Paul Thagard Ph.D.

Why Is ChatGPT So Smart and So Stupid?

ChatGPT is sometimes stupid because it is purely predictive, lacks accuracy goals and ethical values, and fails to disclose and evaluate its sources.

ChatGPT is sometimes stupid because it is purely predictive, lacks accuracy goals and ethical values, and fails to disclose and evaluate its sources.

What Systemic Racism Is and How to Overcome It

Systems consist of compositions, environments, structures, and mechanisms, so systemic change is more than individual change.

Systems consist of compositions, environments, structures, and mechanisms, so systemic change is more than individual change.

Why Do We Dream?

Dreams have been explained as divine communications, wish fulfillments, emotional regulations, or cognitive explorations. But dreams may just be neural byproducts.

Dreams have been explained as divine communications, wish fulfillments, emotional regulations, or cognitive explorations. But dreams may just be neural byproducts.

8 Principles of Emotional Software Design

Software applications and other technologies work better if they are tuned to the emotional needs of the people who use them.

Software applications and other technologies work better if they are tuned to the emotional needs of the people who use them.

Leonardo’s Analogies and Creativity

Leonardo da Vinci used analogies to generate new insights in fields from anatomy to architecture to painting. But not all of his favorite analogies were always useful.

Leonardo da Vinci used analogies to generate new insights in fields from anatomy to architecture to painting. But not all of his favorite analogies were always useful.

Metabalance: How to Combine Balance with Imbalance

In art, music, economics, and everyday life, we can enrich experience by combining desirable balance with the excitement of imbalance, requiring metabalance.

In art, music, economics, and everyday life, we can enrich experience by combining desirable balance with the excitement of imbalance, requiring metabalance.