Cognitive Science of Social Media, Technology, & Meaning | Mark Miller & Ben White (EP 38)

[Re-uploaded podcast with audio at the start fixed] Mark Miller is a cognitive scientist, and Ben White is currently completing a PhD in the philosophy of cognitive science. From social media to AI to smart environments, technologies are transforming our lives. How can we understand the profound positive and negative effects they have? Cognitive science provides a framework to understand how these technologies influence our minds. In this podcast, expect to learn about the benefits and harms of social media, how social media subverts our natural drives, beliefs, and expectations that typically guide us through the world, how we are natural-born cyborgs that instinctively embrace technologies, and how we should think about ourselves and our relationship with technologies in this context. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:19 - The Predictive Processing Framework of Cognition 06:40 - How Social Media Impacts Us Psychologically 09:48 - How Social Media Subverts Our Cognition 17:40 - Social Media Takes Advantage of Natural Social Proclivities 22:37 - Why We Are Drawn To Social Media In the First Place 26:10 - Technology and How to Improve It 31:57 - Understanding Technology & Natural Born Cyborgs 43:00 - Predictive Processing as a Unified Framework in Cognitive Science Find Ben and Mark's work: -Ben's work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0Or4GMkAAAAJ&hl=en -Mark's Website: https://www.markdmiller.live/ Jack Roycroft-Sherry: -Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1qAI1huc87xNDrgy?si=62c281d9e8274694 -X: https://twitter.com/jack_roycroft -Medium: https://medium.com/@jackroycroftsherry