PHIL 210 : COGS 200 January 30.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 210
• Professor: Ray Jennings

Document Summary

Problems with central processing: we don"t seem to have central processing, just modules, hundreds of thousands, each developed to solve specific problems, evolved over the pleistocene period (we are in the next one, the holocene period) 11,000 years ago it ended, theory that we developed language in africa, and spread out after the ice age ended (along with animals that humans hunted migrating out of africa) You have to turn over 4 instead of 5 to see if a rule is violated: conjunction fallacy, linda bank teller example, this condition has less conditions to follow: two claims conjoined are harder to follow than one, people are not got at probabilistic reasoning, base rate neglect, people base their ratings based on descriptions of subjects and not on statistical probability, 2% is the answer.