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Cognitive bootstrapping enables agents to adapt their perception and refine world models. This process requires a priori percept/motor links for empirical validation, improving learning efficiency.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics

Background:

Human cognition exhibits representational plasticity, allowing modification of perceptual primitives.
Cognitive bootstrapping involves autonomous updating of an agent's perceptual framework to maintain consistent environment modeling.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a theoretical framework for cognitive bootstrapping.
To argue for the necessity of a priori percept/motor interrelations for epistemic grounding.
To introduce a computational model for perception-action learning.

Main Methods:

Specified a logically-inductive model of perception-action learning.
Implemented compact re-parameterization of the percept space.
Utilized a priori percept/action coupling for empirical validation of perceptual inferences.
Employed exploratory action to validate affordance conjectures.

Main Results:

The model significantly reduces the a priori perceptual parameter-space size and specificity.
Fewer iterations are required for accurate world-model convergence.
Active learning characteristics enhance the cognitive bootstrapping mechanism.

Conclusions:

Cognitive bootstrapping is epistemically sound when coupled with a priori percept/motor interrelations.
The proposed model offers an efficient mechanism for perception-action learning and world-modeling.
This approach has implications for developing more adaptable and efficient artificial agents.