[Heartlogic-dev] Open Heart Logic Wiki wiki page JoshuaGoalResearchQuestion updated by AnonymousGnome

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Open Heart Logic Wiki page JoshuaGoalResearchQuestion edited by AnonymousGnome

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 understand other agents as possessing goals and other mental states
 like ourselves.
 
-Human understanding of experience typically dawns between the age of
-nine to twelve months.  Infants begin to form a referential triangle
-of child, adult, and the object or event to which they both attend.
-Goal are expressed within this triadic framework.  Initially, infants
-observe what an adult attends to.  While observing, an infant may
-learn to solve her own problem by imitating adult behavior.  After a few
-months, infants begin to direct adult attention by pointing to
-external objects.  Most often, the term "joint attention" is used to
-refer to the basic social skills operating within this triadic
-framework.
+A human understanding of other agents typically dawns in human infants
+between the age of nine to twelve months.  Cognitively, infants form a
+referential triangle of child, adult, and the object or event to which
+they both attend.  Goals can be expressed within this triadic
+framework.  Initially, infants observe what an adult attends to.
+While observing, an infant may learn by imitating adult behavior.
+After a few months, infants begin to direct adult attention by
+pointing to external objects.  Most often, the term "joint attention"
+is used to refer to these basic social skills which are operating
+within a triadic framework.  Joint attention enables specialized forms
+of cognition, and eventually, language acquisition (Tomasello 2003).
 
-Joint attention enables specific forms of cognition.  OCC (1988)
-argued that emotions are dependent on cognition.  However, OCC does
-not distinguish between cognitions which require joint attention and
-cognitions which fit into a more limited cognitive framework.  Drawing
-this distinction is the concern here.  Which emotions could
-conceivably be experienced by an ape and which must be uniquely human
-emotions?
+OCC (1988) argued that emotions are dependent on cognition.  However,
+OCC does not distinguish between cognitions which require joint
+attention and cognitions which can likely be represented with the
+cognitive skills of non-human primates.  I will try to draw this
+distinction.  Which emotions can conceivably be experienced by an ape
+and which are uniquely human emotions?