Aristotle

Aristotle was a classical greek philosopher. He pioneered ideas of dynamical systems.

Vervaeke quote
"The first of these connections was cradled by the Aristotelean worldview, where there existed a powerful affinity between objective reality and subjective perception. This worldview had two components: an account of how the mind viewed the world, and an account of how that world was structured. For Aristotle, these accounts were integrated and mutually supporting. To know something was to understand its form, but “form” didn’t primarily mean the shape of a thing. It meant the deep structure that governed its organization. A bird, for instance, was not constituted by features and anatomy (feathers, talons, beak, flight, etc.) but from the underlying structure by which these features were cohered and animated. And just as hand conforms to the spatial organization of an object when grasping it, so does the mind conform to the structural organization of the world when it notionally grasps its structure. This was the Aristotelean knowing, a deep, structural conformity between mind and world.

One of the most fortifying elements of Aristotle’s worldview was that it allowed criteria for falsification, a checklist for reliably determining whether or not something in the world was real:
 * 1) ensure the perceiving organ was not malfunctioning (i. e. the quality of our eyesight),
 * 2) that the intervening medium was not distorted (clarity of day or night) and
 * 3) that the perception had consensus with others. Perception that passes these tests imbues information―it possesses the perceiving individual of the form of the thing perceived.

Aristotle’s affinity between mind and world extended and reflected the mind’s intentionality into the properties of the universe. Everything moved with purpose in this worldview, and an intrinsic sense of belonging coordinated the natural direction of all actions and objects (smoke to clouds, objects to earth, etc.). The earth was at the centre of a purposeful cosmos, an inherently beautiful and ordered place that made sense to us, resonated with our experience and gave us the sense of understanding the world and our place within it. Since it has to do with the fundamental principles by which knowledge and reality co-operate, we call this worldview the Nomological Order (“nomos” means law or rule)."

- John Vervaeke

Vervaeke mentions

 * https://www.meaningcrisis.co/episode-6-aristotle-kant-and-evolution/
 * https://www.meaningcrisis.co/episode-7-aristotles-world-view-and-erich-fromm/
 * https://www.meaningcrisis.co/episode-8-the-buddha-and-mindfulness/
 * https://www.meaningcrisis.co/ep-14-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-epicureans-cynics-and-stoics/