The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
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The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
Jonathan Haidt has suggested that feelings are so much more central to our lives than reason that they dominate most of what we do and even form the basis of our moral judgment.
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
Animals, plants and other living beings spontaneously act according to their te, and because of that they flow with the way of nature – with the Tao.
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
wu-wei, or effortless action.
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
focuses on spatial patterns between things. It readily accepts an ambiguous or incomplete situation without trying to impose coherent meaning on it. It savors fluid, indeterminate and vague conditions. It’s also more closely connected with internal bodily experience, making its perception of the world more vibrant, filled with smell, sound and
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The best thing to do, they explain, when faced with a complex real-life, multidimensional problem,
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
The PFC allows us to think and act in ways that other animals don’t. It controls our basic physiological drives and enables us to plan, conceptualize and make abstract rules. It permits us to think symbolically – a prerequisite of the human language faculty.
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
The ability of the PFC to create abstract general principles from specific experiences is one of the most important characteristics of human intelligence. It permits the flexibility and adaptability that is a hallmark of human cognition.