RHETOR 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sensory System, Universal Turing Machine, Computer
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Essay should include arguments, differences, assumption of various authors. Use 1 author to organize the other ones as foils. 8 questions, 2 choices, don"t choose same authors (only 1 crossover text) Leroi-gourhan"s exteriorization: separation of gesture (action) from program (neurological capacity for generating actions and responses), linked with interiorization. Program in humans comes from somewhere else (other humans, culture) Not present in animals, only regulated by genes, gesture and program integrated. Imagination (combinations of sensory ideas and memories) vs. intuition as true. Descartes: mind as (1) sensory system of information and (2) site of pure intellect judgment. Hobbes: like descartes, body as machine, unlike descartes, there is no pure intellect as foundation of rational judgment, only sensations and combinations of sensations. Sense= organ of body vibration, through nerve, to brain, produces idea fancy in mind. Memory: ideas from present and past can connect to produce new ideas and. Learning = repetition of experiences connected with other experiences.