Larry Barsalou - Habits of Mind
Mind & Life
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What Is a Concept?
A concept is aggregated information in memory about some kind of thing. Our brain naturally divides the world into categories, chairs, tables, birds, peates, apples. And a concept can be thought of as the knowledge that you've rude about one of those categories. So when you see another chair, your concept of her chair becomes bound to it. When we see a chair, we know exactly how it can be relevant for us. We're these things get confused, but generally, i think we're able to keep them straightthe and so these simulations,. they integrate a the sensory information from all the different senses, as well as language information that you've learned, and maybe other experience
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