Cogent confabulation

✍ Scribed by Robert Hecht-Nielsen

• Book ID: 104065303
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 103 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0893-6080
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2004.11.003

✦ Synopsis

A new model of vertebrate cognition is introduced: maximization of cogency p(abgdj3). This model is shown to be a direct generalization of Aristotelian logic, and to be rigorously related to a calculable quantity. A key aspect of this model is that in Aristotelian logic information environments it functions logically. However, in non-Aristotelian environments, instead of finding the conclusion with the highest probability of being true (a popular past model of cognition); this model instead functions in the manner of the 'duck test;' by finding that conclusion which is most supportive of the truth of the assumed facts.