Genetic AI: Translating Piaget into Lisp
This paper presents a constuctivist model of human cognitive development during infancy. According to constructivism, the elements of mental representation -- even such basic elements as the concept of physical object -- are constructed afresh by each individual, rather than being innately supp...
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| author | Drescher, Gary L. |
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| description | This paper presents a constuctivist model of human cognitive development during infancy. According to constructivism, the elements of mental representation -- even such basic elements as the concept of physical object -- are constructed afresh by each individual, rather than being innately supplied. Here I propose a (partially specified, not yet implemented) mechanism, the Schema Mechanism; this mechanism is intended to achieve a series of cognitive constructions characteristic of infants' sensorimotor-stage development, primarily as described by Piaget. In reference to Piaget's 'genetic epistemology', I call this approach genetic AI -- 'genetic' not in the sense of genes, but in the sense of genesis: development from the point of origin. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/64442019-04-12T08:30:47Z Genetic AI: Translating Piaget into Lisp Drescher, Gary L. This paper presents a constuctivist model of human cognitive development during infancy. According to constructivism, the elements of mental representation -- even such basic elements as the concept of physical object -- are constructed afresh by each individual, rather than being innately supplied. Here I propose a (partially specified, not yet implemented) mechanism, the Schema Mechanism; this mechanism is intended to achieve a series of cognitive constructions characteristic of infants' sensorimotor-stage development, primarily as described by Piaget. In reference to Piaget's 'genetic epistemology', I call this approach genetic AI -- 'genetic' not in the sense of genes, but in the sense of genesis: development from the point of origin. 2004-10-04T14:56:30Z 2004-10-04T14:56:30Z 1986-02-01 AIM-890 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6444 en_US AIM-890 2284074 bytes 1767812 bytes application/postscript application/pdf application/postscript application/pdf |
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| title | Genetic AI: Translating Piaget into Lisp |
| title_full | Genetic AI: Translating Piaget into Lisp |
| title_fullStr | Genetic AI: Translating Piaget into Lisp |
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| title_short | Genetic AI: Translating Piaget into Lisp |
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