PJ Stein
PJ Stein answered Anonymous' question

You are not going to start your career making what the internet says your job makes. It gives the median wages for that job. You will need to work up to that. Just as you will have to work up to the job you actually want. You have learned the book part, now you have … Read more

Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson answered Anonymous' question

Nothing specific I could find on the internet, but here's a bit of general information.

In 387 BCE, Plato is known to have suggested that the brain was the seat of the mental processes.

Cognitive psychologists are often heavily involved in running psychological experiments involving human participants, with the goal of gathering information related to how theRead more

Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren answered Anonymous' question

I've never heard the concept of thought come into question . . . I mean there a great number of theories regarding the physical world being real, but that "Thought" was pretty much a given. One of the more interesting is hard solipsism, where you could be just a brain in a vat, and the … Read more

Call me Z
Call me Z answered Anonymous' question

There is a dearth of cognitive psychologists on this site, I can't speak to their explanations of cognitive process, but none are needed to prove thoughts exist. How can they be denied? The proof is self-evident. 

Everything that was ever rendered by human effort grew from an initial thought, just as our opinions of them do. 

Cogito … Read more

Tom  Jackson
Tom Jackson answered Anonymous' question

One of those questions that requires a measured response lest the wrong conclusions be drawn.

We humans (most of anyway) realize instinctively (ha, ha) that animals below us on the philogenetic scale do not have the reasoning power that we do.

(And it goes without saying that all humans have human instincts.)

We are Homo sapiens.  { (Latin:Read more