The commentaries address our view of abstraction, our ontology of abstract entities, and our account of predictive cognition as relying on relatively concrete simulation or relatively abstract theory-based inference. These responses revisit classic questions concerning mental representation and abstraction in the context of current models of predictive cognition. The counter arguments to our article echo: constructivist theories of knowledge, “neat” approaches in artificial intelligence and decision theory, neo-empiricist models of concepts, and externalist views of cognition. We offer several empirical predictions that address points of contention and that highlight the generative potential of our model.

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超越“超越混凝土”

评论阐述了我们对抽象的看法、我们对抽象实体的本体论以及我们对预测认知的解释，这些预测认知依赖于相对具体的模拟或相对抽象的基于理论的推理。这些回答在当前预测认知模型的背景下重新审视了有关心理表征和抽象的经典问题。我们文章的反驳论点呼应：知识的建构主义理论、人工智能和决策理论中的“简洁”方法、概念的新经验主义模型以及认知的外部主义观点。我们提供了几个经验预测来解决争论点并突出我们模型的生成潜力。