Cognitive Wonderland
Tommy Blanchard, Lance S. Bush, Nicholas Kircher, Chenchen Li, Ishmael Hodges, Walter Veit, Mike X Cohen, PhD, Eli Stark-ElsterScience, philosophy, and science fiction geekiness, with a special interest in neuroscience and philosophy of mind. Publishes weekly on Thursdays.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 128 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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What Is Attention; Or, Why Can’t My Kid Find the Easter Eggs?
One of the surprising things about having young kids is how bad they are at looking for stuff. We did an Easter egg hunt this year with my 2 and 5-year-old. This was the first year the 5-year-old seemed relatively competent and able to find...
Imperfect Loops
Loops, cycles, oscillations, whatever you want to call them, show up everywhere in nature. There’s a reason for that: for something to persist while still being dynamic, it has to cycle back to where it started. But coming back to where you...
Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Thoughts on The Mind’s I by Dennett and Hofstadter
Things bear a special relationship with themselves. A hammer can’t hammer itself—at least, unless you get a very weird hammer. When we consider questions like “What is the mind?” or “What...
Thoughts After 2 Years of Writing
On May 3, 2024, I published my first post on Cognitive Wonderland.
At the time, I was craving some sort of creative output. I had done some fiction writing, but never a serious attempt at writing non-fiction for a general audience. I had i...
You Can't Think Your Way Into Better Habits
Many of us want to change their behaviors in some way—we may want to procrastinate less, eat healthier, stop smoking, or go to the gym more.
While it’s easy to beat yourself up about not having enough willpower to simply make the change, t...
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PhD in neuroscience, degrees in philosophy and computer science, postdoctoral training at Harvard. I write about science and philosophy of mind. Occasional science fiction author.
I'm a researcher that focuses on the psychology of metaethics, metaphilosophy, and methodological issues in experimental philosophy. See my Linktree here: https://linktr.ee/lanceindependent
Founder @ CommaDash | BlockedStack creator | Ruiner of the Zeitgeist | Brain Nerd
Theoretical and computational neuroscience. \ud83e\udef0\ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08\ud83c\udff3️⚧️
Just a high-power low-confidence potato. Temper your expectations accordingly. “When the going gets tough, just lower your standards and smile.” Max Platte (my drunk ex-roommate, you wouldn’t know him.)
Dr. Walter Veit is an award-winning philosopher, writer, and lecturer. His research brought him all over the world, meeting the Dalai Lama in India, bomb-sniffing rats in Tanzania, mischievous corvids in Cambridge, and self-aware fish in Japan.
ex-neuroscience professor | textbook author (linear algebra, stats, calculus) | best-selling Udemy instructor (AI, machine-learning, coding, math) | LinkedIn non-influencer | founder @ Sincxpress.com. You can learn a lot of math with a bit of code.
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