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WEBSCIENCE AND THE

MINDStevan Harnad

Canada Research Chair in Cognitive SciencesUniversité du Québec à Montréal

&Professor of Web Science

University of Southampton

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Glossogony Googleor

Communication Cognitive Commons

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Doing the right thing with the right KIND of thing

Cognition is Categorization

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Words are names of categories

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Categorical Perception (CP)

Members of the same category look more alike

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Learned Categorical Perception (CP)

Pevtzow, R. & Harnad, S.

(1997)

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Hearsay: A New Way To Acquire Categories

Cangelosi & Harnad 2002

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The birth of the Category Commons

“TOADSTOOL” = “MUSHROOM” + “STRIPES”

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Acquiring categories by theft (instruction) vs toil (induction):Category theft is a victimless crime

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Chinese-Chinese Dictionary& the symbol grounding problem

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Nets in our heads: The mental lexicon

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Some words are not used in any definition.

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They can be removed

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This process is recursive.

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Till no other word can be removed

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Resulting subgraph is “Grounding Kernel” (GK) of dictionary

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Summary for compressed real dictionary

1500 words+

Boole

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Four Cognitive Revolutions:Speed

Speaking (fast)

Handwriting (slow)

Print (slow)

Skywriting (fast)

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Revolution #1: 300,000 Years ago:

The Evolution of Language

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Revolution #2: 6000 years ago The Invention of Handwriting

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Revolution #3: 600 years ago: The Invention of Print

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Revolution #4: 40 yrs ago: The Invention of Internet

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20 years ago: The invention of the Web

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Email and Electronic Discussion Lists

Written discourse again accelerated to the speed of

thought

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Cognitive Interaction at the Speed of Thought

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Collaboration and Interactive Cognition

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“Live” Dialogue with Dead Text

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Our Cognitive Commons

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What is Cognition?

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The Turing Test

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Distributed Cognition?

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Distributed Cognition?

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Distributed Cognition?

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Distributed Cognition?

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Distributed Cognition?

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Distributed Cognition?

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Extended Mind?

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Mind Extenders (sensory)?

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Mind Extenders (motor)?

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Mind Extenders (sensorimotor)?

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Mind Extenders (cognitive)?

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Mind Extenders?

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The “hard problem” of consciousness:

Doing vs. Feeling

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Distributed Migraine?

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Distributed Migraine?

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Extended brain

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Jorge Armony Bernard Baars Mark Balaguer Simon Baron-Cohen Roy Baumeister Bjorn Brembs John Campbell Erik Cook Fernando Cervero Paul Cisek Axel Cleermans

Gary Comstock Antonio Damasio Dan Dennett Gregory Dudek Jeffrey Ebert David Edelman Shimon Edelman Barbara Finlay Dario Floreano Stan Franklin David Freedman Michael Graziano Patrick Haggard Stevan Harnad Inman Harvey Eva Jablonka Phillip Jackson David Jacobs Hakwan Lau Joseph Ledoux Malcolm MacIver Stefano Mancuso Julio Martinez Jennifer Mather Alfred Mele Bjorn Merker Thomas Metzinger Ezequiel Morsella Karim Nader Gualtiero Piccinini Christopher Pack Luiz Pessoa Gilles Plourde Alain Ptito

Amir Raz David Rosenthal Anil Seth John Searle Michael Shadlen Amir Shmuel Wolf Singer Wayne Sossin Catherine Tallon-Baudry

http://turingc.blogspot.ca

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Web Science & the mindMontreal, July 7-18 2014

Borner, Katy graphic webs of science Dedeo, Simon collective dynamics on Wikipedia Dorogovtsev, Sergey network evolution Dror, Itiel cognitive technology and distributed cognition: the risks Gingras, Yves scientific interaction before and since the Web Gloor, Peter collaborative networks Golbeck, Jennfer social web Goldstone, Rob internet-enabled imitation and exploration in social networks Gordon, Deborah collective behaviour -- beginning of the conference Griffin, Stephen web-based interactive scholarship Hall, Wendy web science Halpin, Harry web semantics Han, Jiawey knowledge mining Hendler, Jim data webHey, Tony science web Heylighen, Francis global brain & distributed intelligence Kousha, Kaivan webmetricsLiu, Yang-Yu network control Menary, Richard extended mind Monnin, Alexandre web philosophyNeylon, Cameron open science data-mining Nishikawa, Takashi community structure (& Motter, A) Radicchi, Filippo network communities Rupert, Rob extended mind philo Simon, Judith socio-technical epistemology Steyvers, Mark crowdsourcing & wisdom of crowds Stibel, Jeff web & brain Tetlow, Phil web life Todd, Peter memory search, external foraging, and web search

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