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Record Nr.

UNINA9910424568803321

Autore

Arecchi Fortunato Tito

Titolo

Cognizione e realtĂ  / / Fortunato Tito Arecchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : , : Firenze University Press, , 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Studi e saggi ; ; 191

Disciplina

156

Soggetti

Psychology, Comparative

Evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Cognition implies perception and judgement. Perception consists in interpreting a sensory stimulus: it is a common process in every animal with a brain, and can be described as a Bayesian inference where the interpretive algorithm is stored in long-term memory. Judgement, on the other hand, is related to the comparison between two perceptions which are coded in a language, in that short-term memory presents the first perception once again and compares it with the second. This operation is called inverted Bayes’ theorem and while it does not presuppose an algorithm, it builds a new one using comparison. The book shows how the algorithmic leaps related to linguistic operations capture aspects of reality which cannot be reached through Bayesian chains of inference following the same algorithm.