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Life Sciences Sains Kognitif (cognitive science), what is that? and what job prospect?

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HatikuTerAccident
post Jun 22 2010, 03:45 PM

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QUOTE(OMG! @ Jun 19 2010, 11:18 AM)
i thought cognitives sciences should be more to counselling and psychology,
it is not a sub branch of life sciences.
anyone mind to clarify?
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I'm seeing alot of icon_question.gif signs here.
Sedih. sad.gif

Okay, lemme try to explain. sweat.gif


Cognitive science is the branch of science relate to: intelligence.
When we say intelligence, we refer to: how the brain works.
Cognition, is defined as : the mental processes of the brain.

And by now you might be thinking what cognitive scientists do are cut up brains and put them in a jar like doctors do. NO.

What CS (not CounterStrike mind you) is, you may already encounter in your daily life. cool2.gif

There is a reason why everytime you Google "Cognitive Science" there are results showing that it is related to almost everything including life sciences, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and anthropology. rclxub.gif

Now try to think about this: How do computers work?
Lets take the basics, memory storage in a computer. Isn't there a similar pattern of how we humans store memory with the way a human store data?Yes.
Btw, CS in UNIMAS involves some programming, so brace yourselves.
And now, compare how a baby's brain develops with an adult's. Do they process info similarly? What happens during their life stages?
That is where psychology and anthropology comes in.
Then if you are able to think a lot, how do you express these thoughts into channels that make others understand you in your interactions? There you go, linguistics.
And since programming is also a language, it makes sense.
There are also parts of the brain that function for different purposes. Yep, neuroscience.
And artificial intelligence fits in because after you've answered my first question above, you know that machines can imitate humans. CS allows us to ask Can machines EVER be intelligent? If they can imitate what we can do such as decision making and to think rationally, does that make em smart? shocking.gif
Plus, there's also philosophy involved. But don't worry, its fun. rclxm9.gif

Then there's the job prospects. You can choose, to be a psychologist, or a computer programmer, or an human factor specialist, or a linguist, or a computer game developer wub.gif , or an inventor, anything. More and more jobs are created each day anyways. Plus, UNIMAS is among the first to teach Pure CS, so there's lots of potential rclxm9.gif

The human brain is the only organ that the world doesn't understand yet. thumbup.gif


Its a tough course, yeah. But there's never a course that's easy.
I'm not trying to scare you.
But, its really an exciting course.
I may be wrong, so, this doesn't really represent CS as a whole. So, go research sum more! Heheh




I just hope that answers a bit of the questions.





(Btw, I'm studying CS at UNIMAS.)



 

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