Cognition is categorization
Harnad, Stevan (2005) Cognition is categorization. In, Lefebvre, Claire and Cohen, Henri (eds.) Handbook of Categorization. Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorisation , Elsevier.
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Description/Abstract
We organisms are sensorimotor systems. The things in the world come in contact with our sensory surfaces, and we interact with them based on what that sensorimotor contact “affords”. All of our categories consist in ways we behave differently toward different kinds of things -- things we do or don’t eat, mate-with, or flee-from, or the things that we describe, through our language, as prime numbers, affordances, absolute discriminables, or truths. That is all that cognition is for, and about.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | UQaM Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorization. 30 June - 11 July 2003 http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html Event Dates: 30 June - 11 July 2003 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | categorization, cognition, learning, language, sensorimotor systems, invariance, abstraction, evolution |
| Related URLs: | http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ha...atconf.doc |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| ePrint ID: | 260362 |
| Deposited On: | 24 Jan 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 14:04 |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
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