CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Moral Agency, Irobot, Existenz

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: CGSC 1001
• Professor: Jim Davies

Document Summary

Lecture 13: cognitive science in film: transient global anmesia: Has short term memories but can"t turn those into long term memories. People who has this problem can learn new procedual memories but not declarative memories: memento: Able to learn procedural but not declarative memories. People who get their hippocampus lesioned now are warned and can prepare. Can remember what you said before, say the exactly same thing over and over again. The things that we do is function of who we are in the environment we"re in, if u stay in the same in environment and memory doesn"t change -> behave like this. Ex: you found a useful idea to write in ur book. After u write it down, u realized that u"ve written this same idea 6 months ago: inside out: Basic emotions: fear, disgust, joy, sadness, anger, surprise. You"ve got a lot of forces in ur mind. Different characters in your head fighting for control.