The current pandemic has interrupted life as we know it. People – individuals and nations – have reacted differently to the shock. We have all had to try to make sense of the situation as restrictions were brought in to govern and modify our daily routines – restrictions which often required us to make difficult […]
Johns Hopkins University researchers who study the mind have used methods from cognitive science to test a long-standing philosophical question: Can people see the world objectively? Their answer, as published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is a flat no. With a novel series of experiments using sophisticated computer graphics and laser-cut “coins,” the […]
One might say I have plenty of time to read now. The problem is, that everything I read seems to be so useless. Utterly useless. I don’t know why. There seems to be a pre-corona- and post corona-time. Especially when I read stuff on Critical Theory, political analysis, economics, climate change and so on. Everything has […]
What is the mind? For thousands of years, philosophers, religious figures and scientists have tried to answer this question, but so far, the nature of the mind has eluded understanding. In the field of cognitive science, one idea that gained traction in the mid-20th century is the computational theory of mind, which posits that the […]
