Re: Human language acquisition

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 17:15:03 GMT, Michael Olea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
in sci.cognitive wrote:

>in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lester Zick at
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/1/03 8:15 AM:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:03:09 -0500, Joe Legris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> in sci.cognitive wrote:
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>>> Glen M. Sizemore wrote:
>> 
>> [. . .]
>> 
>>> It is true that the existence of
>>>> such behavior in many cases is inferred, but then all of "cognition" is
>>>> inferred.
>>>> 
>>> 
>> A technical question not intended to be pejorative:
>> 
>> Is inference itself not a part of cognition in the sense of cognitive
>> behavior? It certainly wouldn't seem to be perceptual.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards - Lester
>> 
>
>"There are, of course, reasons why a fluid flows slowly, and a molecular
>explanation of viscosity is a step forward. There are physiological reasons
>why a person behaves in a manner we call cautious; and the physiologist
>will, we assume, eventually tell us what they are".
>
>I'm not so much ducking your question, Lester, as budgeting my time, but
>consider the following title: "Perception as Bayesian Inference", Knill, D.
>C. & Richards, W. (Eds.), Cambridge University Press (1996). And now
>consider again the "Necker Cube", a line drawing consistent with an infinite
>number of polyhedra out of which human observers usualy report only two, and
>only one at a time, the two interpretations alternating if the drawing is
>viewed long enough. Visual space perception is inference.
>
Sure. But then the question for Glen is whether inferred "cognition"
represents a perceptual process or not and if not whether inference
represents a cognitively inferred aspect of cognitive behavior (if
that makes any sense). But I agree with you that visual space
perception is inference. And I appreciate time constraints. I just
think the term inference would have to refer to cognitive inference in
cognitive contexts. 


Regards - Lester