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Which ones aren't BS?
by The_rationalist 7y ago
Which ones aren't BS?
- JoeSmithson 7y agoI'm not an expert at all. I read the book How Can The Human Mind Occur In The Physical Universe? a few years ago and was basically left with the impression that actually cognitive science is way more advanced than I had realised. I was very struck with the amount of definite results and falsifiable experiments (i.e. "actual science"). I think it's one of those things like global poverty where if you are 30 or older, what you learnt at school, and your whole rule of thumb intuition, is totally wrong. https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/mobile/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195324259.001.0001/acprof-9780195324259 https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/mobile/view/10.1093/acprof...
- abrax3141 7y agoNone of them as BS, or, put more positively, none of these are complete, but each offers different complexly interlocking partial models, at different levels of description. This is how we understand any complex system. Indeed, this is how we understand anything. Indeed, this is what it means to “understand”, that is, to use models to reason about something. Each of these, and all brain and cognitive science, provides different complexly inTeracting models that we use to reason about the system.