CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Synesthesia, Reductionism, Roger Penrose
27 Feb 2016
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Fijian food taboos: food taboos for pregnant and lactating women in fiji selectively target the most toxic marine species, effectively reducing a woman"s chance of fish poisoning by 30% during pregnancy and. Learning at the biological level: synapses are the spaces between neurons, where communications happen, they get more efficient with repeated use. This is the hebb theory : neurons that fire together, wire together. Yet: some people believe (roger penrose) that quantum effects are directly related to consciousness, but most cognitive scientists do not take this position seriously. How do we know if a level is legit: if it successfully makes causal predictions using the ontology of that level. Ontology: a set of things said to exist. Scholars dismiss levels above them: because they believe the regularities found at higher level are or, form of reductionism will be deductible from lower-level regularities.
