Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary
Harnad, Stevan (2005) Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary. In, Villaroya, Oscar and Valencia, Leonardo (eds.) The Social Brain. Biology of conflicts and cooperation. , .
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Description/Abstract
A speculative hypothesis about how to eliminate the "we/they" distinction by rearing children (during early critical years) in "aggregates in flux" instead of in kinship-based families: A category cannot be formed from positive examples only: one must be able to sample both what is and what is not in a category in order to recognise the category at all. The basis for the distinction is the features shared by the members (invariants), and absent from the non-members. In "aggregates in flux," the individual members would be constantly varying (and unrelated, genetically). The only invariant would be that they are all human.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Presented at: The Social Brain. Biology of conflicts and cooperation World Forum of Cultures: From Conflict to Cooperation. Proposals from the Cognitive Sciences. Barcelona. 17-20 July 2004. http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/banco_del_conocimiento/dialogos/ficha.cfm?idEvento=164 To appear in: Villaroya, O & Valencia, L. (Eds.) |
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| Keywords: | category learning, uncomplemented categories, early experience, socialization, critical period, ethnocentrism, we/they distinction |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Physical and Applied Science > Electronics and Computer Science > Web & Internet Science |
| Item ID: | 263614 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Mar 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 14:03 |
| Contributors: | Harnad, Stevan (Author) Villaroya, Oscar (Editor) Valencia, Leonardo (Editor) |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Additional Information: | Presented at: The Social Brain. Biology of conflicts and cooperation World Forum of Cultures: From Conflict to Cooperation. Proposals from the Cognitive Sciences. Barcelona. 17-20 July 2004. http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/banco_del_conocimiento/dialogos/ficha.cfm?idEvento=164 To appear in: Villaroya, O & Valencia, L. (Eds.) |
| Status: | Published |
| Further Information: | Google Scholar |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/263614 |
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