From owner-cse575-fa07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Nov 13 19:52:19 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id lAE0qJhq002753 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (upfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.4.140]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id lAE0qFuA035155 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:15 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 8691 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2007 00:52:10 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 14 Nov 2007 00:52:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 1665 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2007 00:52:07 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 14 Nov 2007 00:52:07 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 4568094 for CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:07 -0500 Delivered-To: cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 24487 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2007 00:52:07 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 14 Nov 2007 00:52:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 26006 invoked from network); 14 Nov 2007 00:52:06 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp5.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 14 Nov 2007 00:52:06 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id lAE0q6vT002742 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:06 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id lAE0q6qJ002741 for cse575-fa07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:06 -0500 (EST) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200711140052.lAE0q6qJ002741@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:52:06 -0500 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: Introduction to Cognitive Science From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: Paul Luce's Guest Lecture To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1335; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4728/Fri Nov 9 14:25:27 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 1523 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Paul Luce's Guest Lecture ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Some thoughts inspired by Paul Luce's talk today: 1. Luce mentioned a program called "Pandemonium". (The context was that a dense neighborhood of high-frequency words will all clamor to be understood by a hearer "just like in Pandemonium". Pandemonium was one of the earliest AI programs, devised by Oliver Selfridge. It was a pattern-detector (for visual perception) consisting of separate sub-programs, called "demons", each of which was specialized to detect a given feature. When one of them detected its feature, it would pass a message ("shriek") to the next demon up in the hierarchy.o See, e.g., http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/pandemonium.html 2. During Luce's presentation, I was considering how his work might be considered to be cognitive science (as opposed, say, to "mere" cognitive psychology). Here's how (and after his talk, he agreed with me): First, the emphasis on processes (rules) and representations places it squarely in the "cognitive" camp (as opposed to the behavioristic camp). Second, the fact that he has implemented his theory in a (connectionist) computer program makes it cognitive science. The only thing missing is interdisciplinarity, but the fact that he requires to be knowledgeable in linguistics in addition to psychology, and implements his theories computationally takes care of that.