Psychology and physics.

Physics, Psychology, and Medicine

This 143-page essay by Professor Woodger is rewritten from a series of lectures given to the staff of the senior students of the Department of Physiology in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Additional material to the student lectures was derived from Professor Woodger's Tarner Lectures published in 1952 under the title, Biology and Language. Essentially this is a plea for a broader educat...

Psychology as Physics

Philosophy, Psychology, Physics and Practice of Ki

Ki (in Japanese) or Qi (in Chinese) is the key concept in Eastern medicine, Eastern philosophy, as well as in martial arts. We explain the philosophical and psychological background of Ki. We emphasize that the unique aspects of Eastern philosophy are 'non-linearity' and 'holistic' approach. We then present physics aspect of Ki. Our experiments demonstrated that a 'Ki-beam' carries 'entropy' (o...

The Singular Time of Psychology and Physics

The Special Theory of Relativity (STR) holds sway as a theory of time due to its apparently successful predictive structure regarding time-related phenomena such as the increased life spans of mesons or retarded clocks on jets circling the globe, and due to the relativization of simultaneity intrinsic to this theoretical structure. Yet the very structure of the theory demands that such very rea...

Contemporary Ideas in Physics and Biology in Gottlieb’s Psychology

Gilbert Gottlieb was among the leading theorists in all of psychology and his imprint on contemporary developmental science generally and to developmental psychobiology and comparative psychology in particular is difficult to overstate. In manywaysGottlieb’s early formulations (e.g., Gottlieb, 1973, 1984, 1985) regarding the dynamic multilevel transactions integrating biology and ecology in the...