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Meaning is in the eye of the beholder. We can comprehend only what we are prepared to comprehend

Would IT have happened had Greenspan studied SGCS? Allan Greenspan is the former director of the Federal Reserve; “IT” is the giant financial boondoggle that almost sent the globe into another Great Depression. Greenspan admitted that the “model” he was trusting was mistaken. The model in...

My dear mother had many considered opinions and did not go easily into this good night; perhaps that is why I write so much.

My dear mother whispered into my ear with her dying breath "Son never argue with the hand holding the mic".

SGCS (Second Generation Cognitive Science), over the last four decades, has advanced theories that are directed at answering the question “What is cognition?” SGCS brings together many academic disciplines such as psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and philosophy to answer this very...

These are complex and revolutionary concepts that require a great deal of study and thought. Damasio utilizes the lesion method for studying and developing hypothesis regarding the nature of human consciousness. This method consists in studying the effect on the brain’s dysfunctions...

Human Cognition is an Embodied Activity We have all grown up to consider thought to be primarily a matter of language and propositions. We have not generally been taught this notion explicitly but have acquired it through social osmosis (picked it up without conscious effort because it is a...

What is normal is that which others agree to, of course many groups are affected by group psychology or ideology. Only with the help of CT (Critical Thinking) can we be able to develop the judgment to separate the wheat from the chaff. There are many ways of judging but it is imperative that...

I do not think that there is any kind of absolute realit. The best that we can do is to comprehend how human cognition works an thereby gain a better comprhesion of what we consider to be reality.

You are correct they have many books to heir credit.

No I am not familiar with Bayesian theory.

Myth--traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain practice, belief, or natural phenomenon What all humans share is our cognitive structuring of our experiences and all of our thinking structures. Anything that we...

Objectivity is Our Shared Subjectivity Fingerprint and now DNA analysis are what I would call the epitome of objective truth. I say this because these two human characteristics are defining evidence upon which we judge a person guilty and thereby subject to the death penalty. Fingerprints...

What does the Cheetah and the human have in common? Quickie from Wiki: “The cheetah is a vulnerable species. Out of all the big cats, it is the least able to adapt to new environments. It has always proved difficult to breed in captivity, although recently a few zoos have managed to succeed...

Industrial Revolution: The Tipping point? We live in two very different worlds; a world of technical and technological order and clarity, and a world of personal and social disorder and confusion. We are increasingly able to solve problems in one domain and increasingly endangered by our...

Does peer group networking, facilitated by hand-held gadgets, enhance the probability for the following kind of group behavior? The following quotes come from the Washington Post article: Kids Gone Wild, Parents Gone Missing by By Richard Cohen Tuesday, April 6, “It is either...

Hi-Tech Society: Race to the Bottom? Will our hi-tech hand-held gadgets lead us to becoming a less sophisticated society? It appears to me that such gadgets seem to dramatically increase the interaction within the adolescent peer group. I suspect that this interaction tends to create a...

A person can walk the corridors of any big city hospital and observe the effectiveness of human rationality in action. One can also visit the UN building in NYC or read the morning papers and observe just how ineffective, frustrating and disappointing human rationality can be. Why does human...

Concepts We Live By Most of us know “metaphor” only as an aspect of language that allows us to comprehend one concept in terms of another concept that is known to us. We think of metaphor as a matter of words only; not as a matter of thought and action. SGCS (Second Generation Cognitive...

It depends upon what concepts we attach to the matter. If we attach the concepts of ARGUMNET IS COMBAT our discussion becomes a verbal altercation if we attch the concept that the discussion has become ARGUMENT IS A JOURNEY then we will look at discussion as an attempt to reasonto together to...