By Dan Sperber
This quantity within the Vancouver reviews in Cognitive technological know-how sequence issues metarepresentation: the development and use of representations that characterize different representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous between humans, at any time when we expect or discuss psychological states or linguistic acts, or theorize concerning the brain or language. This quantity collects formerly unpublished experiences at the topic by way of an interdisciplinary workforce of participants, together with Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
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Dan Sperber has suggested a natural ramp up which learning of this sort could proceed, beginning with what might be call impromptu observation of another (by an animal that has rich metapyschological powers to begin with), and leading by gradual steps to directed teaching, all without benefit of language. I wonder if this can be successfully modeled in a computer simulation - a nice new toy problem for artificial life. References Baron-Cohen, Simon (1995). Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind.
Dennett But we must not loose sight of the obvious fact that the puppies cannot literally (floridly) ask themselves these questions, lacking language. It is far from clear, in fact, that the mother, also lacking language, can even frame for herself the project of teaching anything so specific to her young. Her project, we may suppose, is to replicate in her young the disposition vis-a-vis orange toads that she acquired from her mother, but we must not impose our language-borne distinctions on the characterization of that disposition.
I think that there are examples of each of these types of cognitive system (see Table 3), despite the fact that the bulk of cognitive science has been conceived of as involving only narrow cognitive systems. In the remainder of this chapter, I shall indicate how the distinctions summarized in Tables 2 and 3 illuminate contemporary work with a metarepresentational edge. Central to these illustrations is the idea that we should locate some of the psychological capacities typically identified as "purely internal" (in Table 2) and as "narrow" (in Table 3) elsewhere in the respective tables.