Today, the totally unqualified Lauren Kahn will be interviewing the equally unqualified Lauren Kahn about consciousness and the debate surrounding it. Consciousness is one of the most heavily debated areas in cognitive science and philosophy. Why is consciousness a problem? We haven’t found a way to ask the right questions. To ask “What is consciousness?” [...]
Archive for the ‘cognitive science’ Category
conscious thoughts of consciousness
October 29, 2010
cognitive scientists: the polyamorists of academia
November 11, 2009
It’s hard to understand how anyone could really be passionate about cognitive science. Think about it. You have like, seven or eight related fields, any of which is alone enough to consume an entire lifetime of work. How could anyone possibly be passionate about all of them at once?! I’m not. I’m not particularly passionate [...]
science lovin’
November 5, 2009
I always hated reading. Then I discovered scientific journals. Just imagine this: You have to find an article – just one article – for a class. You’re searching the online archives of its journal, and you can’t help but see all the other titles of the articles in that issue. Before you know it, there [...]
