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Record Nr.

UNINA9910409709403321

Autore

Mella Piero

Titolo

Constructing Reality : The "Operationalization" of Bateson’s Conjecture on Cognition  / / by Piero Mella

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-44132-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (115 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Cognition, , 2625-2929

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Cognitive psychology

Epistemology

Artificial intelligence

Psycholinguistics

Control engineering

Phenomenology 

Cognitive Psychology

Artificial Intelligence

Control and Systems Theory

Phenomenology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Bateson’s Model of the Mind and the Fundamental Conjecture on Cognition -- Chapter 2. Beginning the Operationalization Process. First Step: Descriptions. From Dimensions to Objects -- Chapter 3. Second Step: Definition. From Objects to Concepts -- Chapter 4. Communication. Signs and Languages. .

Sommario/riassunto

This brief presents an overview of Gregory Bateson’s Constructivist method of Cognition. Bateson proposes a theory of cognition that is based on the abstract notion of difference that the mind distinguishes and perceives and represents information that constitutes and separates how different states are ordered, grouped, and classified. Bateson, however, does not clearly indicate how a cognitive system can develop a knowledge of reality from the perception of these differences. This book seeks to offer a scientific approach to



Constructivism. Using Bateson’s hypothesis, chapters discuss how our mind distinguishes and elaborates differences, allowing us to form perceptions of objects, and how these objects can be described and compared. Chapters also discuss how from differences, it is possible to construct concepts or ideas of how these can be defined and how to derive from these differences the meanings of the signs used for the structuring of languages. The brief offers a coherent structure of propositions that form an interpretative theory of the modus operandi of the human mind, which will be useful not only in shedding light on our cognitive processes, but also in laying the formal groundwork for artificial intelligence. Constructing Reality is a must-have resource for researchers and students of the cognitive sciences, as well as education sciences, and researchers and scholars of artificial intelligence, learning theory, and intelligent automata programming.