The Enchantment wanted to unify the sciences such as physics, biology, chemistry, etc. to create common natural laws. ... According to Descartes, reductionism is "the study of the world as an assemblage of physical parts that can be broken apart and analyzed separately- (31). ... The different branches of learning such as the social sciences, chemistry and biology are all possible pathways we can choose to get from one room to the next (73). ...
We all know they put in hours of grueling physical practice to get to the next level, but what separates the "great hopefuls" from the "great achievers" is not so much the physical preparation, but the mental. ... When an athlete imagines themselves performing an action in the absence of physical practice, they are using mental imagery. ... These are the same neutral patterns created as if you had actually performed the physical action (Plessingher 2). ... This blueprint is capable of putting body chemistry more in tune with muscle movement. ...
For Johnson, Thoreau's ecological perspective emerges in the writer's "observation and knowledge of the literal, physical world" in the work of his last decade that moves beyond his own (and not just Emerson's) use of metaphor to describe the physical world. (5) Lance Newman argues further that the "irreducibly material environment" of Concord that Thoreau records so palpably in his journals and unpublished natural history projects transforms his "writing and even his consciousness." ... The underlying problem concerns a misleading division drawn between the literal (understood ...