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But for our commonsense notions of human agency and morality to hold, it seems that our actions cannot be merely lawful products of our biology, our conditioning, or anything else that might lead others to predict them.

Sam Harris • Free Will

Understand: mechanical intelligence is not a degraded form of thinking, as compared to abstract reasoning.

Robert Greene • Mastery

There is a striking uniformity in the way creative people-artists, writers, mathemati-cians, scientists, and philosophers-speak about the process of production and problem solving. Ghiselin (1952) has collected into one volume a number of essays on the creative pro-cess by a variety of creative workers from Poincare to Picasso. As Ghiselin... See more

Richard E. Nisbett • Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes

Robert Sternberg writes about successful intelligence,9 which he considers to be a composite of academic or analytical intelligence, creative intelligence and practical intelligence. Analytical intelligence refers to the ability to solve

Bill Lucas • New Kinds of Smart

They can combine frames into cognitive networks.

Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT

“A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn’t about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.”
― Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Beyond the argument from equivalence, there’s another argument for group minds. This is the argument from modularity . Modularity is a common hypothesis in cognitive science (and evolutionary psychology), which is essentially that parts of your mind act like mini-minds themselves, and then pass on their results.

Erik Hoel • The egregore passes you by

Margolis proposed that there are two very different kinds of cognitive processes at work when we make judgments and solve problems: “seeing-that” and “reasoning-why.” “Seeing-that” is the pattern matching that brains have been doing for hundreds of millions of years. Even the simplest animals are wired to respond to certain patterns of input (such