COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Prosopagnosia, Nelson Goodman, Hypnosis
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Cognition: set of processes by which human beings take in, store and transform & then apply information in behaviour. Problematic: because it suggests each contributing subject doesn t communicate with the others cognition must be studied at various levels. Disciplines communicate, but no significant integration of them occurs. Problematic: unstable resulting in: a) loss of interest and return to gn or: too weak to manage and becomes si ex. Metaphor- consider processing, not product: need a difference to make one (ex. bees are hornets, reasonable amount of correlation (ex. arguments are chairs) Integration of various levels of discourse and theory with others. From philosophy to the brain : plausible theoretical constructs, usefulness (integration, kitcher) There should be a high level of profundity: depth of balanced convergence and elegance. Science explains the familiar with the unfamiliar, but this is different than theoretical weirdness. Get various disciplines to converge to explain many different levels.