Questions tagged [cognitive-psychology]
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Instant Gratification and Self-Sabotage [closed]
I notice that I often engage in activities that provide instant gratification and not do the work I am supposed to do. (I need to learn to delay gratification)
I also fall prey to obsessive ...
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What is the name of this phenomenon?
If you don't know anything about trees and plants, all you see in the forest is a bunch of trees. But if you know the names and appearances of different plants, you might see oaks, elms, pines etc. ...
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What can be the cause for this mess I'm or the road to insanity I am on? Or is it that I am insane or with an unsound mind? [closed]
Why do I keep questioning myself; my mind and brain keep unfolding questions regarding my behaviour, constantly questioning my behaviour and intentions. Indefinitely doubt every bit and the part about ...
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Can morals be viewed an evolving psycho-technological driven by dominant strategies?
So I might be mixing concepts here. But here goes:
In economics we have dominant strategies:
In biology, the speed at which a pure strategy spreads in the
population is limited by its current ...
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Is there a hierarchy to image schemas?
Image schemas are primitive concepts that are studied in diverse fields such as linguistics, psychology, cognitive linguistics, neuroscience.
The influences of image schemas is not only seen in ...
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What does Hume's Fork teach us about pattern recognition?
I could be wrong but I think that pattern recognition means mastering mental schema to predict the future.
Hume's fork is a brand new concept that I learned about and offers an interesting perspective ...
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What do philosophers mean when they say language has a psychological reality?
I came across this in trying to understand 'Ignorance of Language' by Michael Devitt, and the back and forth he has had around this topic with other philosophers. Any books (papers?) I can look at to ...
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Allais' paradox
Theories of practical rationality have usually taken it for granted that given a choice, people will prefer a maximum of expected utility. The Allais' paradox states that there are many situations in ...
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How is knowledge possible?
I haven't studied Philosophy and I get this is a fundamental question one cannot answer in one line.
But I want to phrase it in this particular way: even in a finite possibilities-predetermined (few) ...
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Researchers describe emotions as either “positive” or “negative”. But can emotions be “right” or “wrong”?
Could it be regarded as either right or wrong from being tied to either positive or negative connotations?
See: On “Positive” and “Negative” Emotions by Robert C. Solomon and Lori D. Stone
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Have cognitive scientists dealt with Kant’s idea of a priori knowledge using their tools?
Since Kant’s concept of a priori knowledge is about how humans perceive and construct the world in their head, that sounds very directly related to cognitive science and psychology. Have scientists ...
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Is there any formal studies of why philosophers think a certain way or focus on certain topics?
In other words, I looking for a formal study of philosophers and their thinking as the object to be studied.
Parts of what philosophers think about is influenced by history, of course. It is no ...
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How seriously is virtue ethics under attack by moral psychology?
K.A. Appiah, in his "Experiments in Ethics" (2008), gives a rather drastic picture of the attack virtue ethics finds itself under by moral psychology.
In a nutshell, (a vast amount of) ...
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When does memorization become knowledge?
I am researching aspects of human knowledge acquisition and how it relates to early phases of learning and memorization. Basically, is there research and terminology for the distinction between ...
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The Farmer narration by Alan Watts
Is anyone aware of the story of a Chinese farmer (A Taoist parable) who keeps saying "maybe" to every event (Good or bad) that happens to him because we don't know the consequences of those events in ...
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Intellectual History of Idea in A Geneaology of Morals Essay One
In Nietzsche's first essay in A Geneaology of Morals, he suggests that use of language in which subjects and verbs are distinguished may influence or at least correspond to conceptual distinctions in ...
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For someone who studies Daoism, how would they make another Daoist see that they are in fact following the Dao?
For a quick summary of the Dao, here is an excerpt of what it is in the book Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
The culmination of knowledge is ...
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Can we measure "braverity" objectively?
By saying "bravery/courage", we implicitly mean a hard task that we wouldn't do it in daily life, and we have to sacrifice something to get it - we are scared. It is, after all, just a cost-benefit ...
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Does the ineffability of the Dao contradict wuwei?
Wuwei, as I understand it, means the following, depending on the context:
You do something because you are born for it and do it without wondering why you need to do it (e.g. trees produce oxygen ...
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Does following logic necessarily require one to conclude that they are objective and have no bias?
In social psychology, naïve realism is the human tendency to believe that we see the world around us objectively, and that people who disagree with us must be uninformed, irrational, or biased. It is ...
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Can anyone translate this paragraph from Joseph Glanvill's "The Vanity of Dogmatizing" into simple English?
Can anybody translate this paragraph into simple English?
It is a paragraph from Joseph Glanvill's The Vanity of Dogmatizing, Chapter 5, page 26-7.
But how is it, and by what art, doth the soul ...
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Is there any study about how half-baked philosophies encourage maladaptive thoughts? [closed]
There are many schools of philosophy that advocate refuting perceived phenomena, for example:
Taoism: the bad equals the good, why be afraid or avoid the bad ones?
Science: before proving it ...
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What is the name for half-baked understanding of philosophies?
I think many people who subscribe to Taoism pushing the idea to extremes, like thinking that only feeling is correct (in the name of the Tao cannot be spoken), or researching is useless (in the name ...
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If nature is inherently imprecise, how is it so easy for us to conceptualize mathematical certainties?
In modeling any real physical system, we are required to employ inductive reasoning. We can never be completely certain about the state or properties of any system or of any future observation we will ...
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Is there a theory that trying to solve intuition and fear at the same time?
I'm looking for a school of thought or theory that solves these problems, preferably at once:
The way to make a profound, advanced knowledge more straightforward and imaginative, without having to ...
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What is the name of the phenomenon that a thing must be named in order to understand it?
The concept is popular in the media and philosophy that to understand a thing, one should have a name for it. In Star War it is widely known with "Named must your fear be before banish it you can&...
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Contradictions with Physical Needs within Plato's Tripartite Theory of the Soul? (Reason Rules?)
Aparently, Plato said
reason should rule over emotions and appetites
When googling the phrase, something about Plato's Tripartite Theory of the Soul comes up.
In Republic [Book IX], Plato ...
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