Tag: cognitive-science
Why Large Language Models Will Not Understand Human Language
Even with the incredible performance of LLMs and the tsunami of research into these models, LLMs will not be able to understand human language.
How Imagining Can Set Us Free
Imagining gives us our freedom. Or so I argue in this paper, which aims to describe the neural basis of imagination and its role in free will perceptions. First, I review imagination on all three of Marr’s levels of analysis: its computational function, its algorithmic structure, and its neural implementation (Marr, 1982). Then, I argue…
Why We Need Emotion to Interpret the World
An explanation of Heidegger’s understanding of moods and attunement, and some methodological critiques of his approach – the existential analytic. How is his phenomenology relevant for the modern science of emotion?
The Sparks of Generative Creativity in Mental Disorders
how some disorders magnify the creative process and what we can learn from them
The Psychological Representation of Imagination
What determines the things we can imagine? How does imagination affect the possibilities we consider?