Cognitive Sciences Applied to the Internet

A field that studies how human cognition interacts with the internet’s technical features: hyperlinks, search engines, multitasking environments, algorithmic recommendations. It investigates how the internet changes the way we think—distributed cognition, the Google effect on memory, the impact of constant interruptions on sustained attention, and the cognitive cost of navigating digital interfaces. It provides evidence for how the internet reshapes mental habits, both enabling and constraining thought.

Example: “Cognitive sciences applied to the internet revealed that relying on search engines changes how we remember: we recall where to find information rather than the information itself, outsourcing memory to the network.”

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 24, 2026

Theory of the Elasticity of Cognitive Sciences

A meta-framework examining how the cognitive sciences themselves stretch across disciplines, methods, and paradigms. The Elasticity of Cognitive Sciences studies how the field has evolved—from cybernetics to cognitive psychology to neuroscience to embodied cognition—and how its boundaries stretch under pressure from new research, new technologies, new questions. It asks: what are the limits of the cognitive sciences' stretch? When does stretching become dilution? How does the field recover from its own reductions? It's cognitive science reflecting on its own history and possibilities.

Theory of the Elasticity of Cognitive Sciences "Cognitive science started with computers as metaphor; now it includes embodiment, emotion, culture. Theory of the Elasticity of Cognitive Sciences says that's a stretch—a healthy one. The question is whether the field can stretch further—to include more of what makes us human—without breaking into pieces."

by Nammugal March 4, 2026

THEscience

Political paid off science where the "scientist" says and does whatever the govt tells them , to further their agenda , under threat of being fired # cancelled etc .

Masks dont work anyway so i'm not wearing one .
tHaTs nOt wHaT THEscience says !

by Infadel_macgee March 16, 2022