Woollacott Marjorie, Shumway-Cook Anne, Tassell-Matamua Natasha
Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Explore (NY). 2023 Sep-Oct;19(5):630-635. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2023.03.005. Epub 2023 Mar 21.
Research suggests that worldviews define our relationship to the environment, including our responsibility to the environment and our planet. This paper examines two specific worldviews and their potential environmental impact: the materialist worldview, considered to be the dominant worldview of Western society, and the so-called post-materialist worldview. We believe that changing the worldview of both individuals and society is key to changing environmental ethics, specifically attitudes, beliefs, and actions towards the environment. Recent neuroscience research suggests that brain filters and networks contribute to concealing an expanded nonlocal awareness. This creates self-referential thinking and contributes to the limited conceptual framework characteristic of a materialist worldview. We discuss the underlying concepts of both materialist and post-materialist worldviews including their impact on environmental ethics, then explore the various types of neural filters and processing networks that contribute to a materialist worldview, and finally explore methods for modifying neural filters and changing worldviews.
研究表明，世界观决定了我们与环境的关系，包括我们对环境和地球的责任。本文考察了两种特定的世界观及其潜在的环境影响：唯物主义世界观，被认为是西方社会的主导世界观，以及所谓的后唯物主义世界观。我们认为，改变个人和社会的世界观是改变环境伦理的关键，特别是对环境的态度、信念和行动。最近的神经科学研究表明，大脑过滤器和网络有助于隐藏一种扩展的非局部意识。这产生了自我参照思维，并促成了唯物主义世界观所特有的有限概念框架。我们讨论了唯物主义和后唯物主义世界观的基本概念，包括它们对环境伦理的影响，然后探讨了促成唯物主义世界观的各种类型的神经过滤器和处理网络，最后探索了修改神经过滤器和改变世界观的方法。
