COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Decision-Making, Shrdlu, Marvin Minsky

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: COGS 100
• Professor: Mark Blair

Document Summary

Ethical decisions are like any other decisions: overall notes mind - conscious memory critical what doesn"t have a mind. Perception: nature of experience, seeing is believe but believing is seeing, our perception is incomplete, constructive in nature, influenced by, previous experience in ways we are not aware. Symbolic systems: embedded in our body ie. a baby choosing a not b (b/c of motor movements not their knowledge) "person a: how do you tell the robot what to do. Person b: i don"t, i turn it on and it simply does what it is programmed to do!: knowledge an & reasoning important. Connectionsism: termites, they randomly do what they are programmed to create a very sophisticated model (their homes, not everything is explicitly programmed, but is built up complexity by lower-level components (self-organizing systems) That manipulating memory can influence perceptual judgements and manipulating perception can influence memory judgements: they are intertwined.