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ISKO July 16 2012

To cognize is to categorize: from the ‘blooming, buzzing confusion’ to the ‘cognitive commons ’. Stevan Harnad Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science Université du Québec à Montréal & Professor of Web Science University of Southampton. ISKO July 16 2012.

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ISKO July 16 2012

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  1. To cognize is to categorize: from the ‘blooming, buzzing confusion’ to the ‘cognitive commons’ Stevan Harnad Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science Université du Québec à Montréal & Professor of Web Science University of Southampton ISKO July 16 2012

  2. From Glossogony to GoogleorFrom Communication to the Cognitive Commons ISKO July 16 2012

  3. What is Categorization? Doing the right thing with the right KIND of thing ISKO July 16 2012

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  5. Categorical Perception (CP) ISKO July 16 2012

  6. Texture category learning: ERP Studies ISKO July 16 2012

  7. Learned Categorical Perception (CP) Pevtzow, R. & Harnad, S. (1997) ISKO July 16 2012

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  9. Prior neural net studies Tijsseling & Harnad (1997) ISKO July 16 2012

  10. Hearsay: A New Way To Acquire Categories Cangelosi & Harnad (2002) ISKO July 16 2012

  11. Acquiring categories by theft (instruction) vs toil (instruction):The birth of the Category Commons “TOADSTOOL” = “MUSHROOM” + “STRIPES” ISKO July 16 2012

  12. Acquiring categories by theft (instruction) vs toil (instruction):Category theft is a victimless crime ISKO July 16 2012

  13. Chinese-Chinese Dictionary& the symbol grounding problem ISKO July 16 2012

  14. Nets in our heads: The mental lexicon ISKO July 16 2012

  15. Toy dictionary represented as graph ISKO July 16 2012

  16. Some words are not used in any definition. ISKO July 16 2012

  17. They can be removed ISKO July 16 2012

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  19. This process is recursive. ISKO July 16 2012

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  21. Till no other word can be removed ISKO July 16 2012

  22. Resulting subgraph is “Grounding Kernel” (GK) of dictionary ISKO July 16 2012

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  24. Summary for compressed real dictionary 500 words + Boole ISKO July 16 2012

  25. Our Cognitive Commons ISKO July 16 2012

  26. Our Category Commons ISKO July 16 2012

  27. Thank You ISKO July 16 2012

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