If-then planning

Goal Implementation : The benefits and costs of IF-THEN planning

A lthough the relationship between goals and behavior is substantial (Webb & Sheeran, 2006), even very motivated individuals at times fai! to act on their goals. In this chapter, we discuss the role of plans in linking goals with actual behavior. We focus specifically on a certain type of plan, an if-then plan known as an implementation intention, and review its place in the course of goal stri...

Even if after If then conditionals

This study evaluates how people represent “even if” conditionals when they have to integrate them with previous “if then” conditionals and also make an inference. The terms in the premises were ordered to facilitate their integration (Figure 1: If A then B; Even if B C). In half the cases, the “even if” conditional was expressed with a negation instead of an affirmation (If A then B; Even if no...

If intelligence is uncomputable , then ... *

I want to propose an abstract model of the human mind that is, to the human mind, a bit like what a Euclidean rectangle is to a farmer’s field. I want to show why intelligence, in this model, requires a particular kind of uncomputability – the kind that Gold [2] has called computability in the limit. This observation has implications for Computer Science and Cognitive Science if my abstract mod...

Continuous If-Then Statements Are Computable

In many practical situations, we must compute the value of an if-then expression f(x) defined as “if c(x) ≥ 0 then f+(x) else f−(x)”, where f+(x), f−(x), and c(x) are computable functions. The value f(x) cannot be computed directly, since in general, it is not possible to check whether a given real number c(x) is non-negative or non-positive. Similarly, it is not possible to compute the value f...

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