What Learning to Scream Taught Me About AI And Metacognition
Our brains don’t come with learn-o-meters, and we’re bad at seeking out the best ways to learn
Cognitive Wonderland
Science, philosophy, and science fiction geekiness, with a special interest in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Publishes weekly on Thursdays.
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September Book Club: The Only Cure by Mark Solms
The results of the poll are in: for September, we’ll be reading The Only Cure by Mark Solms
Speed-Reading Isn’t Real
The limits of reading and learning
September Book Club Poll
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Free Will Isn't An Illusion, But The Feeling Of It Is (Sometimes)
We are authors of our actions, but our authorship is something we infer, and inferences can be wrong
Everything is Predictable
A review of Tom Chivers’ book about Bayesianism
The Shape of Conscious Experience
Can you describe the redness of red?
The Wisdom of Foxes
The bias-variance trade-off and the value of pluralism in thinking
August Book Club: The Mind Is Flat
The poll results are in: we’re reading The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater as our August book!
Essays In Support of the Null Hypothesis
Failed essays on snobbery, bad neuroscience explanations, and the ontological status of stuff
August Book Club Poll
It’s time to select our next book!
A Cold Dead Universe Full Of Wonder And Meaning
Mechanistic thinking doesn't drain the world of meaning; it can imbue it with wonder
Are Emotions Constructed?
A review of How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett