Lecture 23 Cog Sci Most Important Thing in the World

Question 1

young poeple

Answer 1

70% want to make the world a better place

Question 2

The worlds problems getting better

Answer 2

The problems in decline 
War and Torture
Crime
Starvation
Disease
Short life span
Inequality

Question 3

Problems getting worse

Answer 3

Environmental
damage

Social capital
Read “Bowling Alone”
by Robert Putnam

Question 4

How do we fix climate change

Answer 4

We need to drastically reduce our carbon footprint, but this is difficult, we need a scientific breakthrough for everyone to became sustainable, but we don’t know how to fix climate change

Question 5

Intellectual problem

Answer 5

Not knowing how to solve the problem

Question 6

Cog Sci

Answer 6

is excellent for solving the worlds problems because intellectual problems need cognition

Question 7

Solving solutions

Answer 7

can be done through imagination with cog sci, how you understand how people understand things already, once you understand where the problem lies you can fix it,

Question 8

Requirement for AI

Answer 8

Some solutions require a large amount of time or resource that AI can solve these problems quickly like google. (stock trading), (arithmetic and statistics), (scheduling), (Search Engines and Aggregating), (Many Games).

Question 9

Ways where humans are better an AI

Answer 9

Language

Physical Movement

Creativity (arts, science, etc.)

Science

Social interaction

Vision

Many games

Most everyday tasks, etc.

However, AIs and other
programs can make humans
more effective, used as tools

Question 10

Our perspective

Answer 10

We re evolved to see the world in a certain way, we don’t need to see all the light on the spectrum,

Question 11

Solid objects

Answer 11

are mostly empty states like large stadiums, in the middle of the stadium is a fly that a nucleus and that fly is the heaviest thing in the stadium, we perceive solid objects as solid because we cant go through them.

Question 12

Plants

Answer 12

Violently compete with each other like other animals, locked in a struggle for their life.

Question 13

Perception of Tome

Answer 13

We understand a day and seasonal cycle

But a creature that lives one day would never
comprehend these things.

What time scales are we intuitively unaware of?

Trees, stars and glass appear to be immobile

Time dilation due to relativity seems weird

Because we move slowly

Question 14

Science and humans

Answer 14

Since we are a social species we can communicate our knowledge with each other and this is how we do science.