Cognitive Thrift 11 – Neuroeconomics

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 11 - Neuroeconomics Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 21, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It is differentiated from neuroeconomics, which looks at decision-making in general with regards to economics in addition to the brain basis of that behaviour. For instance, one researcher, Paul Zak, isolated oxytocin as the bonding hormone …

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Cognitive Thrift 10 – OCD

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 10 - OCD Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 20, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How does this apply to you outside of diagnoses of OCD? Rick Rosner: Through our talks I've developed of what I believe, I believe that simple forms of order are more likely to be …

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Cognitive Thrift 9 – Major Figures

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 9 - Major Figures Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 14, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Our discussion went from scientific process in general to discussions about spiritism and the afterlife in addition to specifics about ghosts, the devil, angels, and so on, and then it went into historical …

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Cognitive Thrift 7 – Faith and Science

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 7 - Faith and Science Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 12, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: That sounds like an anthropomorphism and a teleological view tied together that then becomes the lens through which the taxonomical classifications are had or made and the process itself is done. Rick …

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Cognitive Thrift 6 – Proto-Science

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 6 - Proto-Science Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 11, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Some subtleties can be added to this. For instance, a generalized spirit world or any manner of afterlife seem different than any of ghosts, devil or Satan, spirits inhabiting animals, and so on. …

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Cognitive Thrift 5 – Cognitive Economics

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 5 - Cognitive Economics Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 10, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Rick, you have mentioned some parts, in other discussions, about low-cost, beneficial, non-empirical belief systems. For instance, about things that are non-provable, some might deem them non-meaningful by that definition, or matters …

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Cognitive Thrift 4 – Motor Ability

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 4 - Motor Ability Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 9, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: There’s an aspect to do with motor ability. The degree to which an organism travels. How regular and localized is its general itinerary in addition its kin? And human beings having a …

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Cognitive Thrift 3 – Size

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 3 - Size Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 8, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What are some of your ideas about cognitive thrift with respect to size? Rick Rosner: One, it requires a lot of resources to run a thinking organism. It costs a lot in terms of energy. Two, …

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Cognitive Thrift 2 – Error Reduction

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 2 - Error Reduction Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 7, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: That recalls two things for me. On the one hand, the strength of the cognitive system. On the other hand, its weaknesses too. What would cognitive economic state about the strengths and weaknesses of an evolved …

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Cognitive Thrift 1 – The Start

In-Sight Publishing Cognitive Thrift 1 - The Start Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner May 6, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: When we talk about aspects of efficiency in thought as an implication of optimal informational arrangements such as mass and gravitational forces to make aggregations of matters as representative of information efficiency, …

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