Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

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An interesting NY Times article on the tradeoff between being better learners and having better instincts.There is also a nice one on ordinary people’s magical thinking.

Since the cognitivist revolution around the 1950s, it’s become commonplace that cognition involves computation/information processing.  The two terms are generally used more or less interchangeably.But it seems to me that “computation” and “information processing” mean two clearly distinct things.  Paradigmatically, computation is the processing of digits according to appropriate rules, …

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It’s the title of a provocative new article in Nature Neuroscience.  For those interested in free will and the brain.

Here is a 3 min video about it.  A little hyped, but pretty cool.  (Hat tip to Ritesh Mehta.)

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