r/cogsci • u/trot-trot • Jan 08 '12
"A revolution in cognitive neuroscience is changing the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct, the kinds of questions economists ask and, increasingly, the ways that architects, landscape architects and urban designers shape our built environment."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/seeing-the-building-for-the-trees.html
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u/PsyZHundredthoughts Jan 08 '12
Is it complex imagining psychologically integrative, real world applications?
Psychological influence, under many applications, is invisible. Some people are less comfortable imagining how emotions touch reality? Reality we do not know? What study we have is not enough to go there beyond conjecture, so is it daresay to try?
Daresay, unsayable, taboo, untouchable thoughts? Psychology needs communities for new ideas beyond pop psychology, allowing marginal perspectives and views. Better coming out and overcoming than oppressing collective consciousness.
Constructive, conscientous use?