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No bootstrapping without semantic inheritance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Julian Kiverstein
Julian Kiverstein
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 7PU, Scotland, United Kingdom. j.kiverstein@ed.ac.ukhttp://www.artandphilosophy.com/philosophy.html
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Abstract

Anderson's massive redeployment hypothesis (MRH) takes the grounding of meaning in sensorimotor behaviour to be a side effect of neural reuse. I suggest this grounding may play a much more fundamental role in accounting for the bootstrapping of higher-level cognition from sensorimotor behaviour. Thus, the question of when neural reuse delivers semantic inheritance is a pressing one for MRH.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 279 - 280
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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