Philip,
You and I have chatted a bit about the role of simulation in cognition, in
the past. I recently had a dialogue on this topic with a colleague (Debbie
Duong), which I think was somewhat clarifying. Attached is a message I
recently sent to her on the topic.
-- ben
Debbie,
Let's
Hi Ben,
What you said to Debbie Duong sound intuitively right to me. I think
that most human intuition would be inferential rather than a simulation.
but it seems that higher primates store a huge amount of data on the
members of their clan - so my guess is that we do a lot of simulating of
What you said to Debbie Duong sound intuitively right to me. I think
that most human intuition would be inferential rather than a simulation.
but it seems that higher primates store a huge amount of data on the
members of their clan - so my guess is that we do a lot of simulating of
the
Hi Ben,
Maybe we do simulate a *bit* more with out groups than I first thought -
but we do it using caricature stereotypes based on *ungrounded* data -
ie. we refuse to use grounded data (from our ingroup), perhaps, since
that would make these outgroup people uncomfortably too much like
us.
