How Is My iPhone Changing Me? Neuroscience and Thomistic Psychology | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
The Thomistic Institute
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Cognitive Psychology
Empirical study of animal life activity cannot leave behind aristotelian reflection on the different kinds of consciousness or cognition. Whatever metaphor hypothesis neuro scientists work with informs their research into the brain, and it also suggests the best hopes of in the brain's work by artificial means. Human memory is not mere retrieval, but an act of conjuring, inherently creative and akin to imagination. Deciding is not simply running a sub routine, but an exercise of agency, of will. And abstract thought is more than processing information - it is understanding concepts and affirming truth.
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