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"What was Molyneux's Question A Question About?"
Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted person could distinguish a sphere from a cube by sight alone, given that she was antecedently able to do so by touch. This, we contend, is a question about general ideas. To answer it, we must ask (a) whether spatial locations identified by touch can be identified also by sight, and (b) whether the integration of spatial locations into an idea of shape persists through changes of modality. Posed this way, Molyneux’s Question goes substantially beyond question (a), about spatial locations, alone; for a positive answer to (a) leaves open whether a perceiver might cross-identify locations, but not be able to identify the shapes that collections of locations comprise. We further emphasize that MQ targets general ideas so as to distinguish it from corresponding questions about experiences of shape and about the property of tangible (vs. visual) shape. After proposing a generalized formulation of MQ, we extend earlier work (“Many Molyneux Questions,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2020) by showing that MQ does not admit a single answer across the board. Some integrative data-processes transfer across modalities; others do not. Seeing where and how such transfer succeeds and fails in individual cases has much to offer to our understanding of perception and its modalities
What was Molyneux's Question A Question About?
Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted person could distinguish a sphere from a cube by sight alone, given that she was antecedently able to do so by touch. This, we contend, is a question about general ideas. To answer it, we must ask (a) whether spatial locations identified by touch can be identified also by sight, and (b) whether the integration of spatial locations into an idea of shape persists through changes of modality. Posed this way, Molyneux’s Question goes substantially beyond question (a), about spatial locations, alone; for a positive answer to (a) leaves open whether a perceiver might cross-identify locations, but not be able to identify the shapes that collections of locations comprise. We further emphasize that MQ targets general ideas so as to distinguish it from corresponding questions about experiences of shape and about the property of tangible (vs. visual) shape. After proposing a generalized formulation of MQ, we extend earlier work (“Many Molyneux Questions,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 2020) by showing that MQ does not admit a single answer across the board. Some integrative data-processes transfer across modalities; others do not. Seeing where and how such transfer succeeds and fails in individual cases has much to offer to our understanding of perception and its modalities
Quick Question
Poetry by Matt Del Busto. Winner in the 2018 Manuscripts Poetry Contest
Question Type Guided Attention in Visual Question Answering
Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires integration of feature maps with
drastically different structures and focus of the correct regions. Image
descriptors have structures at multiple spatial scales, while lexical inputs
inherently follow a temporal sequence and naturally cluster into semantically
different question types. A lot of previous works use complex models to extract
feature representations but neglect to use high-level information summary such
as question types in learning. In this work, we propose Question Type-guided
Attention (QTA). It utilizes the information of question type to dynamically
balance between bottom-up and top-down visual features, respectively extracted
from ResNet and Faster R-CNN networks. We experiment with multiple VQA
architectures with extensive input ablation studies over the TDIUC dataset and
show that QTA systematically improves the performance by more than 5% across
multiple question type categories such as "Activity Recognition", "Utility" and
"Counting" on TDIUC dataset. By adding QTA on the state-of-art model MCB, we
achieve 3% improvement for overall accuracy. Finally, we propose a multi-task
extension to predict question types which generalizes QTA to applications that
lack of question type, with minimal performance loss
Question Dependent Recurrent Entity Network for Question Answering
Question Answering is a task which requires building models capable of
providing answers to questions expressed in human language. Full question
answering involves some form of reasoning ability. We introduce a neural
network architecture for this task, which is a form of , that
recognizes entities and their relations to answers through a focus attention
mechanism. Our model is named
and extends by exploiting aspects of the question
during the memorization process. We validate the model on both synthetic and
real datasets: the question answering dataset and the $CNN\ \&\ Daily\
Newsreading\ comprehension$ dataset. In our experiments, the models achieved
a State-of-The-Art in the former and competitive results in the latter.Comment: 14 page
Question Isotropy
The "cosmological principle" was set up early without realizing its
implications for the horizon problem, and almost entirely without support from
observational data. Consistent signals of anisotropy have been found in data on
electromagnetic propagation, polarizations of QSOs and temperature maps.
The axis of Virgo is found again and again in signals breaking isotropy, from
independent observables in independent energy regimes. There are no
satisfactory explanations of these effects in conventional astrophysics.
Axion-photon mixing and propagation in axion condensates are capable of
encompassing the data.Comment: Published in Axions 2010: AIP Conf.Proc.1274:72-77,2010, edited by
David Tanne
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