M
J. Miro
Mind — Editor
The byline behind our essays on cognition. Miro writes slowly because cognition deserves to be described slowly.
The Mind edition is about the moments when consciousness catches itself in the act — déjà vu, the placebo response, the Dunning-Kruger curve, false memory, the gap between certainty and competence. The interior weather most people experience but rarely read about with any precision.
Miro's editorial bias is against the "one weird trick" framing. Cognitive science is usually subtler than its viral summary. Déjà vu is not a glitch — it might be the brain working correctly. The Dunning-Kruger graph everyone shares is not actually in the original paper. The placebo effect is getting stronger over time, which is not what anyone predicted. Each essay traces how the misunderstanding became the conventional wisdom.
Background in cognitive science, more questions than answers, allergic to oversimplification.