worlds, finding meaning [finding meaning] in our worlds [fundamental concept of adjustment, finding beauty in our worlds and expressing ourselves in our worlds. The powers of 10 series of videos, available on youtube, help us gain perspective regarding orders of magnitude. The video first zooms out from a picnic scene and then, in the second part, zooms in toward quarks. Point of video, to put us where we are, realization of nature of our life. Time in this video is not shown in a linear way, but in a logarithmic one. Travelling through orders of magnitude means that time is slowing down by a factor of ten each time. In a linear movie, our presence on earth would simply not appear. Humans have been here for the last million years as compared to 4500 million years for the.

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