COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Analytic Geometry, Homunculus Argument, Lodestone
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Simplicity turns into the notion of elegance. Numbers are highly trustworthy and used by scientists. Very plausible =profound theoretical construct, farfetchedness occurs if there is too much elegant. Cognitive science is to learn how to come up with such constructs, The scientific revolution is radically incomplete not quantitatively, there is knowledge we lack but more qualitative. Our cognition that generates science does not follow under the purge of science, science can"t account for the very cognition that produces it and therefore incomplete. We may undertake to fix that by offering a naturalistic account of cognition. Cognitive science is not just synoptic integration by creating theoretical constructs but it tries to explain the mind and complete the scientific revolution. 3 scientific revolutions that bear over cognition, naturalistic imparity- to render a synoptic integration that affords a naturalistic observation of cognition: intellectually heritage of the greeks and the moral heritage of the. Hebrews , radical changes in greece in 500 bc.
