The Oxford companion to the mind
by Richard Gregory, O. L. Zangwill · first published 1987
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The long-awaited second edition to the highly acclaimed and immensely successful Oxford Companion to the Mind includes 900 articles on every aspect of the brain and consciousness and over 300 contributors from the worldʼs leading scholars. Cultural as well as scientific in its approach, it combines authoritative description and analysis with lightness, wit, and a personal touch. New entries include artificial life, attachment theory, caffeine, conjuring, cruelty, drama, extra-terrestrial intelligence, face-to-face communication, genetics of mental illness, imagination, lying, puzzles and twins
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The 'Oxford Companion to the Mind' http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-Mind-Richard-Gregory/... And also the Oxford Companion to Philosophy are my go to reference points on the subject. Just really great encyclopedias on the two…
on “Ask HN: Psychology Books” ↗…operates at a bitrate equivalent of well beyond 500 gigabits per second Do you have a source for this claim? Academic sources suggest numbers 4-5 orders of magnitude smaller: 6Mbps [1], 10Mbps [2]. [1] The Oxford Companion to the Mind (1987) [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564115/
on “Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles [video]” ↗…The Wason Selection Task. I read about the first one eons ago and was impressed that Marilyn Von Savant was vindicated. Shoutout to her! The name Wason was unknown to me but I bought a book called The Oxford Companion to The Mind (new in 1987!) and his 'task' was featured in it (pg. 639 in my edition). I spent a lot of time satisfying myself as to the answer and kind of got there. This Christmas I am reading Stephen Pinker's "Rationality"…
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