PSYCH 120A Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Midbrain, Axon Terminal, Thalamus
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Turing test: can test if a machine is thinking. If the machine can pass the task then we are going to categorize the machine as thinking no matter how we define thinking. What matters is the process in which the behavior arises. There is a difference between what is happening out in the world, and what. Representation: a set of objects that stand for another set of objects by virtue of having the same causal relational structure. is going on in your mind. Processes: operations that transform one representation into another. Mental representation: are formed in the mind, make is possible to think about objects/events in their absence. Are reliably activated by objects/ events in the world. When a neuron (cid:498)receives input(cid:499), neurochemicals are binding with receptors on the the cell membrane. Ion channels associated with those receptors open or close affecting the ease with which the ions flow through.
