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To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization

Harnad, S. (2005) To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization. In: Handbook of Categorization, Elsevier.

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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.

Creators:Stevan Harnad
Editors:Claire Lefebvre, Henri Cohen
Item Type:Book Section
Keywords:categorization, cognition, learning, language, sensorimotor systems, invariance, abstraction, evolution
Additional Information:UQaM Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorization. 30 June - 11 July 2003 http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html
Research Group:Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Deposited On:26 Dec 2005 by Harnad, Stevan
Alternative Locations:http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/catconf.do...
ID Code:11725
Last Modified:07 Jan 2010 00:42
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