The first thing one notices when one enters a neuroscience laboratory are the research tools and their infrastructure. They dominate the space. Neuroscience is a paradigmatic laboratory science. Even in our increasingly “computationalist” times, lab-generated data remains paramount. What Motivated…
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was an inspirational figure in the history of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and his ideal utilization of time stands as a tall standard for followers to emulate. 08:00 pm – 10:00 pm Rest10:00 pm – 04:00 am Write04:00…
“Lord Chaitanya did not advent Himself to liberate only a few men in India. Rather, His main objective was to emancipate all living entities of all countries throughout the entire universe and preach the eternal dharma. Lord Chaitanya states in…
Bali Mahārāja Surrenders the UniverseWhenever the activities of Vāmanadeva are described in the course of a ritualistic ceremony, whether the ceremony be performed to please the demigods, to please one’s forefathers in Pitṛloka, or to celebrate a social event like…
‘Meaning’ and truth can, then, be conceptualised not as single, fixated and decidable, but as phenomena in a relatively open space of uncertainty and possibility. And communication of and theorising about them can, accordingly, be meaningfully conducted as suspensive rather…
The open access version can be found on MIT’s website. To learn more, see the corresponding chapter of Movement Matters (MIT Press, 2022). Here, I describe in more detail a recent study (Davis et al., 2022) of the representation of…
The open access version can be found on MIT’s website. The 4E-approach to human cognition has opened new perspective to many human activities, to reading and writing among other things. The 4E-approach enables us to focus on the essence of…
The open access version can be found on MIT’s website. When thinking about a child learning about the concept of equivalence with a balance scale, there are many things to consider. How does the presence of the balance scale and…
We had been using the late Steve Pearce and Hanna Pickard’s 2010 paper, “The Moral Content of Psychiatric Treatment”, in teaching the MSt in Practical Ethics at Oxford. In that paper, they argue that moral norm breaking is casually and…
Math teachers use gestures when confronting math problems. For example, a teacher might gesture a geometric shape with their hands, and other teachers might echo this same gesture with their hands. Or a teacher might propose a rotation of a…
So scientists: next time an interviewer asks your opinion on the ethical side of your work, I have two suggestions: And for all that people sometimes talk about a “national conversation”, a conversation isn’t something that just under 54 million…
The results have implications for both education and theory. With respect to education practice, we can return to our example outlined at the outset—the optimal strategy for teaching a child something new might differ depending on autism-spectrum characteristics. If people…
Cognitive psychology has undergone a paradigm shift in the ways we understand how knowledge is acquired – away from brain-bound models towards an embodied view. Learning occurs through the body and is grounded in both perception and action. That is, cognition is…
While these choices are not yet directly upon us, he says that there are steps to be taken immediately. One area that demands more support is the field of interpretability research in AI. “At the moment,” he explains, “we’ve got…
