To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization
To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization
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.
categorization, cognition, learning, language, sensorimotor systems, invariance, abstraction, evolution
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
December 2005
Harnad, Stevan
442ee520-71a1-4283-8e01-106693487d8b
Harnad, Stevan
(2005)
To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization.
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Lefebvre, Claire and Cohen, Henri
(eds.)
Handbook of Categorization.
Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorisation (30/06/03 - 11/07/03)
Elsevier.
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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.
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Published date: December 2005
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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
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Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorisation, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, 2003-06-30 - 2003-07-11
Keywords:
categorization, cognition, learning, language, sensorimotor systems, invariance, abstraction, evolution
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 261725
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/261725
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Date deposited: 26 Dec 2005
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Author:
Stevan Harnad
Editor:
Claire Lefebvre
Editor:
Henri Cohen
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