How We Know What Not To Think
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019. [All Versions]. Humans often represent and reason about unrealized possible actions---the vast infinity of things that were not (or have not yet been) chosen. This capacity is central to the most impressive of human abilities: causal…
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Imagination and the generation of new ideas sciencedirect.com
Cognitive Development, 2015. [All Versions]. A variety of theories have been put forth to explain the function of imagination, most notably that imagination engages and develops children's theory of mind and counterfactual reasoning. This work proposes that a primary role for…
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Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning link.springer.com
Springer, 2009. [All Versions]. Most philosophers of science in the twentieth century have concluded that no logic of creative processes exists and, moreover, that a rational model of discovery is impossible. In short, scientific creative inferences are irrational and there is…
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Understanding Human Intelligence through Human Limitations cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2020. [All Versions]. [Preprint]. Recent progress in artificial intelligence provides the opportunity to ask the question of what is unique about human intelligence, but with a new comparison class. The author argues that we can understand human…
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Why concepts are (probably) vectors cell.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024. [All Versions]. For decades, cognitive scientists have debated what kind of representation might characterize human concepts. Whatever the format of the representation, it must allow for the computation of varied properties, including…
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Goals, usefulness and abstraction in value-based choice sciencedirect.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023. [All Versions]. A review that outlines the computational and biological principles that enable the brain to compute the usefulness of an option or action by creating abstractions that flexibly adapt to changing goals.
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Cognitive engineering: Human problem solving with tools researchgate.net
Human Factors, 1988. [All Versions]. The original idea of investigating huamn tool use in problem solving.
AGI & CoCoSci › Papers > Abduction > Rationalization: “Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019. [All Versions]. Humans often represent and reason about unrealized possible actions---the vast infinity of things that were not (or have not yet been) chosen. This capacity is central to the most impressive of human abilities: causal…”