I'm sure it's true in some cases. Somebody who leans only by looking at Cypriot doors the door concept vs somebody who learns by looking at UK ones, will have different visual representations of door and yet unbeknownst to either (usually) they communicate!
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How is that possible? Sorry to insert the question, but this is one of the key research questions I'm working on at the moment (with bigger team of communication researchers).
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @zerdeve and
The visual statistics of Cypriot doors are different!pic.twitter.com/J0IHt00Fvi
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I understand. I meant, how is it possible that two people understand each other / communicate while not have same representations? I mean to ask philosophically.
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @zerdeve and
Because the relationship between door and other things is similar. Did you get a chance to read the bits about similarity spaces and functional smoothness in my latest/elife paper?
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
Does that make sense? Sorry I'm underground so it's tough to tweet promptly!
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
Basically even though their representations are different the relationships between them are on a high level very comparable!
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Replying to @o_guest @IrisVanRooij and
Please cite my paper if you use that as
@ProfData came up with the concept/definition of functional smoothness in: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21397 …
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Can I ask you, in your notion of 'similarity' do you allow for similarity based on deep structural analogies? That is, where there is no visual/object/feature level similarity but all similarity comes from structural relational resemblence.>>
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Replying to @IrisVanRooij @o_guest and
I ask because I think we cannot do without analogy in communication, and we know analogies by definitions go beyond surface similarity.
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Yes, I think so.
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