About This Blog

On Becoming Sentient is written by Ryan Carmody. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and will receive a second Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy in Spring 2013.

He has worked as an early intervention therapist for autistic children, a bartender, and a store manager for a large retail chain. He has done research in the areas of deception detection, stereotype threat, and the perception of infidelity.

Broadly, this blog is about cognitive science; an interdisciplinary field that encompasses aspects of psychology, philosophy, neurobiology, linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence.

More specifically, it is about human interaction, cognition & perception, romantic relationships, semantics, evolution, game theory, deception, existentialism, agency & intentionality, moral reasoning, consciousness & free will, religion, happiness & suffering, and robots.

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