TY - INPR ID - cogprints4151 UR - http://cogprints.org/4151/ A1 - Harnad, Stevan TI - Spare Me the Complements: An Immoderate Proposal for Eliminating the "We/They" Category Boundary Y1 - 2005/// N2 - A speculative hypothesis about how to eliminate the "we/they" distinction by rearing children (during early critical years) in "aggregates in flux" instead of in kinship-based families: A category cannot be formed from positive examples only: one must be able to sample both what is and what is not in a category in order to recognise the category at all. The basis for the distinction is the features shared by the members (invariants), and absent from the non-members. In "aggregates in flux," the individual members would be constantly varying (and unrelated, genetically). The only invariant would be that they are all human. AV - public KW - category learning KW - uncomplemented categories KW - early experience KW - socialization KW - critical period KW - ethnocentrism KW - we/they distinction ER -