Can the way we perceive forces explain how we understand both physical actions and social interactions? Peter Gardenfors extends his conceptual spaces framework from static objects to the dynamic world of action and events.

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Peter Gardenfors introduces his theory of conceptual spaces as a geometric approach to knowledge representation that sits between symbolic AI and neural networks. The framework organizes knowledge along quality dimensions grouped into domains, such as the three-dimensional color space of hue, brightness, and saturation. Concepts correspond to convex regions in these high-dimensional spaces, with prototypes at their centers of gravity. Gardenfors describes the framework as neo-Kantian: some domains are innate, tied to our sensory organs, while ot ...