GE CLST 73A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Neuron, Action Potential
13 Oct 2016
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Society nested in cosmos (everything had its place) Place defined by purpose/ made evident by observed qualities. Women=made of earth and water (made them more nurturing/fertile like earth) Men=made of air/fire => more power (cannot fall off earth) Earth=hierarchical, integrated, & static: everyone/everything had a defined place, idea backed by the aristotle, ptolemy, hippocrates, galen, & the church. Earth-cold & dry: black bile, autumn, taurus/virgo/capricorn. Fire-hot & dry: choler (yellow bile), summer, aries/leo/sagittarius. What are the choices: stick to traditional aristotelian views. The universities: turn to skepticism; deny any knowledge outside of direct personal experience, use a reasoning model to determine the key to true knowledge. The magi and the mechanical philosophers: develop a scheme of new revisionist knowledge based on empirical observations. Francis bacon of england 1561-1626: bacon"s vision of new atlantis. Building from observations to specific & then more general principles (axioms) Developing principles by eliminating variations in observations and defining commonalities.
