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cognitive science

  1. Minoosh

    What specifically about math scares so many people?

    Having seen people who say they are hopeless at math I want to dig deeper and find out when their fear was triggered and what might be done about it. I'm interested if anyone has had to deal with their own issue, or has had a child or loved one who is struggling. One girl told me "I was good at...
  2. barehl

    The Foundations of Cognitive Theory

    The most basic cognitive construct that comes to mind is the Chinese Room. This idea was created to argue against Strong AI and it was mentioned by Dennett. I think we can get some more utility out of it. The basic notion was that you have a room where pieces of paper with questions are fed...
  3. Reivax

    Embodied and Embedded Cognition

    Some of you might be familiar with the connectionist approach to cognition which utilizes abstract and idealised artificial neural networks (ANNs) to replicate the underlying processes in the brain that give rise to intelligent behavior. This approach seems to solve many problems associated with...
  4. UndercoverElephant

    Philosophical conceptions of the self and cognitive science

    The following is an article by Shaun Gallagher describing the various ways cognitive science has tried to get to grips with "the self". http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~gallaghr/tics2000.html The following is my provisional response to the article:

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