So much blood and ink has been spilt trying to bridge the gap between something called mind and something called world. The gap I seek to bridge is instead between something called experience and something called language. This we can do. And with that the game is won.
October 2011
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October 13, 2011
Redefining the explanatory gap
Posted by fcummins under Attention, Commerce, Communication, Consequences, Human Centered Perception, Human condition, Information, Language, Media/Pop, Memes, Narrative, Neuroscience, postcognitivism, Reality, Rworld, Seeing ourselves, Subjective Point of ViewLeave a Comment
October 6, 2011
For everything there must be a price . . .
Posted by fcummins under Commerce, Consequences, Human Centered PerceptionLeave a Comment
This is understood in economics. It validates the discipline.
But that entails the need to agree on what constitutes a measurement. Without measurement, no price. Measurement, in turn, always depends implicitly upon a model of the agent. Cognitivist models come in many flavors. But each of these has economic consequences; various models of rationality; various accounts of the Perception-Cognition-Action arc. The assumptions of each of these accounts are used to validate a host of measurements.
P-world and R-world 