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Grounded in perceptions yet transformed into amodal symbols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Liane Gabora
Affiliation:
Center Leo Apostel, Brussels Free University, 1160 Brussels, [email protected] www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane

Abstract

Amodality is not incompatible with being originally derived from sensory experience. The transformation of perceptual symbols into amodal abstractions could take place spontaneously through self-organizing processes such as autocatalysis. The organizational role played by “simulators” happens implicitly in a neural network, and quite possibly, in the brain as well.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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