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Intelligence that is neither artificial, mystical, or anthropocentric.
Aug 13, 2023 • 
Tom Rearick
Honey Bee Dead Reckoning
Can honey bee navigation explain human cognition?
Sep 19 • 
Tom Rearick
How Our Left Brain Lies to Us
How declarative knowledge and left hemisphere dominance warp our sense of reality
Sep 6 • 
Tom Rearick
A Rock Hopper's Conundrum
How Do We Avoid Stumbles When We Don't Even Look At Our Feet?
Jul 11 • 
Tom Rearick
The Hobbyists That Enabled Ukraine’s Game-Changing Assault
Aircraft carriers, tanks, and ballistic missiles are so yesterday
Jun 4 • 
Tom Rearick
How Mental Representations Emerge
"The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation" Jeff Hawkins
May 30 • 
Tom Rearick
What's So Great About Honey Bees?
"Bees, not bonobos, are the species to ponder” Daniel Dennett
Apr 28 • 
Tom Rearick
Visual Indexing
The Key to Multiple Paradoxes in the Cognitive Sciences
Mar 25 • 
Tom Rearick
Metaphors We Think By
How We Try to Comprehend an Incomprehensible Brain
Feb 26 • 
Tom Rearick
Mindfulness Meditation for Skeptics
How Meditation Works to Reduce Anxiety
Feb 12 • 
Tom Rearick
AI Reset
Why Scaling Won't Get Us to Human Level AI
Jan 16 • 
Tom Rearick
Why do people believe true things?
Ignorance and misperceptions are not puzzling. The challenge is to explain why some people see reality accurately.
Published on Conspicuous Cognition • Jan 13
In Awe of Nescience
Exploring faith, magic, and technology
Dec 27, 2024 • 
Tom Rearick
Circleville 6F2
How Technology Shaped Culture 100 Years Ago
Dec 14, 2024 • 
Tom Rearick
Intelligence Evolved
Intelligence Evolved
All about natural intelligence: The technology that arrives after AI goes bust.
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