Why Folk Psychology Provides Deeper Insights Into Search Intent

The search or user intent is a core aspect of most search marketing strategies and tactics. Leading platforms like Semrush and Ahrefs assign an intention class to keywords populated on the system. 

The above is a simple illustration in the work titled “The Category of the Mind: Folk Psychology of Belief, Desire, and Intention by  Yoshihisa Kashima

In the work he clearly stated that beliefs and desires do not primarily cause action but intention is believed to act as the causal link between belief-desire and action. In addition, within folk psychology humans are considered to utilise beliefs, desires and intentions to understand, predict and explain human action.

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How Amazon’s Commonsense AI Research on FolkScope and COSMO Validated My Thinking

As a search marketer, I came across the concept of commonsense reasoning in 2016 while reading articles on narrative intelligence. The curiosity to learn more about the topic and its key concepts led me to a thesis from Niket Tandon in 2019. His thesis is titled ‘Commonsense knowledge acquisition and applications.” 

This initial exposure to commonsense reasoning and an increasing passion for graph theory led to my first presentation at BrightonSEO on the topic “From knowledge graphs to commonsense knowledge graphs.” 

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