Triptico

Photos, photo manipulation and artistic design: Adolfo Vera.
Concept design: Timo Honkela, Eeva Pitkälä and Adolfo Vera.


Background

The basic idea in the photo is to illuminate the subjective aspect in understanding and producing language. That aspect is reflected in the word in the three book covers ("green", "yellow green" and "chartreuse"). Moreover, the number three refers to the classical division into concepts, names and objects. From the point of view of cognitive science and intelligent systems engineering, the picture can be used to raise the question of how to related the linguistic expressions to real-world perceptions and, furthermore, how to relate expressions used by different people or agents in different situations.


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Timo Honkela, 23 Sep 2004.