cognitive science
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Mark Tracy Imagine living in a world where patterns repeat in a meaningful sense—but never in exactly the same way. The Sun rises every day.The Moon goes through phases.The seasons return each year. But if you look closely, these cycles do not line up perfectly. The lunar month does not divide evenly into the year.…
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I like to publish my most important ongoing works to this blog so that they may be read in the event of my unexpected death. The foregoing text is one example. In it, I discuss the crucial topics of abstraction and analogy, two mechanisms of mentation and communication so pervasive and critical that it can…
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Here’s a quick post demystifying the process by which we’re scientifically bootstrapping our way out of our minds’ and brains’ black boxes into better and better self-knowledge. 1. We identify types of human cognition that are of interest to us. For example, analogical reasoning. Once you’ve learned about it, it’s shocking how analogy underlies almost…
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One thing we can know is that we are questioning As we question the nature of reality, we have very little that is unassailable upon which to build answers. One thing that we can be sure of, though, is our own questioning. What, if anything, can the fact of our questioning itself tell us about…
The Trinitarian Mystery 