Jeremy Lent – The Patterning Intuition: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning

Jeremy Lent – The Patterning Intuition: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning

Taking the reader on an archaeological exploration of the thoughts, the writer, an entrepreneur and sustainability chief, makes use of latest findings in cognitive science and methods idea to disclose the hidden layers of values that kind at this time’s cultural norms.

• Uprooting the drained cliches of the science-faith debate, he reveals how medieval Christian rationalism acted as an incubator for scientific thought, which in flip formed our fashionable imaginative and prescient of the conquest of nature.
• The writer probes our present disaster of unsustainability and argues that it isn’t an inevitable outcome of human nature however is culturally pushed: a product of specific psychological patterns that might conceivably be reshaped.