Hernad Istvan vizsagakerdesei

Kedves Kollegak, itt vannak Hernad Istvan vizsgakerdesei. Remelem, mindekihez kiobejut a halozatokon. Istvan email cime: harnad(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk Sok sikert Pleh Csaba Answer 1 question out of 8 of the 9 groups. Answers should be no longer than one page (~200-250 words) long. Answers should clearly explain concepts and issues to someone who does not already know them. Do not write as if trying to prove that you know to someone who knows more. Write to explain clearly what you know to someone who knows less but who can immediately discern whether or not you understand what you are talking about or you are not making sense, or just manipulating symbols... 1: What is the difference between proximal and distal causes in evolution? What is the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness? What is the "Blind Watchmaker"? How can evolution help explain cognition? 2: What is the difference between syntax and semantics? What is the Poverty of the Stimulus? What is wrong with Skinner's explanation of language learning? What is the Symbol Grounding Problem? What is the problem of "vanishing intersections"? 3: What is the evidence that neural nets are like the brain? What is the difference between a neural net and a symbol system? What is Pinker's critique of neural nets? What is Minsky's critique of perceptrons? What is Pylyshyn's critique of neural nets? 4: What is computation? What is an algorithm? What is a Turing Machine? Why does the shape of a symbol need to be arbitrary? What are "Granny Objections" to computation? Give examples. 5: What is the difference between an image and a symbol? What is Analog Processing? What is the Homunculus Problem? Who won the Imagery Debate? Why? What is Pylyshyn's critique of mental imagery? Discuss: A picture is worth a thousand words Discuss: "This is not a pipe" 7: What is a retinotopic map? What is the difference between a mental image and a brain image? What questions can brain images answer that behaviour alone cannot? How can you find out "how" from "when" and "where"? 8: Why is there a problem about consciousness as a cause? What is the Turing Test? What is the mind/body problem? What is the other-minds problem? What is the difference between movement and telekinesis? Are we machines? 9: What is wrong with introspection as a way to study the mind? What needs to be explained about the mind? Give examples. What is reverse engineering? What is the difference between cognitivism and behaviourism?