Comments on: The Interdisciplinary Game http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/06/20/the-interdisciplinary-game/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Months of the Year: Neuroanthropology 2008 « Neuroanthropology http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/06/20/the-interdisciplinary-game/#comment-4375 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:54:06 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=492#comment-4375 [...] basic themes of neuroanthropology through The New York Neuroanthropology Times Today; covered the challenges of interdisciplinary research; and wrote about the controversy over “gay brains.” Plus he asked whether we are Wired for [...]

]]> By: Andy http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/06/20/the-interdisciplinary-game/#comment-2533 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:29:17 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=492#comment-2533 It’s hard work. I spent a year (we had food breaks, etc :-) ) discussing the meaning of the word “cognition” with a biologist. I’m a psychologist. His starting point was, something like, it’s rubbish. It was hard work. I hope to write up the thing one day, but for now all I’ve managed to do is dump four representative quotations from the literature in my blog. (My favourite explanation comes from Neisser but I also love how LeDoux spells out the problem.)

Words are trivial, etc, etc, but it’s amazing how coming to some kind of understanding about the meaning of these terms, how they’re used, makes it much easier to communicate.

Oh, also I’ve been trying to keep a list of… hmmm I called them explanation postulates, but that’s not quite right. Anyway, they’re over here. Point 5 is probably relevant.

Sorry this is all a bit hand wavy, but thought I’d say hello!

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