Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists

The current trendy way to think about brains is as predictive machines. Bayesian methods, free energy, generative models, and all the other ...

Another day, another study finds that 'visual' cortex is activated by something other than information from the eyes : A research ...

Brains, HUH, yeah, what are they good for? When we say "there are no mental representations", people often hear 'the brain...

One of the bugbears of direct perception is the fact of neural delays. The transmission of signals through the nervous system takes time, ...

I'm slowly working my way through Olaf Sporn's excellent book, Networks of the Mind . The purpose of this book is to introduc...

One of the problems I face as I try to figure out what the brain is up to, if not representing , is that I can't rely on the neuroscie...

I want to continue thinking about the implications of the claim that the brain does not trade in representations. I'm not looking to d...

I'm not that interested in the brain. It's hard to be this way in modern psychology. Cognitive neuroscience is where it's a...