Symbolic Systems (?)

About a month ago, after much frantic deliberation and confusion, I declared a major. I'm in love with it as a concept (and so far, in actuality), although there is one small problem: I'm going to have to spend the rest of my life explaining what it actually is.

Symbolic Systems is something that Stanford essentially made up. Some high-ups saw an exciting void between the fields of psychology, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy and decided to stick a program there. In the SymSys program, you end up with a Bachelor of Science and can choose between a number of neat sounding concentrations. The goal is that at the end of your undergraduate career, you will have learned about the mind, consciousness, intelligence, patterns, and meaning (in short, "symbolic systems") from all sorts of academic angles. The plethora of approaches is what gives this understanding strength.

I'm concentrating in what they call Philosophical Foundations, which is basically a philosophy degree focused on philosophy of mind and logic plus classes from the other three fields mentioned above. Woo philosophy!

It's basically super exciting. No clue what I'll do with a degree like that in the real world, but hey, one step at a time.

Goodbye Bio :)