#1212 Marina Dubova: The Cognitive Foundations of Science

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Riccardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Marina Dubova. She is a non-medier prostructural fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, and today we're talking about her work related to the cognitive mechanisms of discovery and also the cognitive foundations of the scientific method. So, Dr.

Dubova, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thanks so much for inviting me. Okay, so uh first of all, what is discovery and how do you approach such a topic? Yeah, that's a great question.

Uh I typically think of discovery in a cognitive way. So I think of science in general as a cognitive activity of how we as humans try to make sense of the world. So in that way, science is a cognitive process and it's just uh and it's characterized by many subprocesses that we often distinguish in any cognitive system. For example, that would include how we observe the world, how we experiment or actively uh investigate the world around us, uh, how do we represent the world based on our observations, how do we categorize the world or like uh parse the world into multiple parts.

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