Jan 25 2006
on subject headings
Today I found a fabulous LCSH subject heading, if not one of the best ones I have ever encountered:
Space and time — social aspects.
The metaphysical implications astound me. A coworker & I were trying to figure out what such a heading might be used for. Accounts of intergalatic parties? Experiences from another dimension?
In real life, the heading seems to be used for either post/modernist tracts, or anthropological architectural accounts. In my imagination, though, it’s used to catalog The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…
3 responses so far
Well, I don’t know about you, but my social life has certainly been impaired by my comfinement within the limitations of three dimensional space. And don’t get me started on the infernal linearity of time.
Well, I don’t know about you, but my social life has certainly been impaired by my comfinement within the limitations of three dimensional space. And don’t get me started on the infernal linearity of time.
I think the original similarity/link between psychology and physics was in methodology – psych. borrowed the scientific method to research human behaviour, and the outcry against this ‘soft science’ absconding with a heretofore rigorous approach to research was enormous. You can’t see what’s going on inside a human’s psyche, went the outcry, whereas you can see Science At Work. It must all be a load of twaddle, sang the critics.
Except then physics went quantum, and the similarities increased. And I know I always see human behaviour as probabilities…