Chapter One: Theories of Culture, Concepts of Mind
Anthropology, cognition-grounded anthropology versus cognitive anthropology; conceptions of mind, models of mind; cognitive-grounded anthropology and AI; Metaphor; and, dissertation outline.
Chapter One: Theories of Culture, Concepts of Mind
Anthropology, cognition-grounded anthropology versus cognitive anthropology; conceptions of mind, models of mind; cognitive-grounded anthropology and AI; Metaphor; and, dissertation outline.
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Chapter Two: The Computational Metaphor
Technological (computer) animism; computer metaphors for mind; metaphorical conflation; computers and the formalist tradition; and, model conflation.
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Chapter Three: Formalist Anthropology
Formalism in anthropology; cognition-grounded anthropology; development of cognitive anthropology; the formalist model of mind; limitations; formalist cognitive anthropology lives!
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Chapter Four: Challenges to Formalism and the Hermeneutic Alternative
Complexity; representation; the hermeneutic alternative; Dilthy; Geertz; Vygotsky; Lakoff; and hermeneutic models of mind.
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Chapter Five: Connectionism as an Hermeneutic Model of Mind
Connections and neural networks; distributed representation; landscapes, learning and complementary representation; additional aspects of neural networks; constraint windows; extending the landscape metaphor (vTAO); and, model of mind.
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Chapter Six: Un-defining Mind and Culture
Processing limitations; organization; learning; mind? and culture?
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Chapter Seven: Neo-Hermeneutic Anthropology, Directions for Additional Research
Culture is memory, memory is culture; let the description fit the problem; and future research projects.
