🧠 Decoded circuits reveal how brain cell networks stabilize memory formation

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-decoded-circuits-reveal-brain-cell.html

#brain #biology #neuroscience #neurons #memory #psychology #cogniton

Any attempt to conceive of reality purely through rationality ultimately collapses into irrationality. To do so ignores how much of human cognition and emotion, our needs and desires, our daily movements and behaviours, is based on intuition and not calculation, the unconscious as much as the conscious, on thinking fast as much—in fact far more—than thinking slow. To see the human as a purely rational agent, in other words, disregards the body.

#embodiment #phenomenology #philosophy #cogniton

A new link as the previous one was broken. #perception #cogniton #emotion

The Entangled Brain
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544603/the-entangled-brain/

Please help me organize my thoughts about this issue in #philosophy of #cogniton.

I'm all for the reciprocal coupling of @philosophy and science, but sometimes it seems unbalanced.

Whenever I read "classics" (Haugeland, Dennett, Cummins, Clark...), I see a concern for the big picture that I miss in most contemporary work, usually focused on very specific issues. But I think the most fundamental and philosophically interesting questions regard the big picture.

Is it relatable to anybody?

Trying to pin down what the word "intelligence" means is becoming to look more and more like a fool's errand. But at least I think we are getting closer to figuring out how to tackle this slippery issue. We can't deal with all the approaches, but in Chapter 3 I think we can handle four of them.

#BerghahnExplanations #cogniton #anthropology

Writing a popular book. Do these work as key summaries?

𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗺: Once an association is established between a stimulus and a response, there is no need to think.
𝗕𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: We can’t be as rational as we may want to believe we are. What we know about something is always limited.
𝗗𝘂𝗮𝗹-𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆: We are usually just running on autopilot, but at times we have to pay real attention to what is happening around us despite how much effort that takes.
#cogniton #psychology