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Cognitive versus Existential

My beef with cognitive approaches to motivation, emotion, and behavior: cognitivists tend to consider what happens in the head as products of what goes on in the head, with the implicit opposition to what happens "objectively" "in the world".  I see what happens in the head as tethered to the world that exists beyond the head.

Exploring the Problem Space

There are maps and means and a sense of purpose and direction. Of course, one will take many wrong turns – that goes with the process.