COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mind Machine, Nominalism, Cognitive Science
15 Oct 2016
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Software of computer: mind exist in connected, expanded networks. The ability to acquire literacy is born with, but we acquire literacy through culture: brain: neuroscience. Can machines have human minds: language: linguistics, culture: (anthropology) sociology, philosophy: philosophers of science have done a lot of work for cogsci. These levels are causally interacting with each other. How to get the disciplines to talk to each other. Weakest version: cog sci is just the name for a set: generic nominalism: cognitive science is genus. As long as belong to one discipline, you are cognitive scientist. Talk and respect each other, have some minor insights, do not alter each other: problem: what happens in one discipline might transfer to other disciplines. Cog sci create vocabs/frameworks that will bridge all the disciplines. What"s the goal? (foreshado(cid:449): hole in the scientific (cid:449)orld (cid:448)ie(cid:449): (cid:449)e are not in it, (cid:449)e don"t ha(cid:448)e scientific explanation for how do we generate scientific explanation. )
