[ontolog-forum] Claim: "All people use the same brain signatures when ad

["Rich Cooper" <metasemantics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This particular article, also in MedicalExpress.com, claims that assertion in the subject line.  I don't believe they have the right comparands though, because on this list, we have argued over the meaning of nearly everything under the sun.  So we can't have exactly the same "signature"; it must just be similar within undescribed hedges that surround the concept's representation in the brain.  Here is the URL of that article:

 

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-06-scientists-gain-glimpse-concepts-brain.html#nRlv

 

The fact that they identify signatures is very interesting in itself.  It would have been useful if they were more specific about how they cluster signatures so that all objects "seem" to have the "same" signature, and neither word " seem" nor " same" is defined well in this article.  It would be useful to know just how variable the "signature"s are. 

 

Sincerely,

Rich Cooper,

Rich Cooper,

 

Chief Technology Officer,

MetaSemantics Corporation

MetaSemantics AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com

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From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich Cooper
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Subject: [ontolog-forum] People "know" things that don't exist

 

Here is a very interesting article in MedicalExpress.com that documents how "educated" people claim knowledge and expertise that doesn't even exist:

 

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-06-people-easily-facts-impossible.html

 

I wonder why this behavior appears so widely among the general population?  I also wonder if that seeps over into the ontology world.  Does such a thing as a "river" exist in all cases where rivers are postulated?  Clearly not - a long time ago, JFS mentioned rivers with no head waters, and rivers with no delta.  Is the very idea of a "concept" being overgeneralized by this mistaken confidence this article suggests we have. 

 

Sincerely,

Rich Cooper,

Rich Cooper,

 

Chief Technology Officer,

MetaSemantics Corporation

MetaSemantics AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com

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http://www.EnglishLogicKernel.com

 

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