Essay.06-JinfanHe-2200012979

Jinfan He

Keywords: Intentionality

Abstract: Humans have a tendency to interpret the actions of others as goal-directed, a tendency that manifests itself as early as infancy. Infants demonstrate the ability to differentiate between behavior influenced by external factors and behavior guided by an explicit goal. The goal attribution aids in predicting the actions of others and engaging in social learning. This paper introduces two possible cognitive hypotheses: teleological reasoning and action-goal association theory. It explains how both hypotheses fit into different aspects of human goal attribution ability. Then, a computational model is presented that emulates the human goal attribution ability by utilizing Bayesian inverse planning to represent potential goals based on observed action sequences and the environment.Finally, we discuss how to achieve goal attribution for abstract goals and highlight the potential issues associated with solely linking them to subgoals.

Submission Number: 135