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So I’m workin’ on the ol’ thesis. I’m citing a paper about working memory, theory of mind and humour and I just now paid attention to the non-primary authors in the study. The surnames are Uekermann, Channon, Winkel, Schlebusch and Daum.
The Schlebusch is what got me. Such good ol’-fashioned German names. Schlebusch!
Anyhoo, my thesis is starting to take a DANGEROUSLY FEMINIST slant. Could it possibly be that the Superiority Theory of Humour grew out of patriarchy? With a name like Superiority Theory of Humour, I would have thought it grew out of flower beds and little babies’ belly buttons.
Fortunately, I ran it by my supervisor today, and he told me to elaborate even more on that particular paragraph. Yay! Hopefully I can stop myself before I hand in a slightly-charred WonderBra with my paper. Thank goodness for electronic submission.
Suppose now that we would have a workable generate-and-test scheme for constructing and ameliorating representations. Then we could apply this scheme to itself in order to make it more efficient. This is a peculiar characteristic of metarepresentations: a metarepresentation allows to manipulate representations, yet it is itself a representation; hence it can manipulate itself (cfr. Pitrat, 1986; Lenat, 1983; Newell, Shaw & Simon, 1960). This argument can also be used to explain why it is meaningless to look for a meta-metarepresentation, a meta-meta- metarepresentation, etc. Indeed, such higher level representations could only be used to reason about representations (from whatever level) and hence would not be in any way more powerful than the (second level) metarepresentation.
–Heylighen F. (1988): Formulating the Problem of Problem-Formulation, in: Cybernetics and Systems ‘88, Trappl R. (ed.), (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht), p. 949-957.
This paper makes me feel like I’m in The Matrix.
Cognition
Humour
Statistics
