psychology

Psychology studies behaviour and mental processes, including attention, memory, motivation and learning. Explanations can concern different levels: a reported experience, a behavioural pattern or a proposed underlying mechanism. Evidence at one level does not automatically establish the others.

Psychology studies behaviour and mental processes, including attention, memory, motivation and learning. Explanations can concern different levels: a reported experience, a behavioural pattern or a proposed underlying mechanism. Evidence at one level does not automatically establish the others.

The essay Working with AI is addictive uses personal experience to examine repeated tool use and reward. That is a starting point for questions about behaviour, rather than a measurement of a biological mechanism. Systems theory supplies a language for feedback without resolving those empirical questions.