# Cognitive Revolution **Domain:** Cognitive Science / Intellectual History **Doc Type:** Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Macy Conferences]], [[George A. Miller]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Information-Processing Psychology]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition The cognitive revolution was the mid-twentieth-century shift toward studying mental representation, memory, language and information processing as legitimate explanatory objects. ## Schedule–Loop Context In Schedule and Loop it represents cybernetics' theoretical victory: the interior returned as something a model could describe, even while schedule-based control continued to dominate institutions. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "I read once that human brains began shrinking about 10 thousand years ago and are now as much as 15% smaller than they were then." > **— Brian Eno**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Evolution/Human Brains Have Shrunk Since Civilization Began by Brian Eno|Human Brains Have Shrunk Since Civilization Began by Brian Eno]]