COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Machine Head, Task Analysis, Implicit Memory
15 Nov 2012
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Language is recursive, perform algorithms to transform sentences, born with innate grammatical rules. Skinner - stimulus and response is how we learn language and meaning. Break a large task into simpler tasks (same with systems) Modarity of mind - mind is broken up into different modules, have own locations and functions, didn"t talk much to rest of brain - motor skills. Fodor: higher cog skills not modular, but other things are. Central processing, integration of info from many sources. Infinitely long input tape (machine table), which is both input and rules, machine head, ability to perform operations, has set of symbols. Universal - can perform any process of any specialized turing machine, can decode other symbol patterns. Systematic process, set of finite steps to move from a defined input to an output. The ability to problem solve and the existence of a pss. Pss - symbols have both abstract and physical parts, can be represented, has a structure.
