One more guideline…

Oh yeah, I almost forgot one more guideline. As stated in a previous post, I’m going to stick with a conversational writing style. I can’t stand formal writing, and I know that I won’t keep up with this if I move in that direction. When someone writes formally, I feel like they are trying to almost disguise that they “a human actually wrote this.” I like humans too much to disguise my being one. I’m probably one of the few people I know that went into computers because they like humans.

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My Background – Part 7: From Cognitive Science to Computer Science…

I was worried that I wasn’t going to be as interested in computer science as psychology. But, that fear soon subsided. It turned out that computer science is just as rich as cognitive science. And, there is the added benefit of the fact that human created computers and understood their creation better than the mind. It was nice not to have to “guess” as much, and just know that that was how us humans did it. To bad God couldn’t have at least been a guest lecturer in some of my psychology courses.

Also, it turns out that studying computers IS studying humans. My study of the human mind didn’t stop when I because a computer scientist. Humans created and programmed computers in their own image…on multiple levels.

Right now, a thousand examples of the statement above are swimming through my head. However, I’m going to stop with it because those examples each deserve there own posts. I’m also going to stop with my “background” for three reasons. First, my “career” experiences will make it into the future blog entries by the very nature of what they are. Secondly, as helpful as my career has been in terms of learning experience, my path before it is what helped me form the interests that I have now and am blogging about…for the most part. And, lastly, I’m getting bored.

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