類似性の発見と展開

When we encounter an unfamiliar object or a novel concept, it will be connected to something familiar through some similarities. The familiar image will be the base of our understanding of unfamiliar objects or concepts. It is surprising that one and only image suddenly comes to mind, when any object or concept has an infinite number of things which it shares similarities. This paper first demonstrates that some familiar image with a holistic similarity emerges when we try to grasp some object or concept. This will be the beginning of analogical reasoning, which is a way of thinking based on perceiving similarities. This paper will also show that this familiar image develops and changes. Once we notice a holistic similarity between two different objects or concepts, our minds will continue to search for more similarities as well as any dissimilarities between the two. The familiar image often gains new similarities, there-by turning into a more concrete and richer image. But it might be changed or discarded when it is judged to have too many dissimilarities. In that case, another image will be sought as a replacement.

公開日:2010年1月24日で登録したコンテンツは、国立情報学研究所において電子化したものです。