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	<title>Encefalus &#187; Philosophical</title>
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		<title>Can all things be random?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last summer I was reading this book: The Origin of  Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

The book was dealing mainly with the complexity of economic systems. It actually tried to introduce a new field of economic analysis Complexity Economics, that is inspired by the recent trend of complexity science and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything is fuzzy ;-)</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/fuzzy/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/fuzzy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have started dabbling with fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory. You&#8217;ll probably start wondering what these are. I won&#8217;t try to give you a definition, but rather I&#8217;ll give you a few examples to help you understand yourself.
I don&#8217;t like the mathematical way that concepts like fuzzy logic are first presented. A mathematician [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are psychologists afraid of math?</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/psychologists-afraid-math/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/psychologists-afraid-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello there guys (and girls)!
It&#8217;s been a month and two days since I wrote my last post. I am really short on time, but as you can see I always write when I have the time and an interesting subject on my hands  

My hands
What I want to talk about today is the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woah! Back from complexity people :P</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/woah-complexity-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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Hello there guys! It&#8217;s been about 3 months that I haven&#8217;t posted anything! You&#8217;ve probably thought I am dead   Let me tell you guys (and gals). Encefalus ain&#8217;t dead! It&#8217;s just been that I&#8217;ve been so busy, that I literally didn&#8217;t have any time to write one of my traditional long posts.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monkey Island: This is where you live</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/monkey-island-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I return after nearly missing for a month. This time, I won&#8217;t write about my current interests which revolve around computation in social sciences. This time I am writing to revisit politics. Actually, I don&#8217;t know why, after a month not having published an article I feel the urge to throw some random rant. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there any truth to pure computational models of social life?</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/philosophical/truth-pure-computational-models-social-life/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/philosophical/truth-pure-computational-models-social-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I&#8217;m sorry for not having written for so long, but I am really busy.   Anyway, this time was not wasted, since I have passed a large part of my free time dealing with new ideas.
These ideas revolve around computation and a possible formal framework of methodology in social sciences.
In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;E&#8221; factor</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/factor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolution]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there guys   It&#8217;s been a long time that I haven&#8217;t written an article. The reason is that I have SO many things to do, that I really don&#8217;t have the time to update all my projects as often. Between my new projects, like Raskolnikov&#8217;s Dream and Musikality Net, I had to deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s going on with evolutionary psychology?</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/philosophical/evolutionary-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/philosophical/evolutionary-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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I haven&#8217;t written for sometime due to time constraints, but I decided to come back today to comment on an article I just read, before I lose my track of thoughts.
The article was published in Scientific American and is this: Evolution of the Mind: 4 Fallacies of Psychology
This article is written by Philosopher of science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can computation be the answer? The violation of the second law of thermodynamics</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/computation-answer-violation-law-thermodynamics/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/computation-answer-violation-law-thermodynamics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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Stephen Wolfram
Lately I&#8217;ve been reading Stephen Wolfram&#8217;s A New Kind of Science. As you can guess from the title, Wolfram makes a few great remarks about the future and the methods of science.
Traditional science uses mathematics. What mathematics do, is to quantify problems, find regularities and then use equations to describe these regularities. What this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The nature of authority</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/nature-authority/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/nature-authority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://encefalus.com/?p=1868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest post we talked about the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos: The death of Alexandros Grigoropoulos (drugs, guns, cops and tasers part II). Since then, Greece continues to be shocked by riots, protests and various forms of resistance against authority.
Some people even managed to occupy the national tv network, at the same time, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous ideas revisited: Controversial books, swearing and other stuff</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/dangerous-ideas-revisited/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/dangerous-ideas-revisited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who read Encefalus, probably remember this article: Dangerous Ideas: Information and cultural revolution in the age of the internet or metacognition in the modern society
The reason I am mentioning this, is this article I found on the web: Ten Of The Most Controversial Books!
The latter article refers (pretty obviously) to books that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agent based models in social sciences</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/agent-based-models/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/agent-based-models/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been digging into the subject of agent based models of social sciences. Agent based models are defined by wikipedia as following

An agent-based model (ABM) is a computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous individuals in a network, with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free will revisited in the face of quantum physics</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/free-will-revisited-quantum-physics/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/free-will-revisited-quantum-physics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://encefalus.com/?p=1707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have been reading this book: The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind. The book deals, quite obviously, with philosophy of mind and all the matters that touch this subject, including free will. The author is Ben Goertzel who happens to be a very interesting person. He holds a PhD in mathematics, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deductive indeterminism &#8211; The case for a science of history</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/philosophical/deductive-indeterminism-case-science-history/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/philosophical/deductive-indeterminism-case-science-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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I was reading this book the other day: Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life. It&#8217;s a very interesting book that deals with the cutting edge of current social and cognitive science: the application of computational modelling in social sciences. I will not talk about the details of this book here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logic</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/philosophical/logic/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/philosophical/logic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very simple title. What logic has to do with Encefalus, a blog that mainly deals with psychological issues?
Logic is something that I was always interested in, not for any special reason, but because I am a math-logic geek. But beyond that, I always believed that you can never really do science, unless you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with information overflow</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/dealing-informational-overflow/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/dealing-informational-overflow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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Lately I have to deal with a lot of things in my life. So, I have been thinking about the relationship between information and the human cognitive system. How much information can we absord at a time? How can we filter the noise out of it and keep the useful stuff? How can we manage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different view on economics: maybe all we really need</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/different-view-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/different-view-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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The recent economic crisis made me think a lot about the subject of economics. As I&#8217;ve said in earlier posts, I&#8217;m very interested in economics, and I believe them to be an integral part of cognitive science, or any science that aims to comprehend the human behavior and civilization (Some thoughts on a new micro-economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>School sucks (you know it does!) and there&#8217;s a reason why</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/school-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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There is a blog in Psychology Today called Freedom to Learn. Its author is Peter Gray. His resume is: &#34;a research professor of psychology at Boston College, is a specialist in developmental and evolutionary psychology and author of an introductory psychology textbook, Psychology, now in its 5th edition.&#34;
This blog has some very interesting articles. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on a new micro-economic model and paradigm, through the integration of psychology into economics</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/general/new-micro-economic-paradigm-integration-psychology/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/general/new-micro-economic-paradigm-integration-psychology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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The other day I was writing an article for Encefalus concerning economics and studying their relation to psychology. However, as I was writing it, I stumbled upon some problems, like what is the definition of economics. Obviously, modern economists might have different opinions among them, and I, as a psychologist, have a different view on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lotteries, poverty AND credit cards this time along with the proper social and scientific analysis :)</title>
		<link>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/lotteries-poverty-credit-cards-time-social-implications/</link>
		<comments>http://encefalus.com/cognitive/lotteries-poverty-credit-cards-time-social-implications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Encefalus</dc:creator>
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GeorgeLoewenstein
Remember the article Lotteries, poverty and social implications? I found this article in Scientific American : Lottery Tickets and Credit Cards: The Dangers of an Irrational Brain. It&#8217;s an interview with the researcher who&#8217;s work we commented in Lotteries, poverty and social implications. He is called George Loewenstein.
What I particularly liked about this interview is [...]]]></description>
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