Sublime

We extend beyond our limits, not by revving our brains like a machine or bulking them up like a muscle—but by strewing our world with rich materials, and by weaving them into our thoughts. —Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Extended Mind

Darwin’s “strange inversion of reasoning” and Turing’s equally revolutionary inversion were aspects of a single discovery: competence without comprehension. Comprehension, far from being a Godlike talent from which all design must flow, is an emergent effect of systems of uncomprehending competence: natural selection on the one hand, and mindless c

If neuromodulators can release the activity of neurons in a circuit from the strict constraints of their architecture, then structure is not destiny.

Traditionally, cognitive psychologists have made a distinction among different areas of study: memory, attention, categorization, language acquisition and use, decision-making, and one or two other topics.

He concludes that there is a common function, a common algorithm, that is performed by all the cortical regions.

It is mainly a matter of having an extensive latticework of mental models or theories in our heads that enable us to identify and describe the main ideas quickly

o principal modo de aquisição de conhecimento especializado “não é alguma capacidade prévia e fixa, e sim a dedicação com objetivo”.

but from the study of logic and mathematics. It’s a very weird framework that doesn’t come out of empiricism, but of a certain kind of armchair philosophizing that turned out to be very useful. So the minimality expectations can be dropped. You could have a very, very cumbersome computational system that produces the correct output. So that’s unlik