LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Optical Illusion, Tabula Rasa, Noam Chomsky

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Ling 1010 lecture 7 - nature and nurture across different. Modularity - the idea that a system consists of separate independent parts. The classical approach: serialism (chomsky: one thing after another, one computation after another. Functionalism calculating device that has some innate parts: modular view: no; instead, we must think of the mind as a system of systems. The connectionist approach: parallelism: multiple computations at the same time. Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon in which simulation of one sensory system leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory system: examples, perceiving letters or numbers in different colors. Tones perceived as colors: hearing a word feels like a touch on the skin. For example, parental love is a system: some people love their parents more than others do. Those people"s parental love system is larger and stronger than those that others have: phrenology turned out to be a hoax.

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