丑小鸭定理及其推论的认知科学涵义

The Cognizant and Scientific Connotation of the Ugly Duckling Theorem and Its Corollaries

生物认知系统基于回避指数爆炸的天然倾向,经常采取限制分类深度和忽略小概率事件等降低认知成本的认知策略。根据模式识别专家渡边慧的“丑小鸭定理”,这些认知策略的执行并不取决于事实判断,而取决于价值观。多方证据显示,大时间尺度下的进化过程对生物价值观的形成、固化及再塑起决定作用。

The biological cognizance system is based on life's natural tendency to avoid index explosion and often takes such cognizance strategies as limiting the depth of classification and ignoring incidents of small probability to lower cognizance costs.According to the ugly duckling theorem, the performing of these strategies does not depend on factual judgment but on values.Evidences from various sources indicate that the evolution process under the large time framework plays a decisive role in the formation,fixation and reformation of biological values.