Automatically minded

Cognitive novelties, informational form, and structural-causal explanations

“…This demonstrates that even when motor patterns underlying algorithms are mastered, they are not automatized, and continue to require monitoring and control. (Fridland 2014(Fridland , 2017.…”

Not being there: An analysis of expertise‐induced amnesia

“…Whether it is correct to think of automatic actions as being entirely outside the realm of conscious (or intentional or deliberate) control, attention, working memory and, for the most part, introspection has been questioned by Ellen Fridland (2017). And it does seem reasonable to think that some actions naturally classified as automatic can be attended to; for example, you might automatically jump back from a falling object that startles you while being consciously aware of what you are doing.…”

Naïve Realism and the Cognitive Penetrability of Perception

“…A related idea has been defended by Zenon Pylyshyn, who first coined the term ‘cognitive penetration.’ Pylyshyn argues that cognitive penetration requires that beliefs have a “semantically coherent” (1999: 343) influence upon perception on the basis that causal influence is insufficient. While this idea has not gone unchallenged (Stokes ), it has been robustly defended by Fiona Macpherson (: 26; Macpherson : 9–10), and is often claimed to be partially definitive of the phenomenon (Brogaard and Gatzia ; Burnston ; Fridland ; Gross ; Lupyan ; Teng ; Wu ). In particular, Macpherson argues that the semantic coherence condition can help distinguish cases of cognitive penetration from cases like the following:…”