CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Social Capital, Stock Trader, Time Dilation
1 Dec 2018
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Why cognitive science is the most important thing in the world. Technological solution: come up with an alternate, safe energy source. Fund science and engineering to do it. Get more people to care so our representatives will make it happen. Social solution: convince people to use much less oil. The reason we can"t solve all the problems in the world is ultimately, because we don"t know how to do it. Figuring out how to do it requires thinking and problem solving. Human modelling side of cognitive science studies how people actually solve problems, and all of the other cognitive functions it takes to do it. Ai engineering side of cognitive science tries to make programs that can solve problems for us, often better than us. Perhaps cognitive science can help us solve all of these problems. Even if there is some other problem you think is more important, you can apply cognitive science to the problem solving in that problem.
