What Hideo Kojima Taught Us About Technology and Human Freedom

Theory of Mind

In comparative cognition and child development, having a theory of mind means understanding that others have minds. Among other things, theory of mind entails understanding that seeing leads to knowing and that others’ knowledge may be different from one’s own, which confers the ability to practice…

Pre-Complexity

Third, and perhaps most important of all, Weaver wrote an article in 1947 that pioneered the notion that science had crossed a watershed sometime after 1900, away from problems of “simplicity” and into the arena of what he called “disorganized complexity.” The harbinger of the new approach was…

On Empathy

Even though our abilities to mentalize and to empathize are mostly used in concert when we try to understand other people’s intentions, beliefs, desires, and feelings, preliminary evidence from studies of populations of patients with marked social deficits, like those with autism or psychopathy (see Box 27.1)…

Anthromorphic Problems

The more we learn about nonhuman intelligence, however, the more we find that abilities previously thought to be uniquely human are not. Many of the abilities listed earlier have been found to varying degrees in the great apes. For example, it was thought until the 1960s that humans alone…