What is Cognitive Science?

What is Cognitive Science? How can we unlock the secrets of the mind? What even is a mind? In this first lecture from Cognitive Science - A Multidisciplinary Introduction, we'll get into how cognitive scientists approach the science of the mind!


0:00 - What is cognitive science?
1:03 - What is a mind?
4:22 - Cognitive science is interdisciplinary
7:25 - Information processing
9:33 - Functionalism
13:33 - The multiple realizability thesis
15:27 - The computer metaphor
17:23 - Reductionism
18:48 - Wrapping up
20:48 - Key concepts

Sources:
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