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| Learning: learning is acquiring the ability to establish relationships between signs, symptoms or symbols and objects. This also includes e.g. recognition and recollection of patterns, similarities, sensory perceptions, self-perception, etc. In the ideal case, the ability to apply generalizations to future cases is acquired while learning. See also knowledge, knowledge-how, competence._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Seymour Papert on Learning - Dictionary of Arguments
Minsky I 102 Learning/Papert/Minsky: Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative ways to use what one already knows. [Context: e.g. the problem of how small children judge quantities, as shown by Piaget: Four- and five-year-old children believe that when water is poured from a short wide glass into a tall thin glass that there is more water in the latter.(1)] Solution/Artificial Intelligence/software agents/Minsky: [we use] middle-level managers (...) [to] form a new, intermediate layer that groups together certain sets of lower-level skills. Papert/Minsky: Papert's principle suggests that the processes which assemble agents into groups must somehow exploit relationships among the skills of those agents. Cf. >Software agents, >Knowledge, >Prior knowledge, >Ordering, >Neural networks, >Artificial neural networks. 1. David Klahr, ”Revisiting Piaget. A Perspective from Studies of Children’s Problem-solving Abilities”, in: Alan M. Slater and Paul C. Quinn (eds.) 2012. Developmental Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies. London: Sage Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Papert, Seymour Minsky I Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind New York 1985 Minsky II Marvin Minsky Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19