PSY230H1 Lecture Notes - Microworlds, Dasein, Personal Identity
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Lecture 2- (reading) the meaning of meaning (peterson) World is too complex to manage without simplification. Meanings = baseline for radical functional simplification. Determinate: having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary, fixed; established; definite. Error: must be recognized and eliminated as a consequence of voluntary exploration, generation of information and update or reconstruction of skill and representation. Bad things must be approached and conquered. If we act out the hero stories the significance of our being may overshadow our weakness. 1st class of meanings: meanings of determinate world, motivations. Does not drive behaviour in deterministic manner. Provides current state of being with boundaries and values. Micro-worlds of experience: bounded states guided by motivation. Present position cannot be defined without a point of future contrast. Potential future cannot be evaluated except in terms of a present position. Perception: we are low-capacity processors, we can apprehend less than 7 objects.
