Pretense as Creative Hallucination

Towards Creative Humanoid Conceptualization Learning from Metaphor-Guided Pretense Play

This paper describes a newly proposed approach towards investigating how social humanoid robots can learn creative conceptualizations through interaction with children in metaphor-guided pretense play using a componential creativity framework. We describe this metaphor-guided pretense play approach and then illustrate it by describing a social robot interaction pretense play scenario between a ...

Propositions as semantic pretense

Our linguistic and inferential practices are said to implicate a kind of abstract object playing various roles traditionally attributed to propositions, and our predictive and explanatory success with this ‘‘proposition-talk’’ is held to underwrite a realistic interpretation of it. However, these very same practices pull us in different directions regarding the nature of propositions, frustrati...

The world as reality, as resource, and as pretense.

Pretense and Cognitive Architecture

Herein I sketch out the foundations of a computational theory of pretense, where pretense is broadly defined as pretend-play. In keeping with the sizable literature on the topic, I assume that pretending involves a number of distinct features that include the intentional decoupling of pretense from reality. A scenario is presented that involves all of what have been claimed to be necessary cond...

Cortical mechanisms of pretense observation.

Pretend play emerges in children the world over around 18 months and continues into adolescence and even adulthood. Observing and engaging in pretense are thought to rely on similar neural mechanisms, but little is known about them. Here we examined neural activation patterns associated with observing pretense acts, including high-likelihood, low-likelihood, and imaginary substitute objects, as...