Chapter 2. ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
... evolution from biology without taking culture into account. However, culture is a huge mass of socially transmitted preferences, attitudes, knowledge, concepts and so forth. Language, religion, political opinions, dress customs, and many other things are learned. Among all these parts of culture, te ...
... evolution from biology without taking culture into account. However, culture is a huge mass of socially transmitted preferences, attitudes, knowledge, concepts and so forth. Language, religion, political opinions, dress customs, and many other things are learned. Among all these parts of culture, te ...
Why Generality Is Key to Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
... As we will show, these different foci must have important ramifications for the type of methods and approaches studied, as well as for what cognition and intelligence mean in the respective research context: While standard AI can confine itself to the modelling and study of individual mental capacit ...
... As we will show, these different foci must have important ramifications for the type of methods and approaches studied, as well as for what cognition and intelligence mean in the respective research context: While standard AI can confine itself to the modelling and study of individual mental capacit ...
Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition
... even Worthington G. Smith (1894: 3) was not beyond such fancy, penning, “It is clear that man must have existed for thousands of years as a being incapable of designing and making stone weapons and tools of geometrically correct form.” Since then, tying supposition like this to the archaeological re ...
... even Worthington G. Smith (1894: 3) was not beyond such fancy, penning, “It is clear that man must have existed for thousands of years as a being incapable of designing and making stone weapons and tools of geometrically correct form.” Since then, tying supposition like this to the archaeological re ...
Suggested Readings
... perhaps less dangerous setting than real life. It allows the experiences to be assimilated and a perceptual picture built of the consequence of performing activities in that world. This later allows more effective replay of those experiences and adjustment of them in new situations. Social Learning ...
... perhaps less dangerous setting than real life. It allows the experiences to be assimilated and a perceptual picture built of the consequence of performing activities in that world. This later allows more effective replay of those experiences and adjustment of them in new situations. Social Learning ...
social interaction
... Exchange theorists argue all social relations involve literal giveand-take of valued resources, such as attention, pleasure, approval, prestige, information, and money • Rational choice theory Focuses on way interacting people weigh benefits and costs of interaction Suggests interacting people ...
... Exchange theorists argue all social relations involve literal giveand-take of valued resources, such as attention, pleasure, approval, prestige, information, and money • Rational choice theory Focuses on way interacting people weigh benefits and costs of interaction Suggests interacting people ...
social interaction
... Exchange theorists argue all social relations involve literal giveand-take of valued resources, such as attention, pleasure, approval, prestige, information, and money • Rational choice theory Focuses on way interacting people weigh benefits and costs of interaction Suggests interacting people ...
... Exchange theorists argue all social relations involve literal giveand-take of valued resources, such as attention, pleasure, approval, prestige, information, and money • Rational choice theory Focuses on way interacting people weigh benefits and costs of interaction Suggests interacting people ...
Courtney
... natural concept (mental meaning) in terms of another (linguistic meaning)” – top of p. 1038. - In fact, a theory of mental meaning that is underwritten by a theory of linguistic meaning will be circular, because it presupposes a theory of meaning (which applies to words). Furthermore, there is evide ...
... natural concept (mental meaning) in terms of another (linguistic meaning)” – top of p. 1038. - In fact, a theory of mental meaning that is underwritten by a theory of linguistic meaning will be circular, because it presupposes a theory of meaning (which applies to words). Furthermore, there is evide ...
Cognitive psychology - Wikipedia, the free
... ...the term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations... Given such a sweeping de ...
... ...the term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations... Given such a sweeping de ...
Machine Intelligence
... Brain basis of consciousness Conscious cognition is close to attention, but not the same. You can tell people – please pay attention but not - please be conscious. You may be aware (conscious) of reading this text but you may be not aware of the touch of your chair, gravitational forces, back ...
... Brain basis of consciousness Conscious cognition is close to attention, but not the same. You can tell people – please pay attention but not - please be conscious. You may be aware (conscious) of reading this text but you may be not aware of the touch of your chair, gravitational forces, back ...
3. Final - Psychology
... Darwinism changed the view of psychology with his new interpretation of evolution. Evolution has been with us since the Greeks but Darwin comes up his with own idea. Evolution works by natural selection: A key concept in his theory. Because more members of a species are born than environmental resou ...
... Darwinism changed the view of psychology with his new interpretation of evolution. Evolution has been with us since the Greeks but Darwin comes up his with own idea. Evolution works by natural selection: A key concept in his theory. Because more members of a species are born than environmental resou ...
Chapter1 (new window)
... Behavioral Responses (Step 5-7) • Experience and Action – Perception occurs as a conscious experience. – Recognition occurs when an object is placed in a category giving it meaning. – Action occurs when the perceiver initiates motor activity in response to recognition. ...
... Behavioral Responses (Step 5-7) • Experience and Action – Perception occurs as a conscious experience. – Recognition occurs when an object is placed in a category giving it meaning. – Action occurs when the perceiver initiates motor activity in response to recognition. ...
Towards a New Approach in Social Simulations
... enacting emergent tags. Linguistic abilities encompass not only recognizing and describing features but also expressing deliberate relations [34]. In other words, reflexive action is not limited to the symbolic affirmation of shared social classifications and standard rules that regulate social rela ...
... enacting emergent tags. Linguistic abilities encompass not only recognizing and describing features but also expressing deliberate relations [34]. In other words, reflexive action is not limited to the symbolic affirmation of shared social classifications and standard rules that regulate social rela ...
Artificial Consciousness
... If Strong AI is true, then there is a program for Chinese such that if any computing system runs that program, that system thereby comes to understand Chinese I could run a program for Chinese without thereby coming to understand Chinese. Therefore Strong AI is false. ...
... If Strong AI is true, then there is a program for Chinese such that if any computing system runs that program, that system thereby comes to understand Chinese I could run a program for Chinese without thereby coming to understand Chinese. Therefore Strong AI is false. ...
Some Approaches to Knowledge Acquisition
... treatment plans in general, it can do more than a knowledge engineer who lacks these kinds of details. Learning from Examples. Induction can be an important method of acquiring new knowledge when libraries of previously solved cases already exist. Because such learning is itself a knowledge-based ac ...
... treatment plans in general, it can do more than a knowledge engineer who lacks these kinds of details. Learning from Examples. Induction can be an important method of acquiring new knowledge when libraries of previously solved cases already exist. Because such learning is itself a knowledge-based ac ...
Humanist Sociology
... the time made popular by the likes of John B. Watson. For the pragmatists, how the mind comes to know cannot be separated from how the mind actually develops. George Herbert Mead ([1934] 1974) exemplifies the pragmatists’ view concerning the development of mind. Consciousness and will arise from pro ...
... the time made popular by the likes of John B. Watson. For the pragmatists, how the mind comes to know cannot be separated from how the mind actually develops. George Herbert Mead ([1934] 1974) exemplifies the pragmatists’ view concerning the development of mind. Consciousness and will arise from pro ...
4 Instructor presentation How can problem
... used to solve it are programmed. The program apparently runs from start to finish in the same way every time. Does the water jug program demonstrate artificial intelligence or is it no different than any algorithmic computer program? 11. What kind of search is employed in the water jug problem? 12. ...
... used to solve it are programmed. The program apparently runs from start to finish in the same way every time. Does the water jug program demonstrate artificial intelligence or is it no different than any algorithmic computer program? 11. What kind of search is employed in the water jug problem? 12. ...
test prep
... provide thorough answers for the following objectives without looking at any resources. Any additional material covered in your assigned reading and notes should also be reviewed. ...
... provide thorough answers for the following objectives without looking at any resources. Any additional material covered in your assigned reading and notes should also be reviewed. ...
Cognitive Psychology
... study of cognitive development) • CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY (the study and implementation of cognitive therapy) • EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (the study of cognition in the classroom) • COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (the study of the cognitive processes related to brain functioning) • And practically every other area ...
... study of cognitive development) • CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY (the study and implementation of cognitive therapy) • EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (the study of cognition in the classroom) • COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE (the study of the cognitive processes related to brain functioning) • And practically every other area ...
Modeling Human-Level Intelligence by Integrated - CEUR
... In Section 2, two major problems that are connected to knowledge representation and HLI were mentioned: first, the profusion of knowledge and second, the fact that human beings are able to dynamically adapt background knowledge on-the-fly. We sketch some ideas in this subsection, primarily addressin ...
... In Section 2, two major problems that are connected to knowledge representation and HLI were mentioned: first, the profusion of knowledge and second, the fact that human beings are able to dynamically adapt background knowledge on-the-fly. We sketch some ideas in this subsection, primarily addressin ...
What Is Artificial General Intelligence? Clarifying The Goal For
... frame and a lesser amount of effort rather than a longer or more difficult path. Daniel Oblinger (Oblinger 2008) has gone so far as to posit that it is possible that the majority of the work currently being done is unnecessary and can, and quite possibly will, be avoided by working instead on the bo ...
... frame and a lesser amount of effort rather than a longer or more difficult path. Daniel Oblinger (Oblinger 2008) has gone so far as to posit that it is possible that the majority of the work currently being done is unnecessary and can, and quite possibly will, be avoided by working instead on the bo ...
Notes for Consilience
... coercion that was to plague the next two centuries…” “…The decline of the Enlightenment was hastened not by just tyrants who used it for justification but by rising and often valid intellectual opposition. Its dream of a world made orderly and fulfilling by free intellect had seemed at first indestr ...
... coercion that was to plague the next two centuries…” “…The decline of the Enlightenment was hastened not by just tyrants who used it for justification but by rising and often valid intellectual opposition. Its dream of a world made orderly and fulfilling by free intellect had seemed at first indestr ...
Mindshaping
... Theoretical stances in the sciences are often motivated by background metaphors that are seldom defended explicitly. For example, the idea that the universe is a blind mechanism replaced the idea that it is a collection of agencies hierarchically organized by a supernatural power during the scientif ...
... Theoretical stances in the sciences are often motivated by background metaphors that are seldom defended explicitly. For example, the idea that the universe is a blind mechanism replaced the idea that it is a collection of agencies hierarchically organized by a supernatural power during the scientif ...
(2005). Integrating Language and Cognition
... Founders of “symbolic AI” believed that by using “symbolic” mathematical notations they would penetrate into the mystery of the mind – But mathematical symbols are just notations (signs) – Not psychic processes ...
... Founders of “symbolic AI” believed that by using “symbolic” mathematical notations they would penetrate into the mystery of the mind – But mathematical symbols are just notations (signs) – Not psychic processes ...
Cognitive Modeling - Introduction
... Analytical methods: analysing cognitive processes with the goal of formalisation and identification of regularities and constraints Methods of humanities (philosophy, linguistics) and mathematics (formal sciences) e.g., what type of language is learnable from what information with which effort Empir ...
... Analytical methods: analysing cognitive processes with the goal of formalisation and identification of regularities and constraints Methods of humanities (philosophy, linguistics) and mathematics (formal sciences) e.g., what type of language is learnable from what information with which effort Empir ...