Philosophy
Idealism is....
a) the stance of someone of believes in the best outcome of an ideal world
b) the stance of someone who holds that ideas are depicting the truth
c) the stance of someone who holds that the mind/ideas play an important role in reality
d) the stance of someone who holds that the mind/ideas play an important role in phenomenology
c
What is the name of the female protagonist of "Metalhead"?
Bella
Which out of the following movies is the oldest:
Mulholland Drive
Arrival
Her
Lost Highway
Ex Machina
Lost Highway (1997)
A unique phenomenon of a distance, however close it may be.
What is an icon according to Peirce?
A sign by analogy or resemblance
What is the Latin version of Descartes' "I think therefore I am" ?
Cogito Ergo Sum
In "Hang the DJ", what is the circular device called that Frank and Amy use and that matches them with partners for fixed periods of time?
Coach
A programmer who works for the dominant search engine company Blue Book, wins an office contest for a one-week visit to the luxurious, isolated home of the CEO.
What is the movie?
Ex machina
In "Video Ergo Sum", the experiments showed that vision dominates over ______________ (the sense though which we perceive the position and movement of our body)
Proprioception
A syllogism consists of three parts. Can you name them?
Major Premise
Minor Premise
Conclusion
What is Epistemology?
....is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge
In "Striking Vipers", the in-game characters are called
- Lance and Roxette
- Karl and Mariella
- Danny and Theo
Programmer _________ Smith , who works for the dominant search engine company Blue Book, wins an office contest for a one-week visit to the luxurious, isolated home of the CEO, ______Bateman.
What are their first names?
Caleb, Nathan
A sign by physically contiguous causality in Peirce's theory is called....
.... An index
Can you explain "metaphor" in cognitive terms?
Mapping semantics from a source domain onto a very different target domain.
What is Ontology and how is it different from Metaphysics?
Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality.
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that also studies the first principles of being, including identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of consciousness and the relationship between mind and matter.
In "Playtest", when Cooper arrives at the SaitoGemu company, he is met by ______ ? (What is the name of the woman who implants the mushroom in his neck)?
Katie
In "Her" what is the full name of the male protagonist?
a) ____ Twombly
b) _____ Thorne
c) _____ Bagwell
d) _______ Nott
Theodore Twombly
Before we form perceptual judgments, according to Peirce, we deal with more basic instances of perception called "________"
percepts
What is a state of Higher-Order-Representation ?
A HOR is a “meta-psychological” state, i.e., a mental state directed at another mental state.
What is Nick Bostrom's argument of his article "Are you living in a virtual reality?"
If you hold that
"The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero"
and that
"The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history, or variations thereof, is very close to zero",
then
"The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one."
How many episodes of Black Mirror are there in total by now?
a) 19
b) 21
c) 17
d) 23
b
Lost Highway stars
_______(Fred Madison)
______ (Renee Madison/Alice Wakefield)
Bill Pullman
Patricia Arquette
________________ is defined as the ability to recall and mentally reexperience specific episodes from one's personal past and is contrasted with semantic memory that includes memory for generic, context-free knowledge.
Episodic Memory
What is problem of Unity in Consciousness theory?
From the first-person point of view, we experience the world in an integrated way and as a single phenomenal field of experience.
But when one looks at how the brain processes information, one only sees discrete regions of the cortex processing separate aspects of perceptual objects.
Even different aspects of the same object, such as its color and shape, are processed in different parts of the brain