01:830:305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deductive Reasoning, Validity, Punched Tape
20 Apr 2016
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What is a machine? : a machine is a process consisting entirely of physical, material, a homonculus is an imaginary man inside the head (means miniature human, if your theory os cognition relies on a homonculus an intelligent component than that is cheating, in cognitive psychology, we seek to banish the homonculus, the goal is to have a miracle free theory in physics, in psychology we want to have a homunculus free theory! George boole: an investigation of the laws of thoughts (1854: the whole idea behind cognitive psych is that thoughts have laws, he was one of the most important people to say that, in algebra, we can make statements both numbers that are true regardless of the specific values of the numbers, x+x=2x (x can mean any number, can prove its true by rules of algebra, booles proposed to fi the same thin with proposition instead of numbers.
