Woher weiß Ihr Gehirn, dass eine Katze eine Katze ist: Ein Gespräch mit den renommierten Neurowissenschaftlern Lisa Feldman Barrett und Earl Miller über Kategorien, „Volkspsychologie“, den Anfängergeist und schnelles und langsames Denken
https://nautil.us/how-does-your-brain-know-a-cat-is-a-cat-1280394
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My time of thumb is „Long tail + short nose is a cat. Long tail + long nose is a dog“
This works most of the time. It does make an elephant a type of dog, though.
What’s interesting is this is exactly the problem AI ran into, a rule-based classification fails, so modern systems use probabilistic models instead. The brain seems to be doing something very similar: not applying definitions, but constantly predicting ‘how likely is this to be a cat?’ based on experience