Tommy Blanchard

I write a popular newsletter (Cognitive Wonderland) where I combine my interests in philosophy and neuroscience. I'm a skeptic, philosophically a physicalist/naturalist/atheist, and lean heavily on research in the cognitive sciences to inform my views.

Some of my top posts:

• Attention Spans Aren't Shrinking (debunking a common misconception and describing what attention research actually says): https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/attention-spans-arent-shrinking
• We Are All Hive Minds (thinking about the brain as a form of swarm intelligence; how the neurons in the brain work together to create seemingly centralized intelligence, despite the lack of a "central planner" in the brain): https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/we-are-all-hive-minds
• Meta-Knowledge and Meta-Ignorance (about how we have imperfect knowledge of our own knowledge): https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/meta-knowledge-and-meta-ignorance
• The Seductive Allure of Neuro Self-Help (talking about why neuroscience isn't very useful for self-help, and why we see a ton of it anyways): https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/the-seductive-allure-of-neuro-self
• Why I Don't Often Mention Neuroscience (okay maybe the title isn't literally true, I talk about it a lot, but the article is about how, most of the time, neuroscience is irrelevant to what people actually want to know about, but gets thrown in as fancy-sounding decoration) https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-often-mention-neuroscience

You can also see some videos I've done talking to different experts here: https://cognitivewonderland.substack.com/s/videos