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When computer wasn't invented, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box. You could analyze a subject's behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thoughts, memories, emotions? That stuff was obscure and inscrutable, beyond the reach of science. So these behaviorists, as they called themselves, confined their work to the study of stimulus and response, feedback and reinforcement, bells and saliva. They gave up trying to understand the inner workings of the mind. They ruled their field for four decades. Then, in the mid-1950s, a group of rebellious psychologists, linguists, information theorists, and early artificial-intelligence researchers came up with a different conception of the mind. People, they argued, were not just collections of conditioned responses. They absorbed information, processed it, and then acted upon it. They had systems for writing, storing, and recalling memories. They operated via a logical, formal syntax. The brain wasn&

DATA SECURITY in India.

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I don't know whether or not you have come across the term "DATA-SECURITY" , but I bet you either you know or not, you generally think that "what is in my data that other companies may use?" . In the same time, European countries got very strict rule for the 'personal data capturing' and use of it by other companies. You may heard of the case of Facebook LLC . Facebook got accused for sharing personal data of individuals to a third party that use and manipulate data for the use of election purpose. Same thing happens here in India a while back, when Vice President of a reputed money transfer app get caught red handed on a Sting Operation done by an Independent media group called CobraPost. The app was accused for sharing the data of its users to benefit a particular political party in India. Many people in India, gives positive response for that Sting Operation, and requested the app to delete their account. But majority of them (including