NEW333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nelson Goodman, Social Code, Combinatorial Explosion
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Try to generate plausible construct to facilitate powerful bridges of insight between. Many independent lines of evidence that there is a problem (convergence) Then give an account of how we can give a naturalistic explanation of this. Create a plausible construct that is naturalized. The more intelligent is the more powerful your cognition is. We try to test intelligence by our capacity to solve problems. Many different disciplines try to explain this: neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, machine learning. We need to analyze formalize and mechanize cognition. Intelligence is the capacity to be a general problem solver (gps) Don"t burn down the house to cook food: representation of the goal state --> state we want to be in ie. don"t want to be hungry. Representation of the search space (all the possible courses of action) A problem solution is any state that will transform the initial state is the goal state while obeying the path constraints.