Archive - Cognitive Wonderland

December 2024

Fiction: Hedonics, Inc.

A fiction story for the holidays

Dec 26, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

Why So Much Psychology Research is Wrong

The replication crisis, fraud, and questionable research practices

Dec 19, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

Wonder, Awe, and Seeing with Firstness

Reflecting on why I'm writing

Dec 12, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

One weird trick for embracing reductionism

What improv can teach us about overcoming oversimplifications and deflationary explanations

Dec 5, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

November 2024

The Senses We Take For Granted

We have more than five senses—let's give them some thanks

Nov 27, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

Science is Philosophy

Scientists answer and inform philosophical questions

Nov 21, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

The Magic of Emergence

New concepts arise when the right parts align

Nov 14, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

Reduction and Multiple Levels of Description

In which I talk about computers and pretend it's philosophy

Nov 7, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

State of the Wonderland: Q2

The second quarterly check-in on how Cognitive Wonderland is doing

Nov 4, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

October 2024

Neuroscience is Hard

Give neuroscientists a break, they've got a lot to deal with

Oct 31, 2024 •

Tommy Blanchard

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