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The Dictionary as Mirror of the Mind

The Dictionary as Mirror of the Mind. Stevan Harnad with collaborators : Alexandre Blondin-Massé Guillaume Chicoisne Yassine Gargouri Odile Marcotte Olivier Picard. What is cognition?. The activity of whatever mechanism generates performance capacity: human

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The Dictionary as Mirror of the Mind

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  1. The Dictionary as Mirror of the Mind Stevan Harnad with collaborators: Alexandre Blondin-Massé Guillaume Chicoisne Yassine Gargouri Odile Marcotte Olivier Picard

  2. What is cognition? The activity of whatever mechanism generates performance capacity: human (and human-like, animal, machine) know-how and "know-that"

  3. According to ‘Computationalism’: Cognition is just a form computation i.e., formal symbol manipulation

  4. The Symbol Grounding Problem The Chinese/Chinese dictionary-go-round

  5. Hence Cognition is not just computation Meaning is not just definition

  6. Dynamical systems and sensorimotor grounding

  7. Concepts: Formal vs. Mental (Neural)

  8. What are concepts? Categories and names of categories

  9. What are categories? To categorize is to do the right thing with the right kind of thing.

  10. A cognizer is an autonomous sensorimotor system that categorizes

  11. Miscategorization has consequences

  12. Categories are classes of objects, events, properties, actions, or states with invariant features some (all? most? many? enough?) of them sensorimotor features discernible by a categorizer allowing the categorizer to categorize correctly

  13. Categories have extensions and intensions

  14. setmembership/inclusion

  15. Vanishing intersections:Categories are not just sensorimotor either

  16. Category Acquisition Implicit and explicit learning

  17. Implicit vs Explicit Learning = + + + …

  18. Names and propositions

  19. “ ‘ZEBRA’ = HORSE + STRIPES ” = +

  20. applered appleapple (is) red

  21. setsmembership/inclusion

  22. Doing, naming, describing and defining Using a word and defining a word

  23. Definition and introspection Cognitive science is making the implicit explicit

  24. Our brains contain an implicit dictionary that enables us to name things and to use words and (sometimes) to define the words we use

  25. Category Learning and Categorical Perception

  26. Inborn and learned sensorimotor invariants

  27. Implicit vs Explicit Learning Cangelosi & Harnad 2002

  28. “ ‘ZEBRA’ = HORSE + STRIPES ” = +

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