The reference to linear algebra should only show, that there have to be states which are mapped to similar representations, even if we don’t know a priory which ones will be correlated.
But if we now look closer at the structure of the brain as a neural network and the learning mechanisms involved, then I think that we could expect positive concepts to be correlated by cross activation, as you explained.
The point of the article is not to come up with a perfect explanation for how the halo effect is actually caused, but to show that there doesn’t have to be an evolutionary reason for it to evolve, besides the ‘obvious’ one that pwno mentions in his comment.
Yes. I thought you were making an interesting and useful point. I was offering you an alternate formalism to explain the phenomenon, not expressing a disagreement with anything you wrote.
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The reference to linear algebra should only show, that there have to be states which are mapped to similar representations, even if we don’t know a priory which ones will be correlated.
But if we now look closer at the structure of the brain as a neural network and the learning mechanisms involved, then I think that we could expect positive concepts to be correlated by cross activation, as you explained.
The point of the article is not to come up with a perfect explanation for how the halo effect is actually caused, but to show that there doesn’t have to be an evolutionary reason for it to evolve, besides the ‘obvious’ one that pwno mentions in his comment.
Yes. I thought you were making an interesting and useful point. I was offering you an alternate formalism to explain the phenomenon, not expressing a disagreement with anything you wrote.