PHIL 210 : Reading notes March 24.docx

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

Document Summary

Children"s physical reasoning: danger in tendency to accept descriptions of b as mental entities that are explicitly accessed and used in the production of behavior, certain physical principles are observed, alternative proposal: infant"s understanding of object permanence is essentially practical, infants observe reappearance of occluded objects, this strengthens the connection between two groups of neurons, understood in terms of persistence of object representations: implicit understanding, recurrent network model, pattern of activation in the input units, pattern of activation in the hidden units at the previous temporal stage, balance beam problem, children are the balance beam, like tower of hanoi, different stages, the whole model relies on input and distance units.