Posts Tagged ‘cognition’

Golden Books 2: Mindplayers

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

A while back I wrote something about Steven Brust’s The Sun, The Moon, and The Stars–an entry discussing how it was one of those books that I read at the exactly correct time, and literally had the way I see the world changed (and to some extent shaped) by the experience of reading it. That [...]

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Language and the Shaping Of Thought

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

While I was doing my undergraduate studies, in addition to my Engineering degree, and my minor in Philosophy, I also pursed a number of “options”, notably including an option in Cognitive Studies. Both the mechanics of thinking and the philosophy of cognition and identity were (and remain) of great interest to me.1 One of the [...]

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