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SUMMARY:Nick Chater - The Mind is Flat: Thought as Case-Law Not Naïve Science
DESCRIPTION:William and June Warren Hall (Room 416)\n1125 Amsterdam Avenue\, New York \nSpeaker: Dr. Nick Chater\, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School \nThe cognitive sciences often view thought as operating through tacit ‘theories\,’ analogous to those of science. Such theories are organized sets of principles\, which might be expressed in networks of beliefs\, utilities\, grammatical rules\, moral norms\, and more. But does a set of hidden\, but general\, theoretical principles really underpin thought and behavior? Finding such general principles has been a key goal in many areas of psychology\, philosophy\, linguistics and artificial intelligence. But our attempts to extract and formalize such principles lead continually rapidly into contradiction. \nDr. Chater argues that such principles—and mental “depths” in general—are illusory. Instead\, the brain generalizes flexibly from specific local problem; and gradually creates a tradition of ‘precedents’ for dealing with new problems. Thus\, the mind is analogous to case-law—in which each new case is addressed by finding links with past cases—rather than to science—in which new situations are dealt with by referring to hidden general rules. \nFree and open to the public\, but please RSVP via the event webpage. \nThis talk is sponsored by the Program for Economic Research and the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School.
URL:https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/scisoc/cssevent/nick-chater-mind-flat/
LOCATION:William and June Warren Hall\, 1125 Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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