Mechanisms of Teleological Change

Generic Teleological Mechanisms andtheir Use in Case

In experience-based (or case-based) reasoning, new problems are solved by retrieving and adapting the solutions to similar problems encountered in the past. An important issue in experience-based reasoning is to identify diierent types of knowledge and reasoning useful for diierent classes of case-adaptation tasks. In this paper, we examine a class of non-routine case-adaptation tasks that invo...

Teleological understanding of actions

All organisms pursue goals that promote their survival and reproduction. For many species, the small repertoire of basic drive-related goals and behavioural means to achieve them are genetically specified and are triggered by appropriate releasing stimuli. Other species, most notably, but not exclusively, mammals and birds, have much more flexible ways to accomplish their goals, tailoring their...

The Multiple Meanings of Teleological

Teleological computer graphics modeling

Computer graphics consists of two main activities: modeling, which is the science of making mathematical abstractions of objects, and rendering or visualization, in which images are made from the mathematical abstractions. In this talk, teleological modeling is presented, a developing approach for creating abstractions and mathematical representations of physically realistic time-dependent obje...

'Obsessed with goals': functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans.

Humans show a strong and early inclination to interpret observed behaviours of others as goal-directed actions. We identify two main epistemic functions that this 'teleological obsession' serves: on-line prediction and social learning. We show how teleological action interpretations can serve these functions by drawing on two kinds of inference ('action-to-goal' or 'goal-to-action'), and argue ...