PHL 131 Lecture 20: PHL 131 Lecture 20

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 131
• Professor: Abbot

Document Summary

A subset of mental activity that involves working with mental representations, planning and executing behaviors, and the coordination of cognitive resources. Basic visual perception, memory, consolidation, and coordination of sensory motor activity are sophisticated mental activities but are not considered to be thinking. Angry birds (not sophisticated) vs. chess (analytic) One involves fast sensory motion based problem solving and one involves analytic thinking. System 1: faster, intuitive, evolutionarily primitive brain structures, present in non human species, ex/ catch a fly ball, playing angry birds, unobserved behavior not explicitly remembered, underlying system 1. System 2: slower, reason based, evolutionarily recent brain structures (prefrontal cortex, present in humans, more conscious decision careful and explicit weighing of evidence. In the smart phone era allow for a lot of multitasking costs to this. People think they are good at it but there is always a cost.