Teleosemantics
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0199270279
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Teleosemantics seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate.
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Causal interactions, future plans. Let me mention a few other possibilities. Consider first social rank and hierarchy. We do not know the size of human groups 200,000 years ago, but they were likely to be relatively small and egalitarian foraging communities. Contrast these social worlds with the much larger and far more stratified social worlds that have come into existence: stratifications that are in many ways built into language. Second, consider quantitative information. The socio-cultural.
In a simple organism, but where the crucial environmental variable is not linked to anything the organism can perceive in a single causal chain, but instead is linked to something the organism can perceive by a common cause pattern. By responding to observable variable Z, the organism coordinates its dealings with Y, where Z and Y are (roughly) products of a common cause. Applying Millikan-style principles to determine the content of an inner state by which the organism guides its behavior, we.
(including kinds). Interacting with sources of correlation allows SINBAD networks to become dynamically isomorphic to the environment, making them useful for prediction (and direction). My eventual claim will be this: SINBAD networks (and thus the cortical network) are designed to produce isomorphs to regularity structures involving kinds (and other sources of correlation) specifically. The SINBAD design principles designate kinds as part of the proper template for the cortical model-building.
Correlation are interrelated both within and across levels (cats are related to fur and to mice, water is related to taps and salt, and grass is related to greenness and to suburbia), an extensive network develops, as a cell’s dendrites come to use other cells’ outputs in finding a function that allows them to match.⁷ A cell may start with a tenuous correlational seed,⁸ but this subtle sign of those correlations’ source is enough to put the cell on a path towards discovering the multitude of.
Frog will snap at anything that’s moving and suitably small and contrastive with its background (for short, at anything small, dark, and moving). At least as philosophers tell the ¹ As I am using the term, a mental representation need not be conscious, or part of a conscious mental state. ² I owe this nice example to Barry Loewer. 168 Karen Neander tale, in their natural habitat the small, dark, moving things are mostly flies that are nutritious for frogs. There has been debate about whether.