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January 28, 2025

What beliefs do for us. Aaron C.T. Smith

In his book, Cognitive Mechanisms of Belief Change, Aaron CT Smith, a cognitive scientist from Melbourne, Australia, provides a brilliant analogy to explain what beliefs do for us. Flock Theory, “In my estimation…beliefs follow the same kinds of rules governing flocks of birds…First, successful beliefs fit the rule of separation. Like birds in the flock, Continue reading

Philosophy, Political Rhetoric, Social and Political Commentary

Aaron CT Smith, aqusition, belief, cognitive science, doxa, doxastic, epistemology, flock theory, instrumental, Philosophy, social, theory
January 8, 2025

Thoughtlets LVII. Thomas Hobbes & Antonio Damasio

Two barebones comparisons of quotes from Chapter II of Antonio Damasio’s Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain and Part I: Chapter 13 of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Note: On Damasio’s view emotion and feeling are separate entities, although emotion both underpins and is intricately related to feeling. Emotions are “collections of reflex responses, Continue reading

Philosophy, Social and Political Commentary, Thoughtlets

cognitive science, conservation, damasio, delectation, emotion, Hobbes, Law, morality, neuroscience, passions, Philosophy, rhetoric, war, well-being