Epstein Secrets

of abstraction. The prominence of visual and other sensory metaphors in abstract cognition is well known lArn69, Gar00]; and according to Lakoff and Nunez 1LN001 even pure mathematics is grounded in physical perception and action in very concrete ways. We begin by discussing the perception and action

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ees in some precivilized cultures. But in other cases this kind of analogy leads to robust sorts of reasoning - for instance, in reading Lakoff and Nunez's ILN00] intriguing explorations of the cognitive foundations of mathematics, it is pretty easy to see that most of the metaphors on which they hypo

pproach all the different kinds of memory are linked together in a single meta-representation, a sort of combined semantic/neural network called the AtomSpace. It represents everything from perceptions and actions to abstract relationships and concepts and even a system's model of itself and others. When

sees in some precivilized cultures. But in other cases this kind of analogy leads to robust sorts of reasoning - for instance, in reading Lakoff and Nunez’s [LN00] intriguing explorations of the cognitive foundations of mathematics, it is pretty easy to see that most of the metaphors on which they hypot

approach all the different kinds of memory are linked together in a single meta-representation, a sort of combined semantic/neural network called the AtomSpace. It represents everything from perceptions and actions to abstract relationships and concepts and even a system’s model of itself and others. When sp