{"id":1429,"date":"2023-10-07T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2023-10-30T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T03:59:06","slug":"cognitive-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2023\/10\/07\/cognitive-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive science<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_science\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_science<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even if the technology to map out every neuron in the brain in real-time were available and it were known when each neuron fired it would still be impossible to know how a particular firing of neurons translates into the observed behavior<\/p>\n<p>There is some debate in the field as to whether the mind is best viewed as a huge array of small but individually feeble elements (i.e. neurons), or as a collection of higher-level structures such as symbols, schemes, plans, and rules. The former view uses <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Connectionism\">connectionism<\/a> to study the mind, whereas the latter emphasizes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symbolic_artificial_intelligence\">symbolic artificial intelligence<\/a>. One way to view the issue is whether it is possible to accurately simulate a human brain on a computer without accurately simulating the neurons that make up the human brain.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Research methods borrowed directly from <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuroscience\">neuroscience<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> and <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuropsychology\">neuropsychology<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> can also help us to understand aspects of intelligence. These methods allow us to understand how intelligent behavior is implemented in a physical system.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Single-unit_recording\">Single-unit recording<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transcranial_direct_current_stimulation\">Direct brain stimulation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Animal_models\">Animal models<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Postmortem_studies\">Postmortem studies<\/a> <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_intelligence\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memory\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memory<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_revolution\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_revolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Steven Pinker claims that the cognitive revolution bridged the gap between the physical world and the world of ideas, concepts, meanings and intentions. It unified the two worlds with a theory that mental life can be explained in terms of information, computation and feedback.[8i<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive science is actually a science of only one part of the mind, the part that has to do with thinking, reasoning, and intellect. It leaves emotions out. &#8220;And minds without emotions are not really minds at all\u2026&#8221;[31]<\/p>\n<p>The authors argue that connectionist models were closer to symbolic models than to neurobiology.[27]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive science https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_science\u00a0 Even if the technology to map out every neuron in the brain in real-time were available and it were known when each neuron fired it would still be impossible to know how a particular firing of neurons translates into the observed behavior There is some debate in the field as to whether &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2023\/10\/07\/cognitive-science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cognitive Science&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}