Antiseptic,

Good luck with the uni. I am sure you will do well with purpose and life experience.

Thanks Chris, it will be great fun trying, anyway.

Antiseptic>> but it can only work with premises that are correct or it reduces to rationalism and solipsism.
but it's not going to yield solutions that are reliably useful and it can lead to seriously non-linear outcomes.<<

Indy, non linear outcomes and primate behavioral anomalies run hand in hand as you know.
Because of that truism psychology is the most fascinating science for me. Unlike physics and other unequivocal subjects the way we administer our “free will” is the primary factor to outcomes in psychological prognostications.

Plato was the first to formally declare that our “soul” is a trinity, containing an impulsive/instinctive driver, an emotional driver and an intellectual driver and they all resided in different parts of the body rather than our brain. He further tendered that the proportional mix of these drivers determined an individual’s personality.

Indy it’s a bloody great subject, just wait till you get to intrigueing stuff such as the “inoculation effect” and “fugue states ”.....I wish I was doing the syllabus again. If you need some input during your course, start a thread, there must be other psyche majors on OLO ready to help out.

Antiseptic, I referred to you as Indy rather than Anti......psychological slip.

Lexi>> I was a "mature-age" student and I remember my
Graduation to this day... little voice yelled
out from the balcony - "That's MY Mum!" <<

Probably the most pertinent thought evoked from the floor or the dais.

Lexi my campus belle, I was a secondary to tertiary student and a mature age student but I didn’t get to either of the graduations. The first graduation found me working for BHP in the back blocks of WA. The second found me working in NZ.

In saying that, I have been to numerous graduations over the past thirty years; Quentin Bryce was the chief dignitary at the last I attended just before Xmas. To see the kids full of hope and ambition more than compensates for having to digest the carefully couched rhetoric of some academics and their guests.

A positive aspect I noted over the years is the acknowledgement to our first Aussies at the beginning of proceedings these days.

Dear SOG,

I'm sorry you missed out on your Graduation.
I wanted my family there to share mine with me.
Especially the kids. It was a memorable moment
on the day. But then I've got to say - so was the
entire experience of studying. I learned so much
from it - perhaps because it was the right time for
me, being a mature-age student and wanting to do it,
and not being pressured by parents as I had been
earlier. I got a lot out of it. And I know that
Anti - will do really well. It makes a difference
when its something you really want to do.