the.com/cognitive science
the field where philosophy asked what is the mind and computer science said hold my compiler.
means an interdisciplinary study of thinking that treats the mind as an information-processing system, borrowing tools from psychology, linguistics, AI, neuroscience, and philosophy.
from born in the 1950s-70s as researchers noticed psychology, linguistics, and the new field of computing were all quietly asking the same question: how does information become thought. the 1956 symposium at MIT and Chomsky's demolition of behaviorism lit the fuse; by 1979 the field had its own journal and name.
the hexagonsix founding fields, drawn as a hexagon in textbooks
killed behaviorismhelped prove minds arent just stimulus-response machines
gave AI languageearly AI and cog sci shared researchers and vocabulary
still arguingno consensus on what consciousness even is