COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Mycin, Terry Winograd, Word Superiority Effect
1 Mar 2013
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People have no idea why they do what they do: example: electrically stimulating the brain to cause someone to do an action. Even though the action is initiated by a machine, people believe that they did that action by their own conscious will. 2: example: magnetic stimulation of the brain to cause someone to raise a certain nger. People favor decisions that are bene cial: example: mirror box - people put arms in a slot and look at a mirror to draw a straight line. They see a hand, but the hand is not actually theirs. Information processing theory: is a completely physical theory of the mind that suggests the brain is the hardware of a computer and the mind is the software. Problem solving consists of starting in one position with a goal to get to another. There are a variety of intermediate steps before we can get to the ultimate goal and we learn through trial-and-error.
