Gilead et al. state that abstraction supports mental travel, and that mental travel critically relies on abstraction. I propose an important addition to this theoretical framework, namely that mental travel might also support abstraction. Specifically, I argue that spontaneous mental travel (mind wandering), much like data augmentation in machine learning, provides variability in mental content and context necessary for abstraction.

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思维游荡作为数据增强：心理旅行如何支持抽象

吉利德等人。陈述抽象支持心理旅行，而心理旅行严重依赖抽象。我对这个理论框架提出了一个重要的补充，即心理旅行也可能支持抽象。具体来说，我认为自发的心理旅行（走神)，就像机器学习中的数据增强一样，提供抽象所需的心理内容和上下文的可变性。