two humans a monkey and a robot are looking at a piece of cheese what is common to the representational processes in their visual systems 2 Answer The cheese of course mainstream Gwen ID: 643216
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Shimon Edelman’s Riddle of Representation
two humans, a monkey, and a robot
are looking at a piece of cheese
;
what is common
to
the representational
processes in
their visual systems? Slide2
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Answer:
The cheese, of courseSlide3
mainstream (Gwen/CogPO) view
[methodological solipsism (the brain we study could equally well be a brain in a vat)]forgets the cheeseSlide4
When neuroscientists see an elephant they see only the calcium phosphate chemistry of the tusk
“The mind is a black box”“Mental processes cannot be observed (except via advanced neuroimaging instruments)”Slide5
Where we agree
Knowledge of brain structure can and should inform our understanding of mental functionWe should not waste time on the mind-body problem Slide6
Where we disagree
Gwen:for science: “every mental process has to be a brain process”
Therefore the only way to study the mind is to study the brain
BS:
we should ensure that we use
all the data we can
to do good scienceSlide7
Communicating about emotions
Affect, feeling, emotion,
mood, passion, sentiment
Anger, astonishment, awe, bliss,
despair, disgust, embarrassment, fear, happiness, hate, joy, love, pride, regret,
resentment
, satisfaction, scorn, shame,
sympathy, terror
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Image credit:
notarivs
(
flickr
)Slide8
Gwen (CogPO) view
cripples our empirical work on mental functioning nearly all our data in social interaction, emotional experience, mental health, … literature …, DSM, will be dismissed as unscientific
enforcing reduction to mappings between sensory inputs and motor outputs would cripple scienceSlide9
Against Gwen view
mental representation is about a thing in external reality in virtue of mappings among sensory inputs‘some puzzling properties of Mind, such as "aboutness" and subjectivity, can
be understood here in a concrete context, by
considering how
the mind-brain responds to (maps or "represents")
the internal (visceral) and external environment.’Slide10
Pro Gwen view‘mental = neural’ gives a framework for comparative studies – animal models
because animal brains are very like human brainsSlide11
the mainstream viewwould also make cross-organism comparisons difficult, since the kinds of mappings from sensory inputs to external environments differ vastly between, say, spiders and humansSlide12
all of mental functioning controlled by two
bsasic processessensory input+ all the stuff in the middle; working memorycontrol of behavior (motor control, action)
no body, no objects
facial expression
controlled
by the brainSlide13
Cognitive Paradigm Ontology
Jessica“The mental function experimenters claim to be studying is not as important as the methods for studying it”Compare: doing biology is not as important as building the Ontology for Biomedical InvestigationsSlide14
Gwen’s paper:there
is no consensus on how to define mental phenomena within a biological context (other than use of "operational,“ that is, experiment-specific, definitions). The Mind-Body question is usually avoided
in standard textbooks on behavioral and biological psychology.