PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Umwelt, Rogers Hi-Speed Internet, Caveman
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Three personal themes: adapting to our worlds (adjustment, finding meaning of our worlds (where am i and what is going on?, finding beauty in our worlds and expressing ourselves in our world (building a frame) In our science? (innovative thinking, learning to think critically) We are in the middle of something and nothing at the same time. Puts you n an existential frame, gives you a sense of where we are in the universe. Time is shown in a linear way but not logarithmic. Travelling though 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. Everything is accelerating, we see ourselves as very futuristic, however when they look back 500 years from not they will view us differently. Concept of thrownness- we are thrown into a particular world in a particular time.
