Causal Knowledge in Semantic Networks: The Case of Living Things

Neuroscience theories view concepts as embodied, amodal, or both. But what are amodal semantic representations? Taking the case of living things, I suggest that they 1) are acquired equivalently from language and vision (blindness evidence) 2) instantiate causal knowledge (e.g., illness). Amodal semantic networks are neural repositories of ‘intuitive theories.’