Wide Scale - Blog Posts
Theories can be crudely organized into a family tree where each might, at least in principle, be derivable from more fundamental ones above it
Bernard Carr, Universe or Multiverse?
The natural method involves seeking consistency and equilibrium among different modes of analysis applied to the study of some mental phenomenon…In the case of dreams, phenomenology, will supply us with first-person reports about how dreams seem, especially how particular dreams seem from the point of view of the person who has the dream.
The mental sciences—psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience—are needed to provide answers to a host of questions that are not answered by how things seem, even if we take how they seem to be as how they really are for the dreamer. The mental sciences will tell us about the objective side of dreams.
—Owen Flanagan, Dreaming Souls
“Distribution for 18 fingerprint pattern types + relative effect size (arrows) in the Big Five personality dimensions Neuroticism & Extraversion, plus derived tendencies for the four classic temperaments: Choleric, Melancholic, Phlegmatic & Sanguine; displayed percentages represent the lowest- and highest value observed among the 4 personality groups (N+, N-, E+ & E-).“
Jack R. Strange, "A Search for the Sources of the Stream of Consciousness", The Stream of Consciousness: Scientific Investigations into the Flow of Human Experience
The ‘Cognitive Science Hexagon’ redrawn from the original cover of the Sloan Foundation’s 1978 State of the Art Report on Cognitive Science
Gregg Henriques’ Tree of Knowledge System
[A] theory of scientific knowledge that defines the human knower in relation to the known. It achieves this novel accomplishment by solving the problem of psychology and giving rise to a truly consilient view of the scientific landscape. It accomplishes this via dividing the evolution of behavioral complexity into four different planes of existence….The ToK also characterizes modern empirical natural science as a kind of justification system that functions to map complexity and change.
Eugene Thacker, "Nine Disputations on Theology and Horror", Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development, Vol. IV
