Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
Mental Imagery: In search of a theory
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Zenon W. Pylyshyn
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Mental Imagery: In search of a theory
Zenon W. Pylyshyn
Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
New Brunswick, New Jersey
ABSTRACT: It is generally accepted that there is something special
about reasoning that uses mental images. The question of how it is
special, however, has never been satisfactorily spelled out, despite over
thirty years of research in the post-behaviorist tradition. This article
considers some of the general motivation for the assumption that
entertaining mental images involves inspecting a picture-like object. It
sets out a distinction between phenomena attributable to the nature of
mind, to what is called the cognitive architecture, and ones that are
attributable to tacit knowledge used to simulate what would happen in a
visual situation. With this distinction in mind the paper then considers
in detail the widely held assumption that in some important sense images
are spatially displayed or are depictive, and that examining images uses
the same mechanisms that are deployed in visual perception. I argue that
the assumption of the spatial or depictive nature of images is only
explanatory if taken literally, as a claim about how images are physically
instantiated in the brain, and that the literal view fails for a number of
empirical reasons Ð e.g., because of the cognitive penetrability of the
phenomena cited in its favor. Similarly, while it is arguably the case
that imagery and vision involve some of the same mechanisms, this tells us
very little about the nature of mental imagery and does not support claims
about the pictorial nature of mental images. Finally I consider whether
recent neuroscience evidence clarifies the debate over the nature of
mental images. I claim that when such questions as whether images are
depictive or spatial are formulated more clearly, the evidence does not
provide support for the picture-theory over a symbol structure theory of
mental imagery. Even if all the empirical claims turned out to be true,
the view that many people take them to support, that mental images are
literally spatial, remain incompatible with what is known about how images
function in thought. We are then left with the provisional
counterintuitive conclusion that the available evidence does not support
rejection of what I call the "null hypothesis"; viz., that reasoning with
mental images involves the same form of representation and the same
processes as that of reasoning in general, except that the content or
subject matter of thoughts experienced as images includes information
about how things would look.
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Toiling on the concepts of toilers and thieves:
Rephrasing the concept of "symbol grounding"
Andras Lorincz
I would like to continue our previous debate that started with
the letter of Stevan Harnad during
"1999-2000 Student Skywriting CogSci-Szeged99"
(NOTE:
I do not have the list of those who took part in this debate,
neither the list of those who are interested in this debate.
Please, answer me directly and I can set a separate mailing
list up, depending on the number of people interested and, of
course, on the opinion of the managers of koglist.)
START OF QUOTATION FROM SH
"...In the Cangelosi/Parisi paper, the (predecessors of) (1) "toilers" and
(2) "thieves" were foragers who (1) learned which mushrooms were edible by
trial and error-correcting feedback or (2) learned which mushrooms
were edible by "hearsay" (overhearing the toilers say "edible": there
were plenty of mushrooms, so the toilers lost nothing by vocalizing).
In the competition, the "thief" strategy beat the "toiler" strategy, and
the proportion of thieves in the population grew.
But, as would have become evident if the simulation had continued for
several more generations, "theft" under these conditions is not an
"evolutionarily stable strategy." For once there were few or no toilers
left, no one would know what was edible. For toilers, the knowledge is
grounded in having learned the features of the edible mushrooms; so the
toilers can forage alone; for the thieves, the only "feature" of an
edible mushroom is the vocalization of the toilers: "edible". So when
there are no more toilers, the thieves cannot eat. ..."
END OF QUOTATION
Insted of continuing the arguments I was giving that time I will
try to rephrase those in a different manner. I would try to clarify the
direction of these arguments by providing a few propositions
first.
Proposition 1.
The concept of "thief" is misleading.
Proposition 2.
"Toiler" is a good concept. There are only toilers.
Proposition 3.
"Symbol grounding" is an ill-posed mixture of stealing and toiling.
It "says" that a symbol was stolen and that now this stolen symbol
is subject to toiling.
Proposition 4.
Separation of the two phases in "symbol grounding"
may be better formulated by separating the two phases of symbol grounding to
(A) "abduction" and to
(B) "validation of abduction"
which are both toilings and concern the interaction with the environment.
THE ARGUMENTS:
Argument1.
Consider the viewpoint that there is no external world but we are only dreaming.
Then there is no difference between toiling and stealing, both correspond to dreaming.
Argument2.
Consider three cases:
Case 1. You build an aeroplane
Case 2. You buy an aeroplane
Case 3. You steal an aeroplane
C1: You make lots of toilings, but you do steal, at least from mother nature
C2: Clearly, you do both. You "exchange money" (= you steal in legal ways)
lots of ideas from previous generations
C3: You do lots of toilings to make a plan. You make this plan public
(you provide a freeware and make your plan stealable) "in exchange" of the
aeroplane.
Regards,
Andras
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University
Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR
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5 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English, except all participants speak Hungarian)
K a t a l i n M a r t i n a s
Atomic Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest
Mathematics and Theoretical Economics
Some questions raised by the Post Autistic Economics Movement
In June, 2000 a small group of economics students of Ecole Normale
Superiore put on the web a petition protesting against economics'
"uncontrolled use of mathematics". This indulgence, it said, creates "a
true schizophrenia" because the mathematics has "become an end in
itself"
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ourselves to be generally dissatisfied with the teaching that we
receive.
This is so for the following reasons:
1. We wish to escape from imaginary worlds!
2. We oppose the uncontrolled use of mathematics!
3. We are for a pluralism of approaches in economics!
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We no longer want to have this autistic science imposed on us.
In the lecture the logical structure of theoretical (mathematical)
economics will be summarized, to pinpoint the causes of this present
schizophrenia.
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Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article
ALTRUISM AND SELFISHNESS
by
Howard Rachlin
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ALTRUISM AND SELFISHNESS
Howard Rachlin
Psychology Department
State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York, 11794-2500
KEYWORDS: addiction, altruism, commitment, cooperation, defection,
egoism, impulsiveness, patterning, prisoner¹s dilemma, reciprocation,
reinforcement, selfishness, self-control
ABSTRACT: Many situations in human life present choices between (a) narrowly
preferred particular alternatives and (b) narrowly less preferred (or aversive)
particular alternatives that nevertheless form part of highly preferred abstract
behavioral patterns. Such alternatives characterize problems of self-control. For
example, at any given moment, a person may accept alcoholic drinks yet also prefer
being sober to being drunk over the next few days. Other situations present
choices between (a) alternatives beneficial to an individual and (b) alternatives
that are less beneficial (or harmful) to the individual that would nevertheless be
beneficial if chosen by many individuals. Such alternatives characterize problems
of social cooperation; choices of the latter alternative are generally considered
to be altruistic. Altruism, like self-control, is a valuable temporally-extended
pattern of behavior. Like self-control, altruism may be learned and maintained over
an individual¹s lifetime. It needs no special inherited mechanism. Individual acts
of altruism, each of which may be of no benefit (or of possible harm) to the actor,
may nevertheless be beneficial when repeated over time. However, because each
selfish decision is individually preferred to each altruistic decision, people can
benefit from altruistic behavior only when they are committed to an altruistic
pattern of acts and refuse to make decisions on a case-by-case basis
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Rachlin/Referees/
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Különbözö témákban kivánjuk használni a két eszközt:
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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SEMINAR
(http://hps.elte.hu/seminar)
________________________________________________
Program, November
5 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English, except all participants speak Hungarian)
K a t a l i n M a r t i n a s
Atomic Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest
Mathematics and Theoretical Economics
Some questions raised by the Post Autistic Economics Movement
In June, 2000 a small group of economics students of Ecole Normale
Superiore put on the web a petition protesting against economics'
"uncontrolled use of mathematics". This indulgence, it said, creates "a
true schizophrenia" because the mathematics has "become an end in itself"
resulting in an "autistic science".
Since that time PAE became a worldwide movement, with the following
petition: We, economics students in the universities of ..., declare
ourselves to be generally dissatisfied with the teaching that we receive.
This is so for the following reasons:
1. We wish to escape from imaginary worlds!
2. We oppose the uncontrolled use of mathematics!
3. We are for a pluralism of approaches in economics!
4. Call to teachers: wake up before it is too late!
We no longer want to have this autistic science imposed on us.
In the lecture the logical structure of theoretical (mathematical)
economics will be summarized, to pinpoint the causes of this present
schizophrenia.
12 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: Hungarian)
P a n e l D i s c u s s i o n
Panelists:
Imre Kondor(1)(2)
Tamas Matolcsi(3)
Istvan Nemeti(4)
Laszlo Palla(5)
Miklos Redei(6)
Peter Van(7)
Moderator:
Laszlo E. Szabo(5)(6)
____________
(1) Raiffeisen Bank, Budapest
(2) Physics of Complex Systems, Eotvos University, Budapest
(3) Applied Analysis, Eotvos University, Budapest
(4) A. Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
(5) Theoretical Physics, Eotvos University, Budapest
(6) History and Philosophy of Science, Eotvos University, Budapest
(7) Chemical Physics, Technical University, Budapest
A fizika es a matematika viszonya
(Relation Between Physics and Mathematics)
"Ugy tunik, a Nagy epitomester matematikus volt", idezi Feynman Jeans
szavait, majd hozzateszi, "A fizikusok ... ha a termeszetrol akarnak
ismereteket szerezni, meltanyolni akarjak annak szepsegeit, akkor erteniuk
kell azt a nyelvet, amelyen hozzank szol."
Igaz-e, hogy a termeszet egy meghatarozott nyelven szol hozzank? Ha igen,
honnan tudjuk mi ezt a nyelvet? A termeszettol tanuljuk meg? Ha nem, ha a
matematikanak van egy belso, ontorvenyu fejlodese, ha a matematika az
emberi szellem termeke, akkor honnan az a parhuzam, hogy a termeszet
ugyanazt a nyelvet beszeli, mint amit mi, tole fuggetlenul, kitalalunk?
Egyaltalan, csupan nyelvrol van itt szo? A matematika szerepe a fizikaban
nem tobb, mint egy nyelv, amelyen a "termeszet szepseget" elmeseljuk?
Vagy a matematikai strukturak valahol melyen ott ulnek a fizikai
valosagban? Ha nem, akkor csak mi belevetitjuk, belelatjuk ezeket a
strukturakat a fizikai vilagba? Ha ez igy volna, belevetithetnenk egeszen
mas strukturakat is? s ha igen, ha a termeszet nem kontrollalja azokat a
strukturakat, amiket raaggatunk, akkor a matematikus barmit kitalalhat?
Mi ezeknek a matematikai strukturaknak az ontologiai statusza? Leteznek
ezek? Valahol vannak, az embertol, az emberi gondolkodastol, az emberiseg
tortenelmetol fuggetlenul? Az a matematikus dolga, hogy ezeket
"felfedezze", vagy az, hogy "megalkossa"? Van ertelme a SETI program
kereteben az "a2+b2=c2" formulat elkuldeni tavoli ertelmes lenyeknek? s a
Maxwell-egyenleteket?
Egyaltalan, erdekli a fizikust, mikozben a matematikat hasznalja, hogy
milyen valaszokat adunk a matematika alapjait erinto kerdesekre? Van
kulonbseg a fizikus szamara a platonista, az intuicionista vagy a
formalista allaspont kozott?
19 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: Hungarian)
P e t e r S z e g e d i
Department of History and Philosophy Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
A kvantummechanika stochasztikus interpretaciojanak tortenete
(The History of the Stochastic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics)
Mar Schrodinger felfedezte, hogy a rola elnevezett egyenlet formailag
hasonlo egyes stochasztikus folyamatokat leiro egyenletekhez, de
felfedezesevel nem kezdett semmi kulonoset. Elsokent Fenyes Imre vette
komolyan az analogiat, aki eloszor egy maig is joforman ismeretlen rovid
angol nyelvu kozlemenyben, majd egy hires nemet nyelvu cikkben dolgozta ki
elkepzeleseit. Az utobbi tanulmanyhoz mar interpretaciot is fuzott, amely
szerint a kvantummechanika nem kulonbozik lenyegesen a klasszikus fizika
stochasztikus jelensegkoretol, sajatossagai csupan a valoszinusegi
targyalasmod kovetkezmenyei. Fenyes szazad kozepi munkajat nehanyan
azonnal kovettek, de igazan nevezetesse csak Nelson valt a 60-as evek
kozepen, aki a kvantummechanikai jelensegeket tulajdonkeppen egy
"alacsonyabb szinten" levo Brown-mozgasnak tulajdonitotta. Idokozben az
elektrodinamikaban elkezdtek vizsgalni, hogy milyen kovetkezmenyekkel jar
bizonyos fizikai rendszerekre, ha hatarfeltetelul stochasztikus
elektrodinamikai eroket (tereket) teteleznek fel. Az igy kapott eredmenyek
konvergaltak a stochasztikus interpretacion munkalkodok eredmenyeivel.
Letrejott a stochasztikus elektrodinamika mint a kvantummechanika
lehetseges interpretacioja, sot alternativaja.
Az eloadas a torteneti leiras mellett megprobalja felvazolni az egyes
elmeletek alapjait, fo gondolatait, valamint ezek kovetkezmenyeit is.
26 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54
(Language: English)
R y s z a r d W o j c i c k i
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academe of Sciences, Warsaw
MULTI-REFERENTIAL SEMANTICS
The talk is related to some results I have presented in my book on
consequence operation published by Kluwer. We expect consequence operation
to preserve truth. Now the idea of truth might be in a sense
"multidimentional". Depending on a reference point one might view the same
sentence as either true of false.
I shall focus on informal (philosophical) questions rather than formal
ones.
The organizer of the seminar: L�szl� E. Szab�
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Laszlo E. Szabo
Department of Theoretical Physics
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Eotvos University, Budapest
H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32, Hungary
Phone/Fax: (36-1)372-2924
Home: (36-1) 200-7318
Mobil/SMS: (36) 20-366-1172
http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo
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