Monday, April 10, 2006

【Article】超結合説 Radical Connectionism

【論文】オブライエン,ジェラルド・オピー,ジョン.2002.「超結合説:言葉で(なしで)考える」.『言語とコミュニケーション』.22巻3号.313-329頁

実験の類は全く含まれていない、高度に抽象化された仮説。この論文は人間の認知活動には抽象化された情報は関係していないという立場である。自然言語は認知活動に適していないと考えているようだ。自然言語がどれほど人間の思考を表象しうるか、というテーマは大変興味深い。久々に読み直したい。

【Article】O'Brien, Gerard and Opie, Jon. 2002. Radical connectionism: thinking with (not in) language. Language & Communication. Vol. 22 Issue 3. pp.313-329

This article doesn't involve experiences or anything like that. It is more about highly symbolized model about human capacity for language command and thoughts. This article takes the position that "cognition never implicates an internal symbolic medium, not even when natural language plays a part in our thought processes". The author thinks that natural languages are not representing human thoughts and as for cognitive activities, internalised language works better. The theme about how much natural language can represent human thoughts sounds very interesting to me. Hope to read this soon again.

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