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Introduction
Reading 1
| Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| Read Montague said our mind is the pattern of _____________ running on a special kind of machine : _____________. It's _________________ all the way up and all the way down. | This person said "Our mind is the pattern of information processing running on a special kind of machine: our brain. It's information processing all the way up and all the way down." |
| Gerald Edelman said "perhaps the most important general observation that can be made about the brain is that _____________ is the most important thing about it. The cerebral cortex contains _________ neurons and _______________ synapses. | This person said "Perhaps the most important general observation that can be made about the brain is that it's anatomy is the most important thing about it. The cerebral cortex contains 10 billion neurons and one million billion synapses." |
| Generally speaking, motor neurons are ___________ fibers and sensory neurons are ____________ fibers. | Generally speaking, _______ neurons are efferent fibers and _________ neurons are afferent fibers. |
| The nervous system uses sensory data and stored knowledge of the structure of the world to produce motor responses that yield ____________ | The nervous system uses ________ and _________ to produce motor responses that yield the highest possible inclusive fitness for the organism. |
| What is the body's information processing system? | The nervous system is the body's __________ __________ system |
| The mind is the ____________ carried out by the brain | I am the computations carried out by the brain |
| How does the brain's software differ from the software of a computer? | The brain's ____________ is physically stored in the physiological properties of the vast network of neurons and patterns of synapses. |
| Different regions of the brain are specialized for different functions thanks to the distinct _____ and _____ of their neurons. | Different regions of the brain are ______ for different functions thanks to the distinct physiology and connectivity of their neurons. |
| Define a reductionistic approach to studying the brain | According to this approach, we can understand the brain by taking it apart, understanding the pieces and putting it back together to understand how the whole system works. |
| What is the weakness of a reductionnist approach to studying the brain? | A weakness of this approach to studying the brain is that the complex properties of the whole might not be evident from the properties of the pieces. |
| What are Marr's three levels of analysis? | Computational level, repreentation and algorithm and hardware implementation are three levels of analysis that can be attributed to this neuroscientist |
| Define Marr's computational level of analysis in the context of the human brain | "What is the goal?"and "What is the logic behind this solution?" are questions that belong to this level of analysis. |
| Define Marr's algorithmic and representational level of analysis in the context of the human brain | "What are the inputs and outputs?" is a question that belong to this level of analysis. |
| Define Marr's hardware implementation level of analysis in the context of the human brain | "How can this representation be implemented physically?" is a question that belongs to this level of analysis. |
| Define the computational theory of mind | According to this theory of the mind, any computational machine ought to have a mind of it's own if it carries out the computations that replicate those that create our mind. |
| Since action potentials are all-or-none events, information must be encoded in their ________, _________ and ________. | In the body, information can be encoded through the timing, pattern and frequency of ____________ _____________. |
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