PSYC2241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anthropomorphism, Habituation, Fundamental Attribution Error
24 Nov 2017
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Having a mind vs. not having a mind. Objects - understood in terms of where they have been (causal past) Agents - understood in terms of where they are going (goal future) Launching or apparent causation (white circle hitting yellow circle) When something starts moving by itself (self-motion), then that is a pretty good cue to us that it is alive. Robots moving on their own startles us for this reason. Equifinality or goal-directedness points to the idea that it has a mind. Even if there is something in its way, it still gets there. Probing how it is the understanding that some things have minds and others don"t forms in babies. How long babies look at things - will look a long time at things they find surprising. Show them something over and over until they are bored and then show them something different. If they look at it longer, you know they perceive it differently.
