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The Deliberation Taboo

2026-02-24

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<p>Cognitive science is the scientific study of thinking. However, thinking in the colloquial sense of the term is conscious, attentive deliberation, and the vast majority of cognitive science is concerned with automatizable operations such as detecting stimuli, storing and retrieving information, and parsing sentences. This paper argues that cognitive science has lost sight of deliberative thought as a distinctiv...

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Literature Corpus work: e7f3deb2-17f0-5770-a7d2-9bffcd816f45
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/ryzqd_v1

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