[IxDA Discuss] Affordances (was Re: iPhone Keynote)

[Esteban Barahona]

do you have the study available online (ie: a pdf with a Creative Commons
license...)?

Marvin Minsky (eff.org<http://www.eff.org/cgi/search-proxy.py?q=Marvin+Minsky&sa=Search+EFF>
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thought of meaning as circular... and incorrect in a (classic)
logical way.

2007/1/16, Alan Wexelblat <awexelblat at gmail.com>:
>
> On 1/16/07, pauric <radiorental at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mark Said "In short, the brain stores and reassembles images, not
> words."
> >
> > I'm not sure this is strictly true
>
> It's almost certainly both true and false, at least insofar as we can
> tell from communication errors people make.  The research I'm familiar
> with is a couple decades old but should still be relevant.  In
> observing so-called speech production errors (people say the wrong
> word) you can find a class of people who produce words that are
> lexically similar to the intended word.  Most often these are words
> that start with the same phoneme as the intended word.  We can infer
> from this that the intended word is sufficiently "close" (for some
> arbitrary meaning of close) to the intended word that it got retrieved
> instead, despite their imagistic dissimilarity.
>
> So for example I might say "Jack" when I mean "Jason" even though the
> two men look very little alike.
>
> On the other hand, it's quite rare for speakers to say "Jane" instead
> of "Jason" even though the words share some phonemic similarity -
> actually more phonemic similarity than "Jack".. Again making wild
> guesses at what this tells us about the brain we assume that there is
> something about the very different concepts to which "Jason" and
> "Jane" refer that cause us not to make that kind of error.
>
> Once you move out of the category of basic nouns the story gets even
> less intelligible.  Nobody has been able to provide a satisfactory
> theory of how the brain stores an abstract concept like "honesty" or
> "advanced" that would be very hard to render imagistically.
>
> Best,
> --Alan
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