How We Think: Live on Substack
Come explore Associative Mindworks on Substack—my evolving magazine of cognitive inquiry.
Inside, you’ll find a baker’s dozen articles (with more on the way). Together, they build from neurological foundations toward a theory of mind. We trace the arc from emotional origins to conscious thought, and examine the daily tug-of-war between feeling and reason that shapes our decisions.
Table of Contents in Substack
- The Almost Gate: How Neurons Shape What We Notice The starting point
- The Brain’s Gatekeeper: Neural Threshold
- How We Think: Patterns and Words; Similarity and Logic
- Learning with Almost Gates
- What Powers Creativity
- Mentalese and the Two Modes of Thought
- All or Nothing: The Hidden Switch that Powers Cognition
- Layers of Neurons Yield Brain Maps
- The Almost Gate Swings Between Brain and Mind
- Introducing Associative Mindworks A broader perspective
- Cognitive Hierarchy Example The Eye uses neurons like the brain does
- 3S Imperatives Source of our Emotions
- Cortex Combines Senses, Emotions, and Knowledge into Thoughts
- Two Thoughts, One Brain: How We Decide
Citation
|Featured Image of Retina Micrograph from The Eye Window of the World. Torstar Books Inc, 1984. George V. Kelvin with help from Gerald Robinson, National Institutes of Health
