These are my notes on an interview with James Clear: Designing Your Environment to Shape Your Behavior Improving habits basically means overcoming your orientation toward immediate gratification to instead improve delayed returns. To create habits that stick, you need to: Make it obvious This is the cue/trigger to remind you to do the thing Design … Continue reading Building Better Habits
Category: Cognitive Science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary study of perception, thought, emotion, and their interactions; it is the study of mind.
On the Acquisition of Semantic Categories
This paper, written for my Language and the Mind course, is a summary of the current state of knowledge regarding the acquisition of semantic categories--that is, what we know about how you learn the meaning of words. For a PDF version, click here. Enjoy! The difficulty entailed by the acquisition of semantic categories is nowhere … Continue reading On the Acquisition of Semantic Categories
Emergence and the Mind
This is my research paper for my Intro to Interdisciplinary Studies program. This is rather unique as a scholarly work (and intentionally due to the aims of the course): the first half is a sort of historical overview of both the mind-brain dilemma and emergence theory, while the second half deals with the support for … Continue reading Emergence and the Mind
Free Will in the Age of Materialism
This is my research paper written for my Consciousness course. For a PDF version instead, click here. Enjoy! In a monist, materialist world, how is it that the mind can act on the body? Virtually no one today believes that the mind is of a separate substance from the body, immaterial and ethereal; most believe … Continue reading Free Will in the Age of Materialism
