Sublime

brains are already organized and knowledgeable.

At its core, intelligence can be viewed as a process that converts unstructured information into useful and actionable knowledge.

information processing is thought to proceed through a series of stages: (1) exposure and attention; (2) comprehension; (3) encoding, interpretation, and elaboration; (4) organization and storage in memory; and (5) retrieval (Vonnahme 2019).

This analytical, active part of our mind in the prefrontal cortex is physiologically expensive if it is not supported by the more primal regions of the brain that we associate with the unconscious mind. The function of the unconscious regions of the brain is known in cognitive science as “hot cognition” or “System 1.” Hot cognition is the function

Creating a useful, accurate picture of something complex and abstract is very difficult. And there is nothing more complex and abstract than the human mind.

realized that there were two radically different ways of looking at the instruction we were receiving, and that the two approaches were mutually incompatible. The first approach consists of treating mathematics as knowledge. Mathematical statements are information that you have to ingest and be able to recall. You have to learn the definitions, lea

Stephen Palmer, a professor of psychology at the University of California who directs the Visual Perception and Aesthetics Lab,

brain organization provides us with both a powerful start-up kit and an equally powerful learning machine.