by Omar Meriwani | Jun 30, 2024 | Evolutionary Psychology, Philosophy, Psychology
“How words do things with us?” is the title of chapter eight. It starts with the idea of how the virtual machines inside us are organised and how they could have a “virtual captain” of the crew, but not elevate the captain to have dictatorial power....
by Omar Meriwani | Jun 30, 2024 | Evolutionary Psychology, Philosophy, Psychology
Dennett begins his discussion of the evolution of consciousness by introducing the Baldwin Effect, which explains the impact of learned behaviour on evolution. This adaptation hastens evolution for an organism, giving it an advantage over hard-wired cousins of the...
by Omar Meriwani | Jun 12, 2024 | Philosophy, Psychology
The first thing that could be said about the book is it is one of the most important books written about moral psychology. Jonathan Haidt is the author; he is a social psychologist and one of the leaders of moral psychology. Haidt presents the idea that he mainly...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 31, 2024 | Linguistics, Psychology
The experiment that you mentioned about the Turks and the English speakers was very interesting. The native English speakers acted differently to emotionally loaded words than Turks who learned English later in life. Can we run away from a time or a place that we...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 29, 2024 | Philosophy, Psychology
Dennet dedicates the 6th chapter to discuss consciousness of time. The first question he raises is about an experiment where a person is asked to repeat what they hear from a recording of speech. The person can recount some of what they heard but not all, even though...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 29, 2024 | Philosophy, Psychology
In chapter five of his book “consciousness explained”, Dennett debunks the Cartesian Theatre idea and introduces his theory: the Multiple Drafts Model. Descartes’ idea, also known as Cartesian Theatre, persisted until the 20th century. Dennett...
