CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Douglas Hofstadter, Feather Boa, Tardigrade
16 Feb 2018
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Blood: a lot going on intuitively as we solve these kinds of problems, fluid intelligence. Pattern recognition: faces: recognize things that may or may not be there, cars as an example -> intentionally have a design that have a face in them. Instinct to find meaning in things: family car looks more friendly in the front, etc. Patterns of relations: reasoning about corresponding parts of things, analogy gets more specific -> once you identify that thing, lock it into a pattern, higher-order relationship -> now we start to naturally plug into other parts. More than simple similarity: which is a feather boa more like, thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out the features (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed to, (cid:449)e pro(cid:271)s have a gut reaction. Key features of pants: what is the essential feature of pants and how does this apply to something with eight legs/feet. If tardigrades (cid:449)ord pa(cid:374)ts, (cid:449)ould they (cid:449)ear the(cid:373) like .
