pattern recognition ...
"One of the central insights of [Artificial Intelligence studies] is that pattern recognition is essential for the development of the human mind."
"The great stumbling block for AI, however, was to explain the origins of these pattern recognition skills."
"The solution [per modern evolutionary psychology] is that they must have been naturally selected at the 'genetic dawn' of our species."
{There is that Scholastic/Platonic-Chomskyesque impulse of which i often warn. The evolutionary sciences are full of it. -tfts}
"In the critical forth stage of the functional/emotional development infants begin to engage in long chains of co-regulated affective interactions, which enable them to recognize the various patterns involved in satisfying their emotional needs."
- All quotes except mine from Greenspan and Shanker's "The First Idea"
"The great stumbling block for AI, however, was to explain the origins of these pattern recognition skills."
"The solution [per modern evolutionary psychology] is that they must have been naturally selected at the 'genetic dawn' of our species."
{There is that Scholastic/Platonic-Chomskyesque impulse of which i often warn. The evolutionary sciences are full of it. -tfts}
"In the critical forth stage of the functional/emotional development infants begin to engage in long chains of co-regulated affective interactions, which enable them to recognize the various patterns involved in satisfying their emotional needs."
- All quotes except mine from Greenspan and Shanker's "The First Idea"
posted by Thomas F. Schminke at 12:21 AM
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What is the relationship between pattern recognition and Gestalt recognition?
Gestalt Theory, as i understand it, has as one of its components "pattern recognition". Gestalt Theory is more interested in how we (humans) recognize patterns, where AI is more generally interested in how any device might thusly recognize patterns.
The book I am quoting is more interested in the question of how humans acquired the skill of recognizing patterns (and other Gestalt Theory tendencies ... such as closing/completing patterns) ... specifically, the claim is that it is not all hardwired.
The authors of the book would probably also want to note that for the assembled image or symbol to be meaningful it must also have emotional content in its conotation. The image they would evoke is of a person who could read a story, know what everything is and analyse the story intellectually, but lacking emotional content, would be unable to explain the actions of any characters based on that knowledge.
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