Are There Dimensions in the Brain? Christian Balkenius Lund University Cognitive Science Kungshuset, Lundagård S-222 22 LUND, Sweden Abstract If individual cells do not code dimensions, is it still possible to find representations of dimensions in the brain? It is suggested that perceptual quality dimensions are represented in the brain as a distributed activity pattern at multiple scales. It is s

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chella.tex Conceptual Spaces for Computer Vision Representations A.Chella1,2, M.Frixione3 and S.Gaglio1,2 1Dip. di Ingegneria Automatica e Informatica - Univ. of Palermo, Italy 2CERE-CNR, Palermo, Italy 3Dip. di Scienze della Comunicazione - Univ. of Salerno, Italy Abstract A framework for high-level representations in computer vision ar- chitectures is described. The framework is based on the not

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Microsoft Word - AG PG50 1 HUR HOMOGENT ÄR ’DET MÄNSKLIGA TÄNKANDET’? M YCKET TEORIBILDNING inom kognitionsforskning handlar, på ett generellt plan, om ’det mänskliga intellektet’: om hur människan – i bestämd form – representerar olika typer av kunskap, lär sig, minns, löser problem, hanterar begrepp, etc. Det är relativt sällsynt med diskussioner om hur pass enhetligt ’det mänskliga intellektet’

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Microsoft Word - Gochet (final corrections) 1 Meaning in flux Abstract Professor Gärdenfors devoted an epoch making book to Knowledge in flux . This short paper surveys and streamlines recent developments in the dynamics of meaning . The semantics of epistemic possibility is shown to involve a dynamic ingredient. Update semantics has been designed to capture it. The paper contains a detailed exami

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G=rdenfors i Word.doc (Word5) WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE Sren Halldn 1. The certainty of a probability In business, in politics, and indeed in all fields of practical activity, uncertainty is present, and there is an interest in the values which are dependent upon uncertainty. Suppose that a major investment is under consideration, and that the possibility of a war in the Middle East has to be included in

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Microsoft Word - Hochberg.pdf 1 The Revival of Causal Realism From Husserl to the Present: Some Recent History and a Critical Commentary by Herbert Hochberg University of Texas Abstract: The paper considers the problems posed by the recent revival of causal realism in the 1970s by a number of philosophers--principally D. M. Armstrong's version. It points to basic flaws in the view and attempts to

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Microsoft Word - Persson/Sahlin A fundamental problem of causation (with no solution)i Among many other things, Peter Grdenfors has attempted to explore the nature of causal beliefs. The idea in Knowledge in Flux is that - by looking at the contraction with respect to the cause of the given epistemic state - we can apply the simple criterion that the occurrence of C raises the probability of the o

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Gardenforsfest.pdf ARE FULL BELIEFS AN ABSTRACTION FROM CREDAL STATES? ISAAC LEVI Columbia University March 13, 1999 1. States of Full Belief, Confirmational Commitments and Credal States An account of belief change appropriate to providing a systematic understanding of well conducted inquiry presupposes a characterization of changes of belief state that are open to the inquiring agent to make in

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Microsoft Word - Belief.handsatt.doc Ilkka Niiniluoto BELIEF REVISION AND TRUTHLIKENESS 1. Introduction In December 1977, a conference on ÓThe Logic and Epistemology of Scientific ChangeÓ was organized in Helsinki (see Niiniluoto and Tuomela, 1979). Employing tools from logic, set theory, and probability theory, the participants developed three different approaches to scientific change. One group

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Microsoft Word - OLSSON2.DOC 1 Recovering From Tennant's Attack on Recovery Erik J. Olsson1 I was introduced to the AGM theory of Peter Grdenfors and his associates, Carlos Alchourrn and David Makinson, via Sten Lindstrm, who gave a series of lectures at the philosophy department in Uppsala on Peter's book Knowledge in Flux shortly after it appeared. At the time I was still an undergraduate studen

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Microsoft Word - Spohn, for Peter Ranking Functions, AGM Style Wolfgang Spohn Fachgruppe Philosophie Universität Konstanz D - 78457 Konstanz Ranking functions, having their first appearance under the name „ordinale Konditionalfunktionen“ in my Habilitationsschrift submitted in 1983, had several precursors of which I was only incompletely aware, among them Shackle’s functions of potential surprise

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JZ.Rev2.dvi JZBR - Iterated Belief Change for Conditional Ranking Constraints An early report Emil Weydert Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science Im Stadtwald, D-66123 Saarbrucken, Germany emil@mpi-sb.mpg.de Abstract We present JZBR, an extension of Spohn's iterated revision methodology which allows the handling of new information expressed by conditional rank- ing measure constraints. This is

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Microsoft Word - williams.docx Aesthetics and the Explication of Surprise Mary-Anne Williams Information Systems, University of Newcastle, Australia maryanne@infosystems.newcastle.edu.au Abstract. Art is related to explanation, in fact according to Leyton [11] the aesthetic response is the mind’s evaluation of explanation, and furthermore the level of aesthetic response to works of art is proporti

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Microsoft Word - Stjernberg 1 NOT SO EPIPHENOMENAL QUALIA OR HOW MUCH OF A MYSTERY IS THE MIND? Fredrik Stjernberg Vxj University In recent philosophy of mind, physicalism - in one form or another - has been the dominant position. And this is no surprise. The obvious alternative, dualism, is still struggling to come to terms with a problem that was already presented to Descartes: If the material w

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The Value of Limited Altruism* by Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, and David Donaldson August 1998 revised December 1998 Charles Blackorby: University of British Columbia and GREQAM Walter Bossert: University of Nottingham David Donaldson: University of British Columbia * Research support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is gratefully acknowledged. The paper was

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Microsoft Word - Tannsjo.doc (mina −ndr.) 1 Morality and Personal Identity Torbjörn Tännsjö (Gothenburg University) 1. INTRODUCTION The problem of the nature of our personal identity may seem to belong exclusively to metaphysics. However, if one inspects the actual discussion about the notion of personal identity, one gets the impression that the problem does not only have a metaphysical aspect, b

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Peter Gärdenfors Peter Gärdenfors intervjuas av Peter Sylwan Peter Sylwan och Smilla ► Lyssna på intervjun Alternativt: kopiera länken nedan och klistra in den i webbläsaren: https://www.lucs.lu.se/fileadmin/user_upload/ project/lucs/LUCS-pub/LUCS- SE/prelude/intervju-peter-sylwan.mp4 ______________________________________________ Spinning Ideas, Electronic Essays Dedicated to Peter Gärdenfors on

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LUCS Minor 2, 1994. ISSN 1104–1609. ALL YOU NEVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE BERRY III ENVIRONMENT Christian Balkenius Lund University Cognitive Science Kungshuset, Lundagård S–223 50 LUND, Sweden E-mail: christian.balkenius@fil.lu.se ABSTRACT: BERRY III is a simulator for autonomous robots and artificial creatures. This report describes the various elements of the simulated environment and the impl

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