Vladimir A. Lefebvre (1996) Extracting Information About Subjective States
. Psycoloquy: 7(08) Human Choice (6)
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Psycoloquy 7(08): Extracting Information About Subjective States
EXTRACTING INFORMATION ABOUT SUBJECTIVE STATES
FROM A FUNCTION DESCRIBING HUMAN BEHAVIOR
Reply to Rapoport on Human-Choice
Vladimir A. Lefebvre
School of Social Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California
VALEFEBV@UCI.EDU
Abstract
Within the framework of a formal model of the subject
(Lefebvre, 1995), mathematical analysis of a function representing
the subject's behavior allows us to find another function
corresponding to an "image of the self." In this way we
successfully obtain information about the subject's inner domain
without relying on introspective methods.
Keywords
choice; computation; decision theory; ethical cognition;
mathematical psychology; model building; parameter estimation;
probability; rationality.
References
- Rapoport, A. (1995) Human Reflexion and the Anthropic Principle. PSYCOLOQUY (6)37 human-choice.3.rapoport
- Lefebvre, V. A. (1995) The Anthropic Principle and Human Choice. PSYCOLOQUY (6)29 human-choice.1.lefebvre.
- Lefebvre, V. A. (1992) A Psychological Theory of Bipolarity and Reflexivity. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press.