Posted by d j lancaster on March 13, 1999 at 14:08:33:
In Reply to: Consilience posted by Bryce on March 11, 1999 at 21:48:31:
My objections are two-fold: first, that consilience is patently obvious in many contexts (so why the need to write a book about it.
Yes, I too, find this concept so obvious that the idea of needing to craft a new symbol to promote recognition of pattern integration causes me to wonder how much brain damage has been done by this century's educational training? The catagorical seperation of fact as imposed by our schooling systems appears to have greatly diminished the capacity to reason at the higher levels where cohesion and sequence are obvious attributes of our everyday world. The seperation of fact into specific categories (as advanced by drill and repetition practices) seems to have created a brain behavior that instantly disrupts the composition of reality into fragments.
Maybe people are beginning to recognize the dangers of 'behavioral modification' in the training experience. I suppose this could be an indication that the knowledge of brain behavior is taking an important place in the learning process.
How the brain behaves regulates our response capabilities as it effects our environment and realtionships. How the brain is trained will effect an individual his entire life.
dj