This week, I found myself reading articles from the newest issue of the Trends in Cognitive Science journal, which was published for March 2018. The main theme of the issue focuses on the modeling of the predictive social mind and creating a multilayered framework for social prediction, as many cognitive scientists believe that “to successfully […]
Using Social Cognition in Artificial Intelligence – by Max Garcia Read Post »
Earlier this week, I was talking with someone about the mind and cognition. I started to pay close attention to the notion that many people have when they refer to the mind as a “computer”. While it is true that the mind performs computation in most of its cognitive capabilities, I believe that referring to
More than a Computer – by Max Garcia Read Post »
Happiness, power, and goodness have two things in common. The first one is the fact that they are abstract concepts. The second one is the notion that the three words can be mapped to the conceptual metaphor of “Up” (Lakoff, 2014). This in turn can be further expanded into the following ideas:
Embodied Cognition Arising from Metaphors – by Max Garcia Read Post »
