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a. Psychology Understanding of cognition began with psychogenic theories derived from psychoanalysis — observation and study of mental associations made by patients during conversations with a psychological practitioner. It was found that maladaptive abnormalities in the psyche, what the medical field termed ‘neurosis’, could be linked to repression of thoughts and memories hidden under ordinary conditions, but … Continue reading Theory of Cognition
As was described, we have intuitions about the physical world that can be clarified with reference to objects: there are types of objects or object classes, wholes and parts, mutually exclusive positions, object interactions, persistences of structural integrity, larger objects forcing smaller ones to move, and substances conceived as in a state of perpetual stability or a state of perpetual motion. We … Continue reading Qualitative Intrastructural Reasoning
Human combat is one of the few contexts where primal instinct is unleashed without restraint, and so reveals much about the psyche that is not ordinarily observable. Its roots are in the fight-or-flight response, the surge of energy that prepares a physique under duress to defend itself when in danger or flee at maximal speeds, present to … Continue reading The Psychology and History of Violent Conflict
The first notions of the psyche's development were theorized with reference to 'libido', the formative spontaneity of an organism as it extends itself into surroundings, grappling with environments in order to meet its needs, primarily those of nutrition, reproduction and aptness of perception-driven response, for which processes the nervous system and especially the brain are the body's control center. Psychical libido was … Continue reading The Psychology and Institutions of Intimacy and Sexuality
The Big Bang theory is science's leading model of how our universe began, offering an explanation for background radiation that would have been produced by explosiveness of this event, also the way more distant galaxies seemingly accelerate into empty space at a faster clip, and more phenomena. This theory claims an extremely dense point of matter … Continue reading The Origins and Evolution of Perception in Organic Matter
We have encountered some indications of why the human psyche, its motivations and identity, seem more complex than most known species. Human creativity desires to fashion and refashion not only its environment but also a purpose transcending immediacies of its reality, the projections of imagination with a plasticity exceedingly liberated from attachment to instinctual drives and … Continue reading Human Motivation and its Place in the Development towards Contemporary Culture
The period from hominid evolution to human civilization is unprecedented in Earth’s history. Fossil records reveal that the majority of our planet’s past has been comprised of equilibriums lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, during which the composition and distribution of species remained extremely static. Primates have been around for 50 million … Continue reading Humanity and the Evolutionary Phenomenology of Preanthromorphic Cognition
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