PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Extravehicular Activity, Biological Neural Network, Sensory Neuron
9 May 2016
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The matrix problem: (cid:61607) maybe the world is not actually as we see it (cid:61607) are you living in a computer simulation by nick bolsom. The matrix: the brain constructs your world, heuristics and prior knowledge: basic math question about and ball but so many people got it wrong. Why: our prior knowledge shapes how we look at the problem. Example of teacher who used top-down processing (all of our prior knowledge acts as a filter to how we interpret stimuli) and made judgment about mother. Even though it is just a drawing, we assume it represents a checker board which has alternating shades of dark and gray. Because of this assumption, we think that a and b are two different colors although they are not. This is an example of the brain constructing our world: we use a process called hebbian learning which provides a mechanism for neural coding.
