Bender Andrea
Department of Psychosocial Science, SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jan 22;11:3. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00003. eCollection 2020.
While gaining an understanding of cause-effect relations is the key of causal cognition, its are less clearly delineated. Standard approaches in the field focus on how individuals detect, learn, and reason from statistical regularities, thereby prioritizing cognitive processes over content and context. This article calls for a broadened perspective. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of what is going on when humans engage in causal cognition-including its application to machine cognition-it is argued, we also need to take into account the content that informs the processing, the means and mechanisms of knowledge accumulation and transmission, and the cultural context in which both accumulation and transmission take place.
虽然理解因果关系是因果认知的关键，但其边界却不太清晰。该领域的标准方法侧重于个体如何从统计规律中进行检测、学习和推理，从而将认知过程置于内容和背景之上。本文呼吁采用更广阔的视角。为了更全面地理解人类进行因果认知时所发生的情况——包括其在机器认知中的应用——有人认为，我们还需要考虑为处理提供信息的内容、知识积累和传播的方式及机制，以及积累和传播发生的文化背景。
