Papers by Michael K Salvatore
Academia Letters
This extended-length draft of the published paper examines multiple distinct scientific and philo... more This extended-length draft of the published paper examines multiple distinct scientific and philosophical theories that suggest a consilience of qualitative descriptions of order and chaos.
Academia Letters, 2022
Among its many characteristics, the modern period of the West is marked by an unprecedented expan... more Among its many characteristics, the modern period of the West is marked by an unprecedented expansion of knowledge about the inner workings of reality. While this focus on physicalism and reductionism has produced prosperity that evokes the ease of Eden, the splitting and subjugation of mind under matter has cost us a clear and compelling vision for existence. A malaise of alienation and cynicism has filled the void, a response to the apparent indifference of an entropic universe in which consciousness is a mere epiphenomenon of matter. Despite this deadening dismemberment, significant efforts have been made to reunify and revitalize the cosmos. The ultimate vision of this approach is best characterized by biologist E.O. Wilson's revival of the term consilience, which suggests a reconciliation of not only the sciences, but science, the humanities, arts, and religion. He envisions an ultimate convergence on a small plurality of natural laws-in essence, the unification of all knowledge. 1 A promising exemplar of his vision is complexity theory, a computer science-led approach to understanding the emergence of self-organizing dynamic systems as disparate as organisms, cities, and economies. 2 Put briefly, this theory suggests that, across scales of organization, flexible orders persist on the edge of chaos, "a grand compromise between structure and surprise." 3 They must avoid becoming too "frozen" and "rigid" to continue development, or too "gaseous" "and chaotic." 4 These systems' resistance to wholly material and reductive analysis leads complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman towards a bold conclusion: the dialectical balance between order and chaos can be a "reimagining [of] God as the natural creativity in
Archai, Jan 24, 2020
This article presents an overview of Carl Jung's psychological type model, focusing on what is kn... more This article presents an overview of Carl Jung's psychological type model, focusing on what is known as the "cognitive processes," combinations of the extroversion-introversion dichotomy and the functions of thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting. The paper then draws out comparisons to the astrological archetypes of the planets, suggesting some correspondence between these diverge models of the psyche.
Drafts by Michael K Salvatore
This essay draws from various official texts on Moral Foundations Theory to provide a comprehensi... more This essay draws from various official texts on Moral Foundations Theory to provide a comprehensive description of each of the six moral foundations, looking at their hypothesized evolutionary origins; related bio-, psycho-, and sociological theories; and the original and extended domains and experiences of life that trigger the moral matrices.
This paper provides an overview the historical precedence and theoretical underpinnings of the ge... more This paper provides an overview the historical precedence and theoretical underpinnings of the generational cycle theory of William Strauss and Neil Howe, best known as the Fourth Turning. It also addresses its relevance to the history of the United States and its living generations.
This article presents an overview of Carl Jung's psychological type model, focusing on what is kn... more This article presents an overview of Carl Jung's psychological type model, focusing on what is known as the "cognitive processes," combinations of the extroversion-introversion dichotomy and the functions of thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting.
This extended-length draft of the published paper examines multiple distinct scientific and philo... more This extended-length draft of the published paper examines multiple distinct scientific and philosophical theories that suggest a consilience of qualitative descriptions of order and chaos.
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Papers by Michael K Salvatore
Drafts by Michael K Salvatore