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  1. Jul 2018
    1. On 2015 Dec 15, Ehtibar Dzhafarov commented:

      In response to Bernard Baars: one should discuss well-defined concepts rather than mere words. The opening lines of our paper will reveal that we use the term "contextuality" in a rigorously defined sense derived from its use in quantum mechanics. In psychology, linguistics, and other areas the word "contextuality," when a definite meaning thereof can be extracted at all, usually means what we call inconsistent connectedness. The latter is indeed "absolutely routine." In the last sentence of the abstract it is referred to as "ubiquitous dependence of response distributions on the elements of contexts other than the ones to which the response is presumably or normatively directed."


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    2. On 2015 Dec 10, Bernard Baars commented:

      I'm sorry --- I'm sure the physics on this is correct. But in psychobiology and social psychology contextuality is absolutely routine. It is usually called context-dependence, or ambiguity, or even sensory uncertain, and is covered in hundreds of PubMed abstracts.

      Here is one example from the Journal of Vision, called "What is White?"

      That problem was partly solved by Isaac Newton, but not entirely: J Vis. 2015 Dec 1;15(16):5. doi: 10.1167/15.16.5.What is white? Bosten JM, Beer RD, MacLeod DI.


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  2. Feb 2018
    1. On 2015 Dec 10, Bernard Baars commented:

      I'm sorry --- I'm sure the physics on this is correct. But in psychobiology and social psychology contextuality is absolutely routine. It is usually called context-dependence, or ambiguity, or even sensory uncertain, and is covered in hundreds of PubMed abstracts.

      Here is one example from the Journal of Vision, called "What is White?"

      That problem was partly solved by Isaac Newton, but not entirely: J Vis. 2015 Dec 1;15(16):5. doi: 10.1167/15.16.5.What is white? Bosten JM, Beer RD, MacLeod DI.


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    2. On 2015 Dec 15, Ehtibar Dzhafarov commented:

      In response to Bernard Baars: one should discuss well-defined concepts rather than mere words. The opening lines of our paper will reveal that we use the term "contextuality" in a rigorously defined sense derived from its use in quantum mechanics. In psychology, linguistics, and other areas the word "contextuality," when a definite meaning thereof can be extracted at all, usually means what we call inconsistent connectedness. The latter is indeed "absolutely routine." In the last sentence of the abstract it is referred to as "ubiquitous dependence of response distributions on the elements of contexts other than the ones to which the response is presumably or normatively directed."


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