Shared intentionality and the representation of groups; or, how to build a socially adept robot.
Journal:
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Published Date:
Jul 7, 2022
Abstract
Pietraszewski provides a compelling case that representations of certain interaction-types are the "cognitive primitives" that allow all tokens of to be represented within the mind. Here, I argue that the folk concept GROUP encodes shared intentions and goals as more central than these interaction-types, and that providing a computational theory of social groups will be more difficult than Pietraszewski envisages.