The use of artificial intelligence as a tool to model, test, and understand the human mind. By building computational models that perform cognitive tasks—recognizing faces, making decisions, learning languages—researchers can create and test theories about how our own cognition might work. If an AI model behaves like a human under certain conditions, it might suggest that the human brain is using a similar computational strategy. It's cognitive science's most powerful laboratory.
Example: "They weren't sure how children learn grammar until they used AI applied to cognitive sciences to build a model that learned the same way, confirming their hypothesis."
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Get the AI Applied to Cognitive Sciences mug.A logical fallacy where one dismisses an argument by claiming the opponent is delusional, cognitively impaired, or using ableist slurs to describe their mental state. The fallacy lies in treating cognitive capacity as a refutation of claims, as if being confused or mistaken in some areas invalidates everything someone says. This fallacy is particularly toxic because it weaponizes genuine cognitive differences and disabilities, using them as cudgels to dismiss dissent. "You're delusional" becomes a way of saying "I don't need to engage with your points" while performing the appearance of having refuted them. It's argument by ableism, not by reason.
Example: "She presented documented evidence of corruption, and his response was simply 'you're delusional.' Argumentum Ad Cognitionem: using accusations of cognitive failure to avoid confronting uncomfortable facts."
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The feeling in your heart that in the CIA has never actually done anything wrong, and that anyone who says they have is a conspiracy theorist.
"Mark still doesn't believe that MK Ultra was a real CIA operation, despite the CIA having confirmed the program's existence and having published information about it to the public."
"That's crazy. He must have CIA-Induced Cognitive Dissonance."
"That's crazy. He must have CIA-Induced Cognitive Dissonance."
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"You still don't believe that MK Ultra happened, even though the CIA publicly admitted to the program being real, and released documents detailing how it was carried out?"
"No dude, that stuff is too crazy to have ever actually happened."
"Wow. You must have CIA-Induced Cognitive Dissonance."
"No dude, that stuff is too crazy to have ever actually happened."
"Wow. You must have CIA-Induced Cognitive Dissonance."
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Get the Sexually Transmitted Infections & Diseases Is Cognitive Behavioral Skills mug.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."
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