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God?s Perfect Circle: Or Is It?
2008-04-26 15:11:00 God is an amoral God (do not confuse this with immoral). God has set the laws of the universe in motion and has allowed it to take the course therein programmed. If people suffer, it is of no consequence to God since it was in his divine “cosmic syntax” to allow these events to occur. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "God’s Perfect Circle: Or Is It?", url: "http://tasthius.com/2008/04/26-/gods-perfect-circle-or-is-it/"- });
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Has part of the answer to The Frame Problem been found?
2008-01-05 20:55:00 As is described in What is the Frame Problem?, the frame problem in cognitive science refers to the problem that cognitive agents necessarily solve each moment: pay attention to what is relevant in a given situation and ignore the rest. While of course we’re not always perfect at this task, not attending to valuable info ...
Attention Steven Pinker: Look out for Creationists
2008-01-03 06:59:00 PZ Myers just posted an interesting little story: If you’ve ever been curious about the intelligent design of language, here’s a new one for you: Edenics. Here you will discover that ALL human words contain forms of the Edenic roots within them. These proto-Semitic or early Biblical Hebrew words were programmed into our common ancestors, Adam and ...
Sam Harris et al on the neurology of belief, disbelief and uncertainty
2008-01-03 03:20:00 In a paper recently published in the Annals of Neurology, Sam Harris, Mark Cohen, and Sameer Sheth measured the brain activity of subjects as they evaluated propositions as being either true or false, or declaring uncertainty. Harris et al found different patterns of brain activation across the three judgments. This isn’t really shocking. As discussed in ...
The Cultivation of Wisdom and Well-Being, Installment 1: Mindfulness and Me
2008-01-02 04:26:00 Welcome to the first post dedicated to wisdom, one of the intended pillars of this blog. This posting is the first of a series of posts addressing posited pillars of wisdom and well-being, including mindfulness and meta-cognition, process orientation, egolessness and openess. Mindfulness and meta-cognition will be the subject of this first installment, with major sub-units being ...
Framing, or Relevance Realization, in child and chimp. Possible root for cr
2008-01-01 21:48:00 Deric Bownd reports on research by Lyons et al. demonstrating that when being taught a new skill, young children are more inclined than chimps to imitate behaviours irrelevant to the task being taught. This suggests that children initially apply relatively inclusive frames in conceiving of novel situations. This could be a generative factor behind creativity, ...
Neurorealism: Impressed by pretty pictures of the brain
2008-01-01 21:14:00 In a recent visit to Deric Bownd’s excellent cognitive science blog, MindBlog, I discovered this interesting finding: people are more impressed by cognitive science findings if these findings include neuroimaging. Should they be?
Genetic factors with implications for free will, personal responsibility, e
2007-12-29 21:50:00 Another Derek Bownd post is reviewed here. Bownd cites Holden’s summary of the work: “Once burned, twice shy” works for most people. But some people are slow to learn from bad experiences. Klein et al. have identified a genetic link to a decreased ability to learn from negative reinforcement (i.e., the removal of an aversive stimulus). ...
Monkeys Go Bumper-to-Bumper with Uni Students in Nonverbal Math
2007-12-29 21:04:00 Derek Bownds reviews a study by Cantlon and Brannon demonstrating similar nonverbal mathematical abilities in humans and nonhuman primates. They propose an evolutionary link in the form of a shared cognitive system for nonverbal arithmetic.
Critical Periods for Cognitive Development: A Study on the Impact of Child
2007-12-29 20:39:00 Derek Bownd reviews an ethically-loaded study by Nelson et al. comparing the cognitive development of abandoned children reared in institutions to abandoned children raised in institutions but then moved to foster care.
A Quick Post On Dealing With Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
2007-12-27 22:45:00 Today I discovered an excellent Cognitive Science blog: Deric Bownd’s MingBlog. Bownd is a Cognitive Psychologist at the esteemed University of Wisconsin, where he has studied visual cognition for 35 years. If you’re interested in Cognitive Science and CogSci & Society, his blog is definitely worth a look. Anyhow, while reading his blog I discovered a ...
Cognitive Science Carnival Today
2007-08-28 00:54:00 Encephelon #30, the cognitive science blog carnival is up at Neurofuture. Some of the best science bloggers on the net offer news and analysis about what's on their (and everyone's) mind.Check it out.The next edition of Encephalon (make submissions here) is scheduled for September 10th, to be hosted by Dr. Deborah Serani.
Cognitive Science of Anti-Evolutionism
2006-12-01 14:40:05 From Trends in Cognitive Science: The current debate over whether to teach Intelligent Design creationism in American public schools provides the rare opportunity to watch the interaction between scientific knowledge and intuitive beliefs play out in courts rather than cortex. Although it is tempting to think the controversy stems only from ignorance about evolution, a closer look reinforces what decades of research in cognitive and social psychology have already taught us: that the relationship between understanding a claim and believing a claim is far from simple. Research in education and psychology confirms that a majority of college students fail to understand evolutionary theory, but also finds no support for a relationship between understanding evolutionary theory and accepting it as true [1,2]. We believe the intuitive appeal of Intelligent Design owes as much to misconceptions about science and morality as it does to misconceptions about evolution. To support this position ...
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