Even if the construction and recognition of analogies are largely a matter of perception, this does not eliminate the need for subsequent critical evaluation of analogicalinferences.
(Contrasted with simple, context-free appraisal of an object as it is in itself)
The act of aesthetic judgment that surveys an object together with all the circumstances attending it, rather than considering the object in isolation.
perception(Hume's theory of ideas)
Any mental activity that brings something before the mind; the basic unit of mental life in Hume's theory of ideas.
Orderly structures emerge out of random low-level processes and the program produces plausible solutions. Copycat thus shows that analogy-making can be modeled as a process akin to perception, even if the program employs mechanisms distinct from those in human perception. The multiconstraint theory and Copycat share the idea that analogical cognition involves cognitive processes that operate below the level of abstract reasoning. Both computational models—to the extent that they are capable of