2008-01-17

Herbert Simon @ CMU - has been working since the 1950s in modeling human thinking on a computer, for ai.

The aborigenees have a category for "women, fire, and all dangerous things."

These people really believe that 'concepts' are stored in the brain as categories. However, this is not true, because there are many ideas that people have that are not interpreted into hierarchies and classifications. This means that the brain is doing something that is not like the 'concept' concept.

University of Oregon - brain imaging techniques (PET scans) for cognitive tasks (reading) -- Michael Posner

University of Pittsburgh - Learning and Development Center. LRDC. Robert Glaser.

Fallacies of human intuition -- see the website I sent to Yudkowsky on 2007-12-27.