6. The Romantic unconscious Episode six, the romantic, unconscious [00:00:08] 70th, and much of the 18th centuries in Europe, style themselves as the age of reason and era suffused with confidence that human powers or rationality could comprehend the workings of nature in such ways to bend it to our will. Nicola, Copernicus, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, and other great scientists of the era made astonishing advances in our understanding of the physical world. [00:00:29] These pioneers were also an inspiration to others who dreamed of developing a kind of physics of the mind, which would lay bare the inner workings of human mentality in such a way as to render it, not just intelligible, but also capable of being harnessed for the betterment of humanity. We've already noted that live nuts while hugely impressed by the power of reason. [00:00:48] And as a scientist in the same league, as Newton, Boyle, and Copernicus had doubts that at least conscious forms of rationality can te...