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These 19th-century diagrams were one man’s attempt to illustrate human consciousness

Could you represent the stages of human consciousness with a diagram? In the late 19th century, New Zealand psychologist Benjamin Betts tried to apply mathematics to the problem of visualizing human consciousness. What he produced were striking, almost floral designs that he believed represented the shape of out consciousness for a given activity. Maria Popova… Continue reading These 19th-century diagrams were one man’s attempt to illustrate human consciousness