Philosophers’ Carnival #69
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The Evolutionary Cost of Learning
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.
Computation vs. Information Processing
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, …
Fun Bird Fact
In Perception … Processing of the Müller-Lyer illusion by a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) Irene M Pepperberg, Jennifer Vicinay, Patrick Cavanagh Received 28 November 2006, in revised form 31 May 2007; published online 1 May 2008 Abstract. Alex, a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) who identifies the bigger or smaller of two objects by …
Philosophers’ Carnival #68
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Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions in the Human Brain
It’s the title of a provocative new article in Nature Neuroscience. For those interested in free will and the brain.
Real Time Neurofeedback using fMRI
Here is a 3 min video about it. A little hyped, but pretty cool. (Hat tip to Ritesh Mehta.)