Here's the review list of the core concepts. If you have questions on any of them, skywrite, and email me the URL and I'll respond -- until the day I distribute the exam.
Abstraction, Invariants Adaptive Advantage of Language Altruism, Selfishness, Kinship Algorithms Analog/Digital (Dynamic/Symbolic) Artificial Life Simulations Behaviorism Brain's Relevance Categorical Perception Categorization, Category Learning Causality Certainty, Uncertainty Chinese Room Argument Church/Turing Thesis (Strong and Weak) Chunking Cognition Cognitive Technology Compression/Separation Computation Computationalism, Strong AI Consciousness/Feeling Dictionary-Go-Round Discrimination/Categorization Distal/Proximal Stimulus in Evolution Distributed Cognition Dynamical Systems EEA (Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness) Equivalence, Strong & Weak Evolution Evolution of Language Evolutionary Psychology Explanation Extended Mind Explanatory Gap Explicit/Implicit Cognition Free Will Funes the Memorious Gesture/Speech Grounding Hard/Easy Problem Hearsay Heterophenomenology Homunculus Problem Icon/Symbol Implementation-Independence Implicit/Explicit Learning Induction/Instruction Information Introspection Language Meaning Mental Rotation Mental States Minimal Grounding Set Mind-Reading Mind/Body Problem Mirror Neurons Neural Nets Other-Minds Problem Pantomime/Pointing/Propositions Poverty of the Stimulus Positive/Negative Evidence Proposition/Predication Psychokinesis (Telekinesis) Reverse Engineering Robotics Sensorimotor Affordances Searle’s Periscope Show/Tell Supervised/Unsupervised Learning Symbol Grounding Problem Symbol System Syntax/Semantics Turing Machine Turing Test t1/T2/T3/T4/ Ugly Duckling Theorem Uncomplemented Categories Underdetermination/Overdetermination Universal Grammar (UG) & Ordinary Grammar Vanishing Intersections Whorf/Sapir Hypothesis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7plu5-nYhc Obviously this company isn't the first to make meat and animal product alternatives, but what is interesting is they are using computer learning algorithms to determine the best way to mimic the structure and taste of meat and animal products.
I thought I would share it because it relates to different parts of the course material quite well (and it's pretty cool).
I hope we don't have to wait till we can duplicate the exact taste of meat before people stop torturing animals for the taste. It would be a really sad testimony to our decency if we were ready to continue their agony till our taste was fully satisfied (and I simply can't believe that people could be that cruel and selfish).
But I can say with Cartesian certainty that the tastes available eating "only" vegan are not only enough to keep everyone happy, but once our omnivore metabolism gets the message that it is no longer consuming animal protein (about 8 months, in my case) it changes our tastebuds and makes herbivore food taste infinitely better than when we were carnivores (and that includes vegetarians, who are still eating animal protein). So it is our own metabolism that is the best at providing the taste. (But while your system is still in carnivore mode, you have no way of knowing that -- and that's why kids don't want to eat their vegetables: while they are eating meat, they hardly have any taste, and are hardly needed.) Try it -- but not for the taste: for the mercy.
Hello everyone! Two small clarifications I would love to have before we take a stab at the final.
Firstly, and very minor: I feel like I always mess up the proximal/distal evolution distinction. For example, would the distal cause of our propensity for sugar eating be the need for high-energy foods, whereas the proximal would be.. just a craving?
Secondly: I was hoping for a brief explanation of the exact relationship between symbol grounding and categorization. I feel like I have an intuition of how they're interconnected, but I really struggle to put it into words.
Hi Adrienne, yup, excatly for distal/proximal (but it's not on the final!).
The symbol grounding problem is the problem of connecting symbols (words) to their referents. Being able to categorize their referents when you see, hear, feel, taste them is the solution. The rest can be verbal combinations of grounded words, defining more and more abstract categories.
Here's the review list of the core concepts. If you have questions on any of them, skywrite, and email me the URL and I'll respond -- until the day I distribute the exam.
ReplyDeleteAbstraction, Invariants
Adaptive Advantage of Language
Altruism, Selfishness, Kinship
Algorithms
Analog/Digital (Dynamic/Symbolic)
Artificial Life Simulations
Behaviorism
Brain's Relevance
Categorical Perception
Categorization, Category Learning
Causality
Certainty, Uncertainty
Chinese Room Argument
Church/Turing Thesis (Strong and Weak)
Chunking
Cognition
Cognitive Technology
Compression/Separation
Computation
Computationalism, Strong AI
Consciousness/Feeling
Dictionary-Go-Round
Discrimination/Categorization
Distal/Proximal Stimulus in Evolution
Distributed Cognition
Dynamical Systems
EEA (Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness)
Equivalence, Strong & Weak
Evolution
Evolution of Language
Evolutionary Psychology
Explanation
Extended Mind
Explanatory Gap
Explicit/Implicit Cognition
Free Will
Funes the Memorious
Gesture/Speech
Grounding
Hard/Easy Problem
Hearsay
Heterophenomenology
Homunculus Problem
Icon/Symbol
Implementation-Independence
Implicit/Explicit Learning
Induction/Instruction
Information
Introspection
Language
Meaning
Mental Rotation
Mental States
Minimal Grounding Set
Mind-Reading
Mind/Body Problem
Mirror Neurons
Neural Nets
Other-Minds Problem
Pantomime/Pointing/Propositions
Poverty of the Stimulus
Positive/Negative Evidence
Proposition/Predication
Psychokinesis (Telekinesis)
Reverse Engineering
Robotics
Sensorimotor Affordances
Searle’s Periscope
Show/Tell
Supervised/Unsupervised Learning
Symbol Grounding Problem
Symbol System
Syntax/Semantics
Turing Machine
Turing Test
t1/T2/T3/T4/
Ugly Duckling Theorem
Uncomplemented Categories
Underdetermination/Overdetermination
Universal Grammar (UG) & Ordinary Grammar
Vanishing Intersections
Whorf/Sapir Hypothesis
Hi all,
ReplyDeleteI came across this piece today on Al-Jazeera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7plu5-nYhc Obviously this company isn't the first to make meat and animal product alternatives, but what is interesting is they are using computer learning algorithms to determine the best way to mimic the structure and taste of meat and animal products.
I thought I would share it because it relates to different parts of the course material quite well (and it's pretty cool).
I hope we don't have to wait till we can duplicate the exact taste of meat before people stop torturing animals for the taste. It would be a really sad testimony to our decency if we were ready to continue their agony till our taste was fully satisfied (and I simply can't believe that people could be that cruel and selfish).
DeleteBut I can say with Cartesian certainty that the tastes available eating "only" vegan are not only enough to keep everyone happy, but once our omnivore metabolism gets the message that it is no longer consuming animal protein (about 8 months, in my case) it changes our tastebuds and makes herbivore food taste infinitely better than when we were carnivores (and that includes vegetarians, who are still eating animal protein). So it is our own metabolism that is the best at providing the taste. (But while your system is still in carnivore mode, you have no way of knowing that -- and that's why kids don't want to eat their vegetables: while they are eating meat, they hardly have any taste, and are hardly needed.) Try it -- but not for the taste: for the mercy.
Hello everyone! Two small clarifications I would love to have before we take a stab at the final.
ReplyDeleteFirstly, and very minor: I feel like I always mess up the proximal/distal evolution distinction. For example, would the distal cause of our propensity for sugar eating be the need for high-energy foods, whereas the proximal would be.. just a craving?
Secondly: I was hoping for a brief explanation of the exact relationship between symbol grounding and categorization. I feel like I have an intuition of how they're interconnected, but I really struggle to put it into words.
Thanks!
Adrienne
Hi Adrienne, yup, excatly for distal/proximal (but it's not on the final!).
DeleteThe symbol grounding problem is the problem of connecting symbols (words) to their referents. Being able to categorize their referents when you see, hear, feel, taste them is the solution. The rest can be verbal combinations of grounded words, defining more and more abstract categories.