BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

In the article, “ You can’t play 20 questions with nature and win ”(1973), the cognitive psychologist  Allen Newell  , reasons about the real value of the amount of scientific research that has been continuously produced. Despite recognizing the stimulant role of  new studies in the experimental psychology field, he states that the majority of these studies are usually focused on individual phenomena, like the Posner’s phenomenon of apparent rotation, and the Klahr’s phenomenon of coding works, for instance. Newell believes that this pattern of study leaves aside the fact that perhaps some of these findings could be more productive if related each other bringing more progress and new perspectives to Psychology development as a mature science. According to the author, the recurrent using this form of approaching to investigate these phenomena as a binary problem creates limitations. Nonetheless, Newell asserts that this dominant current experimental style may not be s...

Regardless of all the recent advancements of the technology industries, like Artificial Intelligence (AI), we are still far from the idea that a computer could contain any kind of consciousness. As a fundamentally programmed device, computers responses are not based on the spontaneous variety of real subjective human experiences or capable of inferring about anything according to a pre-established belief about something as real people would have. As much as people try to improve machines to create prototypes capable of simulate human experiences, important complex features of brain functions are still missed in these machines. Numberless unconscious processes of perception or thinking usually happen in our brain all the time without your awareness, influencing even the thoughts that we misinterpret as conscious, but that in fact are shaped by unconscious guides as well. I believe that a computer can be constructed to work in this same way, a...