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Concepts: How the Brain Constructs Reality, Emotional Experience and Who You Are - w/ Nicholas Shea
Description
Ever wonder why you can recognise your friend's face instantly but struggle to remember where you put your keys? Your brain is running the most sophisticated learning system ever created, and most of us have no clue how it actually works.
Nicholas Shea is an Oxford and King's College Researcher working in philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence.
He breaks down the fascinating psychology behind how we build concepts in our minds. Think of concepts as mental shortcuts - when you see a dog, you don't analyse four legs, fur, and a tail. Your brain instantly accesses everything you know about dogs.
We dissect these fundamental building blocks of learning into how the brain actually works and learns, and build mastery.
Three key takeaways:
- What builds basic concepts into subject mastery?
- How do emotions inform decision-making?
- The real difference between deliberate practice and passive learning
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Nicholas Shea
- Nick & his work - https://www.nicholasshea.co.uk/
- Book - Concepts at The Interface - https://philpapers.org/rec/SHECAT-11
- Paper - Concepts as Plug and Play Devices - https://www.nicholasshea.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Shea_22_Concepts_plug-and-play_RSTB_OA.pdf
Recommended Books
- "Consciousness Explained" - Daniel Dennet
- Metazoa : Animal minds and the birth of consciousness” - Peter Godfrey Smith
- "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Origins of Consciousness” -Peter Godfrey Smith
- "The Pleistocene Social Contract" - Kim Sterelny
- Helen Steward - Article - Do animals have free will - https://philosophersmag.com/do-animals-have-free-will/
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