Cognitivism came to prominence in the 1950s as a response to behaviourism. Cognitivist theories refer to the mind like a computer, and focus on how information is received, organised for storage and retrieved. Therefore, learning is also seen in this manner.
The main areas of focus for Love your Hippo are Learning, memory and how the brain adapts or changes to its environment.
These areas are also known as cognitive neuroscience, neural science, and neuroplasticity.
Learning and memory are closely related concepts. Learning is the acquisition of skill or knowledge, while memory is the expression of what you have acquired, but how the brain adapts is a lock that we are still finding the full code to.
To adapt and/or change to any situation is a unique skill not to mention the height of functionality and progress. Research has shown us that the brain can heal after an injury, it can adapt and change to environmental situations and it can develop in specific areas to compensate for other parts.
While the ‘meat suit’ is needed as we haven’t got to the point where we can put our brains in a robotic indestructible body, knowing that the brain has so much undiscovered capability is akin to the search for the holy grail.
In the words of Lisa Simpson ‘trust in yourself and you can achieve anything’.
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‘Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow…’
Plato. From the dialogue titled Sophist. The Fowler translation gives a variation.