By M. Jackson
Transformative studying is a procedure during which we query all of the assumptions in regards to the global and ourselves that make up our worldview, visualize replacement assumptions, after which try out them in perform. the writer describes the method, providing a critique of latest assumptions, and indicates possible choices to demonstrate the method.
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What does it mean to ‘reconsider basic assumptions’? How is it done? And what follows after that? And, to begin with, what are these assumptions? To take the last question first, the basic assumptions of any culture are those concerning the terms – life, matter, time, space, law (causation) the self and knowing – that jointly determine the culture’s worldview. A number of people are demonstrating that the assumptions in respect of these in the contemporary worldview are inadequate to explain the new facts that are coming to light in all areas of life.
The threat has been banished – for the time being. Changing worldviews: students’ reactions to the Gaia theory Imagining the world as one big living system seemed a bit strange at first, but the more you think about it the more you wonder ‘why hasn’t anyone thought of that before’. Having never come across the concept before, I was very surprised at how easy I found the idea to swallow . 1st impression – what a pile of tree-hugging, hippy crap . It was interesting to me to see how conditioned is my mind to ‘conventional science’.
Special attention will be given to how students and scientists are reacting to it. A brief mention is made of its scientific rationale, the new theory of autopoeitic, or self-creating, self-generating and self-perpetuating, systems. Finally, the questions it leads to about current concepts of life and matter are framed, and alternative concepts are introduced in a tentative and preliminary way. The reaction of scientists The Gaia theory (Lovelock, 1979, 1995) is one of the most dramatic scientific developments of the 20th century, as far-reaching in its implications for how we conceive of the world as the findings of physicists exploring the subatomic realm.