COG250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: General Problem Solver, Combinatorial Explosion, Representativeness Heuristic
30 Nov 2016
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Important connections between memory and problem solving (mary potter) Said that there was an interconnection between problem solving and memory. Core of cognition is intelligence (satisfying the n. i with respect to complex cognition). Intelligence: understood as the capacity for being a general problem solver, such that if you (cid:272)ould (cid:373)ake a (cid:862)s(cid:373)art(cid:863) ge(cid:374)eral pro(cid:271)le(cid:373) sol(cid:448)er, (cid:455)ou (cid:449)ould ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)reated a. i. Prof vervaeke added the interconnection problem in cog sci (memory-ps-categorization) General problem solver entity or system that can solve a wide variety of problems (a complex concatenation) in an equally wide variety of domains. Ex: watson is not a wide problem solver (ai that played jeopardy can only play jeopardy) Special purpose problem solver for solving a specific problem. E(cid:454): (cid:272)a(cid:374) ope(cid:374)er (cid:894)(cid:374)e(cid:272)essar(cid:455) for sol(cid:448)i(cid:374)g the pro(cid:271)le(cid:373), (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t do a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g (cid:373)ore(cid:895) Can opener --- > dog ----- > watson ------- > humans. The goal is to satisfy the n. i for defining a general problem solver.
