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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Condorcet born?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1752.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1776.

2. What do nerve cells in the brain send signals along?
(a) Neurons.
(b) Synapses.
(c) Neutrons.
(d) Axons.

3. What two fields did Wilson connect in his theory of unified learning?
(a) Evolution and genetics.
(b) Epistemology and religion.
(c) Classification and evolution.
(d) Philosophy and evolution.

4. Where is the seat of consciousness in the brain?
(a) In the mid-brain.
(b) There is no center of consciousness.
(c) In the fore-brain.
(d) In the hind-brain.

5. What does science seek, in Wilson's account?
(a) Objective truth based on hypothesis.
(b) Interesting hypotheses.
(c) Probably hypothesis.
(d) The mind of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the laws of physics transcend, in Wilson's account?

2. What kind of progress does Wilson see in the history of life on earth?

3. What field does Wilson say philosophers and scientists should collaborate in?

4. What does Wilson mean by the Ionian Enchantment'?

5. Einstein recognized what in his discoveries, in Wilson's account?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you describe Wilson's relationship with religion?

2. How does the modern theory of dreams explain something like the presence and significance of snakes in dreams, in Wilson's account?

3. How has postmodernism affected Wilson's consilience?

4. What is reductionism, and what makes it useful for science?

5. Why is consilience especially important in studying the mind?

6. What is the modern understanding of dreams?

7. How do anatomical limitations affect our science, in Wilson's account?

8. Why does Wilson cite Einstein as an example of someone who practiced consilience?

9. How is knowledge accepted as settled, or final?

10. What is the relationship between chaos theory and consilience?

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