{"id":1030,"date":"2006-11-05T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2006\/11\/05\/cognitive-science-the-last-chance\/"},"modified":"2006-11-05T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T20:32:00","slug":"cognitive-science-the-last-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2006\/11\/05\/cognitive-science-the-last-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Science: The Last Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;During the World Cup soccer tournament in Japan in 2002, the match between Ireland and Germany went into several minutes of extra &#8216;injury&#8217; time. The score was 1-0 to Germany, and Ireland&#8217;s hopes of getting into the semifinals seemed to be finished. Then at the eleventh hour, Robbie Keane scored a goal. For every Irish fan who watched the match there could be no doubt: the striker had saved Ireland&#8217;s World Cup hopes. The previous hour and a half of skill and luck, good or bad, of a team of trained professionals seemed as nothing compared to the single final stroke. Did Keane really save the day? The question illustrates a curious feature of human thought. In a temporal sequence of events, people zoom in on the most recent one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ruth M.J. Byrne, <i>The Rational Imagination: How People Create Alternatives to Reality<\/i> p. 157.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;During the World Cup soccer tournament in Japan in 2002, the match between Ireland and Germany went into several minutes of extra &#8216;injury&#8217; time. The score was 1-0 to Germany, and Ireland&#8217;s hopes of getting into the semifinals seemed to be finished. Then at the eleventh hour, Robbie Keane scored a goal. For every Irish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}