COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Psychology, Marvin Minsky, Turing Machine
15 Oct 2014
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Cogs100: introduction to cognitive science - lecture 2: interdisciplinary perspective (the story of the six blind men elephant) Psychology, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, artificial intelligence and neuroscience all play important roles in explaining computations. All these genres together give you a complete view of the mind. Look at all perspectives not just a single one. How the mind operates how we think. Procedure series of actions that accomplish something. Broad categories of mental operations include sensations, perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning, and problem solving. Representations something in the mental world that can stand for something in the physical world. Structure, concepts or activity that stands for something. Realized in an information-processing system like a person or computer. Have content and stand for something else known as referent object that the representation refers to. Interpreted by the system itself or by some other system. Classical view of representation symbols are used to represent things (cave drawings)
