Analogy as the core of cognition stanford presidential lectures. There are only a small number of eyetracking studies involving analogymaking in adults e. French our ability to see a particular object or situation in one context as being the same as another object or situation in another context is the essence of analogymaking. As mentioned, other analogymaking systems generally receive as input a set of. A selfwatching model of analogymaking and perception. Prolegomena to any future metacat1 douglas hofstadter an incipient model of fluidity, perception, creativity in her book analogymaking as perception, melanie mitchell has described with great precision and clarity the realization of a longstanding dream of mine a working computer program that captures what, to me, are many of the. Episode blending as result of analogical problem solving.
Drawing analogies in environmental education 83 thinking about totems risks disrespecting those who birthed the practices. Analogymaking as perception is based on the premise that analogymaking is fundamentally a highlevel perceptual process in which the interaction of. Metacat is a computer model of analogymaking and perception that builds on the foundations of an. One should not think of analogymaking as a special variety of reasoning as in the. Think of a river and the chances are perception has been there.
Restricted to current um faculty, staff, and students pdf file. A selfwatching model of analogymaking and perception james b. For the purposes of this chapter, we will concentrate on visual and auditory perception in part to keep our discussion manageable and in part because those two are the kinds of perception psychologists study most. A computer model of highlevel perception and conceptual. A computer model of highlevel perception and conceptual slippage in analogy making. Think of a design and the chances are perception influenced it. The computational modeling of analogymaking robert m. The psychologist william james observed that a native talent for perceiving analogies is. Analogymaking as perception is based on the premise that analogymaking is fundamentally a highlevel perceptual process in which the interaction of perception and concepts gives rise to conceptual slippages which allow analogies to be made. Analogy is a cognitive process of transferring information or meaning from a particular subject.
It describes copycat a computer model of analogymaking, developed by the author with douglas. In fact, i should stress that the upper echelons of highlevel perception totally. It encompasses our ability to explain new concepts in terms. In highlevel perception, humans make representations by selecting relevant information from lowlevel stimuli. I am tempted to avoid the word, to jump directly into interspecies relationships or interspecies pedagogy and the place of analogy making in these processes. Dream your ultimate experience and chances are weve lived it.
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