CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Oboe, Face Perception, Thought Experiment

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Deirdre Kelly

Document Summary

Imagination and belief are represented in the same format. I imagine that . I believe that . Imagination and belief are processed in the same way. If the banana is a phone, then i can receive calls on it. Inference will be drawn regardless of whether input to inference system is a belief that the banana is a phone or an imagining that the banana is a phone. Diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)es: (cid:894)a(cid:895) pla(cid:455) diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al (cid:396)ole, (cid:894)b(cid:895) you ought to (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s t(cid:396)ue, (cid:271)ut it(cid:859)s (cid:374)ot the (cid:272)ase that (cid:455)ou ought to i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)e (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s t(cid:396)ue. By 18 months, many children show signs of tracking rather elaborate games of pretense initiated by others. By age 4 can engage in complex coordinated games of joint pretense. They can keep track of different pretense scenarios simultaneously. Metarepresentational views (leslie 1982): what is central to pretense is having the concept pretend.