On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to illustrate further, here's the opening lines of today's Times > sports report on a football match.[Liverpool v Chelsea] How on earth could > this be understood without massive imaginative simulation? [Stephen?] And > without mainly imaginative memories of football matches? >
I agree that some kind of simulation is necessary, probably something equivalent on high level to a 3D vector sketch of the events developing in time, containing actors, where necessary structural schemes of their bodies interacting with structure of the scene, etc. This simulation can unfold in absence of direct experience. Experience was only necessary to set up the simulating structures in the mind, so that when you read the passage, it is possible to run the simulation. One rather natural way to obtain this experience is through visual perception and the like. But other ways of setting up necessary structures should be possible, including textual. It may be very inefficient in some sense, but limitations of technology may require it. You only need to gradually build up necessary conceptual structures, and fix the errors in attempted simulations, from simplest structures and scenes to more and more elaborated ones. In the end, most of the concepts that work during text understanding will have nothing to do with that text, but initially many of such concepts could've been taught through textual input, and many more are combinations and classes of those concepts. -- Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=101455710-f059c4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
