Week 12
According to dualism, the person has a mind or soul that (choose the BEST answer)
A. Was created by God
B. is non-physical and immaterial
C. continues to exist after death of the body
D. is entirely physical
B. is non-physical and immaterial
According to Dennett's response, the knowledge argument is question begging because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have all the physical knowledge that Mary is said to have.
True
False
True
Which of the following best defines the view known as (physical) determinism?
Human behavior and choices are never the result of free will.
Human behavior and choices are sometimes the result of our will determining our behavior.
Everything that will ever happen in the future, including human behavior and choices, is entirely determined by the will of an all powerful God.
The state of the universe and the laws of nature at any time together guarantee everything that will happen in the failure , including human and choices.
Human behavior and choices are sometimes the result of our will determining our behavior.
Which part of a computer that Turing describes is responsible for making sure that the 'rules' or 'instructions' in the program are followed correctly and performed in the right order?
The executive unit
The memory
The store
The control
The control
In the passages from Montague, Gazzaniga, and Cashmore seem to give examples of scientists assuming which conception of free will?
The modest conception
The ambitious conception
The supernatural conception
The supernatural conception
According to Mele, our experience provides us with initial evidence for the existence of modest free will.
True
False
True
Which of the following views is thought to give the best explanation of the correlations we've observed between brain and mind?
Mysterionism
Dualism
Physicalism
Idealism
Physicalism
According to Turing, if a machine could pass his test then...
it is reasonable to believe that the computer has an immaterial soul.
it is reasonable to believe that the computer has a mind and is capable of thought.
it is NOT reasonable to believe that the computer is intelligent.
it is NOT reasonable to believe that the computer has a mind and is capable of thought.
it is reasonable to believe that the computer has a mind and is capable of thought.
Which of the following best captures the conclusion of the knowledge argument?
Physicalism is true
Human beings have souls.
Human beings do not have souls
Physicalism is false
Physicalism is false
Professor Kagan describes his 'mirror' example as an attempt to imagine which of the following scenarios?
A scenario where you do not exist
A scenario where your mind exists but your body does not exist
A scenario where your body exists, but it is now invisible
A scenario where your body exists but your mind does not exist
A scenario where your body exists, but it is now invisible
In the Turing Test, what evidence does the interrogator have for trying to decide who is and who is not the computer?
The answers given to the questions that they (the interrogator) ask
The way that the voices of each subject sound
Religious texts
The visual appearance of each of the subjects
The answers given to the questions that they (the interrogator) ask
According to the ability response we just considered in the video, when Mary leaves the B&W room and sees red for the first time she gains:
knowledge by acquantance
No form of knowledge
Know that
Know how
Know how
Occams Razor is an epistemological principle which holds that:
Other things being equal, a more complex explanation is more likely to be true.
Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is more likely to be true.
The universe is a simple machine.
Simpler explanations are always the true explanations.
The universe is a complex machine.
Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is more likely to be true.
Which of the following statements would Mele agree with:
The neuroscience studies prove that our brains work deterministically
Our experience provides us with evidence of deep openness
Ambitious free will has been ruled out by science.
Our experience provides us with evidence of deep openness
Which of the following statements would Mele agree with:
The neuroscience studies prove that our brains work deterministically
Our experience provides us with evidence of deep openness.
Ambitious free will has been ruled out by science.
Our experience provides us with evidence of deep openness.