While searching the library for reference materials related to a book study — looking through cognitive science and cognitive psychology books — I happened to come across a book called Discognition. Looking at the title, I wondered what it was. In an era like ours, not cognition but "dis-cognition"? It gave off a kind of pseudo-scientific(?) / autobiographical(?) / novelistic(?) feeling, but driven by some unaccountable curiosity I opened the book and was leafing quickly through the pages, when suddenly I came upon this passage.
Knowing how is different from knowing that.
Ha — !!!
I'm glad that today, once more, I was able to spot one of my own habits of judgment.
Cognitive science was just one theory among many. Though it isn't the mainstream — I came to know that there are many other theories yet to receive attention. The word mainstream literally means a stream — a current of water. It isn't a fixed substance. It is bound to be heavily influenced by the era and society. In a rapidly changing time like the present, it was wonderful to be able to encounter such precious content.
For now, let me organize what is mentioned in the introduction.
In fact, intuition and emotion are part of our lives and influence many things — learning, communication with others, decision-making, and so on.
Reference: mainstream cognitive science — Daniel Dennett (philosophy, science): Wikipedia, Namuwiki
(Still being written..)
As I kept reading, I couldn't shake the feeling that cognitive science seems to be a theory that fits artificial intelligence better than it fits humans.
