The Cognizer

Extending cognition. A @cog_ist initiative.

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

The Cognizer is here! We are excited to share our new publishing platform with cognitive science enthusiasts. The Cognizer will help make cognitive science more accessible and popularize it by YOUR easy-to-follow essays in English which are at least 1500 words.

[CogIST @cog_ist]

This year, the 10th #ISBCS (International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science) will be held at METU (@METU_ODTU) on June 1, 2024. 🙌

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

@visual_linguist @cogirmak Thank you for the interest! We have yet to launch the website officially. As it is currently the beta version, there might be some missing parts, mistakes or bugs that require handling. We will announce the full version of the website with improvements soon!

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

@cogirmak Thank you for the interest! We have yet to launch the website officially. As it is currently the beta version, there might be some missing parts, mistakes or bugs that require handling. We will announce the full version of the website with improvements soon!

[CogIST @cog_ist]

"With this book, they aim to provide mechanisms in the human brain that allow for the conception of mathematical ideas."

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#cogist #cogistrecommendations #Lakoff #Núñez

[CogIST @cog_ist]

Cognitive Webinar series continues with investigating a very specific topic on its 16th session! Dr. Thom Scott-Philips (@tscottphillips) will be with us presenting "Great Ape Interaction: Ladyginian but not Gricean".

[CogIST @cog_ist]

Language as a bio-cultural hybrid - Excerpt from Cedric Boeckx's (@cedricboeckx) talk "Language, Cognition, Biology" 🧠✨️

[CogIST @cog_ist]

"Cybernetics is a discipline that emerged in the 1940s and sowed the seeds and, in a way, ignited the fuse of cognitive science and artificial intelligence."

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#cogist #cybernetics

[CogIST @cog_ist]

"His metaphysical stance, Cartesian dualism, distinguishes the inmaterial (the mind) from the material (the body), a highly controversial position today in what is dubbed as the mind-body problem."

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#cogistorigins #RenéDescartes

[CogIST @cog_ist]

The recording of our special Cognitive Debate event is now available on YouTube!
https://t.co/3LK6kVOhlf

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

What are your thoughts? Do you also think IIT is a pseudoscience?
(DOI of the preprint letter: 10.31234/osf.io/zsr78
Nature article regarding the bet, mentioning the adversarial experiments: https://t.co/3KP4cdDEH6)

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

Is Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness pseudoscience?
A new paper signed by a significant number of scientists once again challenged IIT, which has been a hot topic within the cognitive science community and is mentioned as one of the leading theories of consciousness.

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

As it can have such high impacts, the authors highlight the importance of not leading the general public into believing IIT to be a well-established and leading theory of consciousness, way before it really is. Until then, they suggest, we should call IIT pseudoscience.

[CogIST @cog_ist]

Bugün CogIST'in 4. doğum günü! Aradan geçen dört yılda 32 yeni wiki maddesi oluşturduk, 137 yayını sizlerle buluşturduk, 84 etkinliğimizle bilişsel bilim severlerle buluştuk.

[CogIST @cog_ist]

"Some of the writings included in this collection are seminal in that they laid the groundwork for the developments in neural networks."

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#cogist #cogistrecommendations #WarrenMcculloch

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

(The cognitive science hexagon logo has been taken from wikimedia commons at https://t.co/PgxAjbmxCC )

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

What does the future hold for cognitive science?
In their 2019 article “What happened to cognitive science?” ( https://t.co/W4bBK8h5d8 ) Núñez et al. investigated whether cognitive science’s early aim of being an interdisciplinary field has been successful or not.

[The Cognizer @the_cognizer]

Is there a single interdisciplinary cognitive science or are there only cognitive sciences in which researchers stay mainly in their respective fields but refer to others only when it is necessary? What are your thoughts and why? Feel free to mention them!