Different computational techniques and reading material that might shed some light on the different squishy aspects of representation and meaning.

Reading

  • Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (psych experiments on categorization)
    • indefinite boundaries (fuzzy sets)
    • indefinite elements (vague items)
    • multiplicity of structure (different parts based on viewpoint)
    • leakage from context
  • Terrence Sejnowski Sonar NN paper
    • Analysis of Hidden Units in a Layered Network Trained to Classify Sonar Targets
    • back out NN meaning
  • reaching capacity, “get-stuck theorem” by C. Landauer
  • Conceptual Categories

Techniques

  • manifold discovery
  • semantic embedding

Ideas