Dr. John Vervaeke Ep. 29 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Getting to the Depths of Relevance Realization
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Apr 3, 2023 The podcast delves into relevance realization, discussing its connections to intelligence, consciousness, and meaning. It explores the deep concept of relevance beyond categorical understanding and emphasizes the importance of cognitive commitment for rational decision-making. The discussion also touches on the limits of rule-based explanations in cognition, the role of kindness in moral interpretations, and the intricate connection between relevance realization and internal goals in living systems.
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Relevance in Problem Solving
- Problem-solving requires navigating a vast search space, as described by Newell and Simon.
- Effective problem formulation, or framing, helps us pinpoint relevant information, thus avoiding combinatorial explosion.
Relevance in Categorization
- Categorization relies on judgments of similarity, which can be misleading.
- True categorization depends on comparing relevant features, highlighting the importance of relevance in cognition.
Relevance in Communication
- Communication necessitates conveying more than what's explicitly stated.
- Grice's maxims, especially the relevance maxim, explain how we achieve this conversational implicature.