Thus, the most effective education and communication must explain why a person's misconceptions were formed and why they're incorrect, replacing the mental gaps with factually correct information.
Their mental gaps will need to be plugged too.
Deep Blue can't play checkers because it can't "mentally" represent or reason about checkers, and all other single-purpose AIs have similar "mental" gaps.
"There is a political gap, a mental gap and an economic gap," Jacob Astrom, one of the Swedish businessmen, told Reuters.
There is as much a physical gap as there is a mental gap between the top four and the rest.
Though there is some evidence of primitive art created by Neanderthal man, the distinction between these beautiful paintings (and those of Europe), and the crude, abstract Neanderthal grid pattern recently discovered in a cave in Gibraltar serves to illuminate the mental gap between the two species.
Once, having safely negotiated the scene that requires him to tumble over a sofa backward, he smacked his head on a door, leading to a two-minute onstage mental gap, he said, when he was not altogether sure where he was.
However, micro-macro thinking has been found to be problematic for students as they have difficulty in bridging the huge mental gap between microscopic and macroscopic levels (Harrison & Treagust, 2003; Eilam, 2004; Gilbert & Treagust, 2009; van Berkel et al., 2009).
Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, says the study fills yet another "mental gap" between humans and other species, adding to a list of impressive cognitive feats by animals such as the use of tools and planning for the future (ScienceNOW, 18 May 2006).
But, the concern, shared by some other independent Turkish colleagues, has to do with another core matter: if the mental gap is deliberately widened by the AKP government, using obstinately the 'Gülen card' vis a vis the Western allies, it will obscure further consequences the botched coup triggered in Turkey.
The project will focus on mental health gaps in Australia's culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.
