a modeling as
an analogy-making
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인지과학 협동과정,
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JABBERWOCKY
’Twas brilling, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!“
………
Problem- jabberwocky
"It seems very pretty", she said when she had finished it,
"but it's rather hard to understand!" (You see, she didn't
like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn't make it
out at all.) "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas-only I don't exactly know what they are! However,
somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate--"
(from Lewis Caroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872)
Jabberwocky’s
original image
Analogy problems in reading Jabberwocky
(Humpty Dumpty’s explanation)
• Brilling: broiling time(evening)
• slithy: lithe & slimy
(cf. portmanteau)
• toves: badgers & lizards & corkscrews
• gyre: go round and round like a gyroscope
• gimble: make holes like a gimlet
• mimsy: flimsy & miserable
(cf. portmanteau)
• borogove: a thin shabby-looking bird
Analogy problems in reading Jabberwocky
(Humpty Dumpty’s explanation 2)
• rath: a sort of green pig
• outgrabing: something between bellowing
and an whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the
middle
• frumious: fuming & furious
Analogy problems in reading
Jabberwocky
(Lewis Carrol’s explanation)
• uffish thought: a state of mind when the voice
is gruffish, the manner roughish, the temper
huffish
• burble: bleat, murmer, warble
• vorpal: ?
• tulgey: ?
A kind of hypothesis
• memory-slippage: Memory can be fluid,
not fixed
• fluidity for what?: for an analogy-making
• an analogy-making is quintessential
mental activity to need a memory-slippage
• when does a memory-slippage happen?:
under some pressure(for making an analogy
within a short due, for a self-adaptation)
Analogy-making & mental fluidity
• Paraphrasing the core semantics of
the wordplays or puns-- a kind of
analogy-making
• The core of the cognition
• Nonsense poem; not as conveyor of
daily routine meaning, but activation
trigger of neighboring concepts
Task
• slithy’s activation;
slimy, slither, slippery, lithe, sly
• humpty dumpty’s activation;
assigning semantics into pseudo -word
Pressure -> Memory’s slippage-> Paraphrase
Hopefully expected results
`Twas brilling, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble
in the wabe: / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the
mome raths outgrabe.
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It was broiling (time), and the slimy and active badgers,
lizards, and corkscrews / went round and round like a
gyroscope, and made holes like a gimlet in a long way
before it: / All flimsy and miserable were thin shabbylooking birds, / And the green pigs lost from home were
between bellowing and whistling.
An example of
an analogy-making process
<slithy>
activating: slimy, slither, slippery, lithe, sly…
memorizing into just one pot: slimy+slither,
slimy+slippery, … , lithe+sly, …
segmenting: by syllable, by pronunciation, by
semantics, …
making slipping:
finding same(?) node:
: = slimy + lithe
The three major components of
the program’s architecture
1. The Everland
2. Humpty Dumpty, the operator
3. The Wonderland
1. Everland
• The site of all permanent Platonic
concepts
• long-term memory, (roughly speaking)
• explicit core concept surrounded by no
explicit, diffused region
• pressure makes core concept blurred
into diffuse region
2. Humpty Dumpties
• The operators
• Who are selected (stochastically?) from the
Wonderland, rather than in a determinate order
• Featuring mental fludity
• kniferism(interchange of vowel groups)
• spoonerism(interchange of the initial consonant
clusters)
• switch syllables
• forkerism(interchange of final consonant
clusters)…
3. the Wonderland
• The locus of perceptual activity
• Contains objects of various concepts from
the Everland, combined into temporary
perceptual structures (e.g., raw syllables,
semantics, bonds, groups, bridges…)
• Short-term memory, or working memory,
(roughly speaking)
• Resembling the ‘blackboard’ of Hearsay 2
• …
processes
1. Word-formation process
intuition just for word-formation
2. Semantics-taking process
Word-formation process(1-2)
•
•
•
•
Rule the English corpus out
Letter -> syllable -> word
Dissolving a nonsense word
Reformation ; conceptual molecule, chunk,
by cluster, by syllable, by word
• Coherent Gestalt from little knowledge
base of human
Word-formation process(2-2)
• Entropy-preserving and increasing
• Entropy= perceived disorder
• Multi-level cleaving; splicing;
regrouping; reordering; rearranging;
dissolving…
Alicetotell and parallelism
• Analogous with cell formation processes
• Many metabolic activities take place
simultaneously at different spatial
locations
• Each activity(anabolic/catabolic; bondforming/bond-breaking) is carried out by
an enzyme
Affinities among elements
•
•
•
•
sc: initial 2
sl : initial 5
sp: initial 4,
sq: initial 3
/
/
final
/
sh: initial 8, final 8
sm: initial 5, 2
2 / s-ph: initial 2
str: initial 3
Fluid data-structure(1-2)
• pang-loss
• pong-lass
• long-pass
•
•
•
•
•
pass-long
pas-slong
sap-slong
slap-song
slang-sop
• sop-slang
• slop-sang
(start)
kniferism(interchange of vowel groups)
spoonerism(interchange of the initial
consonant clusters)
switch syllables
regroup ‘s’
reverse syllable
spoonerism
forkerism(interchange of final
consonant clusters)
switch syllables
spoonerism
Fluid data-structure(2-2)
• slos-pang
•
•
•
•
los-spang
loss-spang
pang-loss
pan-gloss
sporkerism(mix of spoonerism and
forkerism)
spoonerism
regroup ‘s’
switch syllables
regroup ‘g’
•
•
•
•
•
now-here
no-where
on-where
whon-ere
ere-whon
(start)
regroup ‘w’
letter-level reversal of first syllable
spoonerism (degenerate form)
syllable-level reversal of full word