The Brain
These are the lobes of the brain.
In metaphors where we compare the mind to a computer, the brain is the ____ and the mind is the ______.
What are hardware are software?
This version of AI states that machines are capable of carrying out some of the tasks that human beings can perform.
What is weak AI?
Newell and Simon stated that the PSSH has the necessary and sufficient means for this.
What is intelligent action?
Damage to this lobe of the brain would be most likely to result in damage to hearing and/or language?
What is the temporal lobe?
These imaging techniques have better spatial resolution than temporal resolution
What are PET and fMRI?
The basic symbol structure in the human mind is often referred to as this.
What is "mentalese" or the Language of Thought
This type of agent is not "real" a cognitive system.
What is a simple reflex agent?
Searle's fundamental objection to the PSSH is this
There must be more to thinking than manipulating symbols according to rules
This is what makes up the "white matter" of the brain.
What are the (myelinated) axons of neurons?
The cerebral cortex is part of this division of the brain.
What is the forebrain?
This feature of the mind is not present in the massive modularity account
What is central processing?
These are "systems comprising sets of symbols, ways of joining symbols so as to express complex propositions, and rules specifying how to legally derive new symbol complexes from old ones"
What are formal logics?
This reply to the "Russian Room" states that while the person in the room doesn't understand, he is part of the whole and the whole DOES understand...
What is the "Systems" Reply?
This is the type of AI that Searle argued against; (define it too)
What is strong AI - which states that machines can be genuinely intelligent.
This technique for studying the brain is similar to EEG but uses magnetic fields, and allows for finer spatial resolution than EEG...
What is MEG?
This is the "system" that is active in the mind/brain when nothing else is happening.
What is the Default Mode Network?
This type of agent has no capacity to learn from experience, but is considered a cognitive system.
What is a goal-based agent?
A Universal Turing machine is possible because the PSSH implies what?
What is that transformations of complex symbol structures can be represented by symbols and symbols structures?
These are the two phases of how neurons communicate; in a few words what does each entail?
What is electro-chemical signaling? Electro - is the action potential, an electrical impulse in the neuron; Chemical is synaptic transmission where chemical neurotransmitters cross the synapse.
Hubel and Weisel are known for their discovery of this
What is orientation-tuned neurons in the visual cortex
Fodor's account of modularity suggested these 4 characteristics of modules, and that that cognition must have this in addition to modules...
1) domain specificity; 2) informational encapsulation; 3) mandatory application; 4) speed; also has central processing
This is what gives the semantics of a formal system.
What is the interpretation of basic symbols?
These are the four features of the PSSH.
1) symbols are physical patterns; 2) can be combined to form complex symbol structures; 3) the PSS contains processes for manipulating symbols and complex symbol structures; 4)process for generating and transforming complex symbol structures can also be represented by symbols and symbol structures
This is the reason why Fodor states that modules are "informationally encapsulated."
What is because they are not affected by what goes on elsewhere in the mind?