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fizzburger t1_ivimpd5 wrote

cognitive science - are we doing it right?

has anyone ever looked into how cognitive science is being approached? are we sure we even have the right/complete perspective to come to conclusions? are we sure the people studying it and influencing future tech are approaching it form the right end?

Observation/conclusion are key words here because really cognition is ultimately being used to derive these, so could it be that these experiments are biased/flawed to begin with?

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ephemerios t1_ivu92th wrote

Not cognitive science per se (but any critique of neuroscience will have ramifications for cognitive science too), but Bennett's and Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience is a rather scathing review of the conceptual foundation of neuroscience.

PMS Hacker (one of the premier contemporary Wittgensteinians) isn't much of a fan of contemporary neuroscience in general, see for example here.

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fizzburger t1_ivwd4jw wrote

it would have made a lot more sense if the person(person and not mind after reading that article lol) wasn’t just so heavily conditioned. we’re too late to the game perhaps

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