{"pk":31396,"title":"Why are Situations Hard","subtitle":null,"abstract":"An ecological model of human information processing is introduced which characterizes intuition as a state oracle providing information for particular types of situations for which attunements to constraints have been developed. The consequences of this model are examined showing among other things that: for a cognitive task with a fixed problem space difficulty can only be reduced by introducing metaphor, difficulty of translation is minimum for a situationally equivalent metaphor, a situationally equivalent metaphor preserves and reflects extrinsic information about the situation, any situation containing a subcategory isomorphic to a problem situation can be made into a metaphor by supplying instructions, these characteristics can be exploited by an algorithm which chooses a metaphor in such a way that attunements are substituted for problem constraints and instructions are used as an \"error term\".","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3j27b6sd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lewis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1992-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31396/galley/22465/download/"}]}