Thomas Kuhn coined the term paradigm shift and used it to describe a change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science—an epistemological revolution in science. According to Kuhn, a scientific revolution occurs when scientists encounter anomalies which cannot be explained by the universally accepted paradigm by which scientific progress has heretofor been made. Wikipedia explains that in different disciplines, the term is used more generally. The discoveries of quantum physics constitute a genuine Kuhnian shift. However, in this paper, the term is applied to a dynamic emergent realization of the synergies between physics and psychology.
Published in Chapter:
Articulating the Paradigm Shift: Serious Games for Psychological Healing of the Collective Persona
Stephen Brock Schafer (Digipen Institute of Technology, USA)
Copyright: © 2012
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0149-9.ch019
Abstract
The author’s hypothesis covers the following: neural processes are correlated with archetypal states of the cognitive unconscious, archetypes form a magnetic field and energy center underlying the transformation of the psychic processes into images, as in Jungian dream analysis, images can be used to access dimensions of the cognitive unconscious, and drama-based video games (DBG) constitute a dream analog that can be employed as a cognitive research instrument. Therefore, using a dramatic-metaphorical point of reference, deep states of the psychic unconscious can be interrogated using Jungian principles of dream analysis, the most recent research in the cognitive sciences, and the mathematics of recursion in order to improve understanding of higher order cognitive functions, to apply compensational content patterns to the global media, and to foster sustainable, coherent human values and behaviors.