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Cognizione e realtà / Fortunato Tito Arecchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arecchi, Fortunato Tito, author.
- Series:
- Studi e saggi ; 191.
- Studi e saggi ; 191
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychology, Comparative.
- Evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2018
- Language Note:
- In Italian.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version:
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