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Howard Gardner in his famous Frames of Mind, the Theory of Multiple Intelligences (1983) identifies seven main modes of learning as (1) linguistic, (2) logical-mathematical, (3) bodily kinesthetic, (4) spatial-visual, (5) musical, (6) interpersonal, and (7) intrapersonal.
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
A quote by Michael Levin
Too many artists, scientists, and writers talk about their creative process as a blackbox—an ephemeral spark that’s difficult to explain and impossible to predict. But it’s not. Boden is one of the most influential cognitive scientists to think about creativity through a computational lens. Her work is rooted in the... See more
Rhea Purohit • A Science-based Guide to Thinking Creatively—With LLMs
Piaget, J. (2001) The Psychology of Intelligence. London: Routledge.
Bill Lucas • New Kinds of Smart
To them, the brain and intelligence was all about language.
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
General (non-narrow) intelligence of the sort we all display daily is not an algorithm running in our heads, but calls on the entire cultural, historical, and social context within which we think and act in the world.
Erik Larson • The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
A fine example of the non-transfer of skill exists in chess playing. It’s one of the most studied skills by psychologists, because its need for sequencing ideas, using memory, and developing projection in thinking ought to fire up the neurons like nothing else: top chess players should be top-notch problem solvers, with all the practice they get.
... See moreGary Thomas • Education: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
specialists in linguistics maintain that although grammars differ from one another, their basic forms – which Noam Chomsky calls their deep structures – are universal (i.e. at the deepest neuropsychic level, there exists a universal [or ‘archetypal’] grammar on which all individual grammars are based); an entirely new discipline, sociobiology, has
... See moreAnthony Stevens • Jung
Since humans are already universal explainers and constructors, they can already transcend their parochial origins, so there can be no such thing as a superhuman mind as such. There can only be further automation, allowing the existing kind of human thinking to be carried out faster, and with more working memory, and delegating ‘perspiration’
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