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Mental Abstractions

The Primacy of the Abstract is a talk given by the economist F. A. Hayek in 1969. It discusses the relationship between concrete and abstract mental phenomenon. In this post we summarize the main points made in his talk. Here are a few main points: * Mental abstractions are the...

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Mental Abstractions

The Primacy of the Abstract is a talk given by the economist F. A. Hayek in 1969. It discusses the relationship between concrete and abstract mental phenomenon. In this post we summarize the main points made in his talk. Here are a few main points: * Mental abstractions are the...

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The Primacy of the Abstract is a talk given by the economist F. A. Hayek in 1969. It discusses the relationship between concrete and abstract mental phenomenon. In this post we summarize the main points made in his talk. Here are a few main points:

Mental abstractions are the cause of concrete perceptions. In other words, abstractions can exist without concrete percepts, but concrete percepts can't exist without abstractions.
Particular behavioral outputs are the result of many mental abstractions jointly constraining the organism to perform that behavior
New mental abstractions cannot be designed in a top-down fashion, and are instead chosen from pre-existing abstractions that are found to be useful
The unconscious is more abstracted than

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