Cognitive-science Quotes

In most sciences, there are few findings more prized than a counterintuitive result. It shows someth...

Characteristics of System 1: • generates impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by S...

Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we j...

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of m...

The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaph...

In philosophy, metaphorical pluralism is the norm. Our most important abstract philosophical concept...

...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual...

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability t...

[O]ur percept is an elaborate computer model in the brain, constructed on the basis of information c...

[T]he form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer ...

Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires a...

Once we have isolated the computational and neurological correlates of access-consciousness, there i...