Shweder's Conceptual Analysis

Pooled together, these quotes qualify our perceptions and how the relate to the real world. In a physical sense, there has to be a certain organic separation between our minds and the world around it, which is through the transmission of light and the coalescence of that information in our brains. I say organic because this particular separation is caused a natural and physiological sequence. But the intangible and “artificial” separation happens between the eyes and ears when we attempt to understand and interpret that information. Our perceptions, or the perceptions we cast onto our understanding of the real world, are artificial because previous experiences, notions, prejudices, and opinions have affected them. And as they are subjective, hold fallacies, and are not uniform between any two humans, these perceptions are not honestly true, and therefore artificial. Separately, I take some issue with Shweder’s diction of people’s “theoretical interpretation” to understand the real world. Coming from a science academic background, I am accustomed to proven …show more content…
For many that is God or a spiritual being, and for others it is science or simply just fate. Humans are capable of recognizing what they do not know (i.e. how the universe began/who or what created it, are there more universes, is there an afterlife). In order to explain these, we can put our trust in God or in Science. Both place the unknown in a certain faith that someone or something holds the answer. Einstein even penned a letter saying that there is a higher scientific law that understands the unknown (link provided). I would not necessarily agree that “final laws of nature” are specifically placed in God, but akin to Einstein, I think that there is a general final law, whether it is God or something entirely different, that holds the final law… whatever it may