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The essay puts the similarities between cognition and cooking well, in an entertaining and convincing way: "Although there was a great deal of repetition in the
by mbaytas 9y ago
The essay puts the similarities between cognition and cooking well, in an entertaining and convincing way: "Although there was a great deal of repetition in the daily menus within each household, she told her colleagues, the variety from house to house was dizzying."
However, knowing a few cognitive scientists, I believe they are much better aware of the limitations of their discipline than credited by the author.
- scribu 9y agoIt seems to me that the author’s main criticism isn’t that the people practicing cognitive science are unaware of the limitations, but that they pretend the limitations don’t exist when making policy recommendations: > Science genuinely relevant to food had yet to be invented. So domestic scientists applied irrelevant science, and prescribed scientific-seeming rituals to be adhered to when cooking.