TY - JOUR
T1 - The brain attics
T2 - the strategic role of memory in single and multi-agent inquiry
AU - Genot, Emmanuel J.
AU - Jacot, Justine
PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - M. B. Hintikka (1939–1987) and J. Hintikka (1929–2016) claimed that their reconstruction of the ‘Sherlock Holmes sense of deduction’ can “serve as an explication for the link between intelligence and memory” (1983, p. 159). The claim is vindicated, first for the single-agent case, where the reconstruction captures strategies for accessing the content of a distributed and associative memory; then, for the multi-agent case, where the reconstruction captures strategies for accessing knowledge distributed in a community. Moreover, the reconstruction of the ‘Sherlock Holmes sense of deduction’ allows to conceptualize those strategies as belonging to a continuum of behavioral strategies.
AB - M. B. Hintikka (1939–1987) and J. Hintikka (1929–2016) claimed that their reconstruction of the ‘Sherlock Holmes sense of deduction’ can “serve as an explication for the link between intelligence and memory” (1983, p. 159). The claim is vindicated, first for the single-agent case, where the reconstruction captures strategies for accessing the content of a distributed and associative memory; then, for the multi-agent case, where the reconstruction captures strategies for accessing knowledge distributed in a community. Moreover, the reconstruction of the ‘Sherlock Holmes sense of deduction’ allows to conceptualize those strategies as belonging to a continuum of behavioral strategies.
KW - Associative memory
KW - Cognitive outsourcing
KW - Distributed knowledge
KW - Interrogative approach to inquiry
KW - Sherlock Holmes
U2 - 10.1007/s11229-018-1743-6
DO - 10.1007/s11229-018-1743-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081937352
VL - 197
SP - 1203
EP - 1224
JO - Synthese
JF - Synthese
SN - 0039-7857
IS - 3
ER -