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The Quest for Comprehension: The Psychology of Understanding in Humans, Computers, and Monkeys

The Quest for Comprehension: The Psychology of Understanding in Humans, Computers, and Monkeys. Rolf A. Zwaan. The Human Brain is Hungry for Meaning. Effort after Meaning. Effort after Meaning. Effort after Meaning. Effort after Meaning. Effort after Meaning. Effort after Meaning.

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The Quest for Comprehension: The Psychology of Understanding in Humans, Computers, and Monkeys

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  1. The Quest for Comprehension:The Psychology of Understanding in Humans, Computers, and Monkeys Rolf A. Zwaan

  2. The Human Brain is Hungry for Meaning

  3. Effort after Meaning

  4. Effort after Meaning

  5. Effort after Meaning

  6. Effort after Meaning

  7. Effort after Meaning

  8. Effort after Meaning

  9. Effort after Meaning

  10. Comprehension • Forming a coherent mental representation of a situation.

  11. Establishing Coherence • Situations can be conveyed via language.

  12. COURIC: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that? PALIN: Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada… COURIC: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians? PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our state.

  13. I am writing on paper. The pen which I am using is from a factory called ‘Perry & Co’. This factory is in England. I assume this. Behind the name of Perry Co. the city of London is inscribed; but not the city. The city of London is in England. I know this from my schooldays. Then, I always liked geography. My last teacher in that subject was Professor August A. He was a man with black eyes. I also like black eyes. There are also blue and gray eyes and other sorts, too. I have heard it said that snakes have green eyes. All people have eyes. There are some, too, who are blind.

  14. He grasped the banana.

  15. The car raced across the valley.

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  17. So • The brain is hungry for meaning, so it tries to comprehend. • It builds coherent mental representations of situations. • It uses the body to do so. • Embodied cognition is being implemented in curricula as we speak.

  18. The Quest for Comprehension • It would be interesting to explore these ideas to aid in the quest for comprehension in the variety of fields represented at this university.

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