Tag Archives: cognitive science

Cognitive Recycling

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Giorgio Bertini

Theories in cognitive science, and especially cognitive neuroscience, often claim that parts of cognitive systems are reused for different cognitive functions. Philosophical analysis of this concept, however, is rare. Here, I first provide a set of criteria for an analysis … Continue reading →

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What happened to Cognitive Science?

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

More than a half-century ago, the ‘cognitive revolution’, with the influential tenet ‘cognition is computation’, launched the investigation of the mind through a multidisciplinary endeavour called cognitive science. Despite significant diversity of views regarding its definition and intended scope, this … Continue reading →

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The Case Against Reality

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman explains why human perceptions of an independent reality are all illusions. The professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses. As we go about our daily … Continue reading →

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How to Build a Brain

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

In this book, Chris Eliasmith presents a new approach to understanding the neural implementation of cognition in a way that is centrally driven by biological considerations. He calls the general architecture that results from the application of this approach the … Continue reading →

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How Children perceive Fractals – Hierarchical self-similarity and Cognitive development

Posted on February 16, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

The ability to understand and generate hierarchical structures is a crucial component of human cognition, available in language, music, mathematics and problem solving. Recursion is a particularly useful mechanism for generating complex hierarchies by means of self-embedding rules. In the … Continue reading →

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Constructing Autopoiesis

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

This essay attempts to explain through an analysis of the limitations of the Lakoff, Johnson and Turner school of cognition and meaning-making, why exactly Arakawa and Gins’ analogical relations with the cognitive science of Maturana and Varela and the philosophy … Continue reading →

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On the Collective Nature of Human Intelligence

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

A fundamental assumption of cognitive science is that the individual is the correct unit of analysis for understanding human intelligence. I present evidence that this assumption may have limited utility, that the social networks containing the individuals are an important … Continue reading →

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The Wandering Mind: What the Brain does when You’re not looking

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

If we’ve done our job well—and, let’s be honest, if we’re lucky—you’ll read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you won’t. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. That’s … Continue reading →

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Mind and Cognition – A study on the Philosophical Foundations of Cognitive Science

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Cognitive science aims at the study and explanation of human cognitive capacities like perception, memory, reasoning, language use and so on. It is a distinctively multidisciplinary enterprise emerging out of the interaction of various disciplines like Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Psychology, … Continue reading →

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Networks in Cognitive Science

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Networks of interconnected nodes have long played a key role in Cognitive Science, from artificial neural networks to spreading activation models of semantic memory. Recently, however, a new Network Science has been developed, providing insights into the emergence of global, … Continue reading →

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