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May Flashcards

Things learned in May

1
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Dennett best example of memes

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Words

No myth of creation or design. Classified already into family trees. Change and adapt and succeed or fail.

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Dennett best definition of a meme

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A way.
A way of thinking
A way of wearing a hat
A way of designing a bridge

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Dennett: humans are not simply learners…

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… they are also persuadable. Theyrespond to reasons that are represented to them.

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Ant colony structure

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Ants perform particular roles but these roles are not fixed. The ants are not specialists. They display collective intelligence and respond to gluts of food by reallocating guards to workers, threats by reallocating workers to soldiers. Roles can change by age as well as economic need. In hundreds of species the ants are homogeneous with no physical distinctions at all.

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Ant intelligence expert

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Deborah Gordon

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6
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Major system:

Cthulu

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715

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Major system:

Avicenna

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802

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8
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Major system:

chum

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63

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9
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Major system:

bored

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941

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10
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Jemma birthday

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22/11

Nun toad

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11
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Isla birthday

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2/11/2018

Indict Isla

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12
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Olly birthday

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22/5/2017

Ninny Olly

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13
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Edinburgh Anniversary

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15/4

Dollar!

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14
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Kenya Anniversary

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11/6

Add dosh

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15
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Keri birthday

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6/4

Chore

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16
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Tracy Birthday

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21/4

Indoor

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17
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Julian Birthday

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1/12

Die dino

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Dennett tentative proposal for origin of language

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Chomsky’s recent revision to his Language Activation Device (LAD), MERGE. Merge is the capacity to formulate recursive linguistic conceptual relationships by associating two concepts using just the label of one of them.

Merge is a candidate for a very simple adaptation that enabled later complex language use.

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Lee Siegel 1991 “Real magic…”

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Real magic, in other words, refers to magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.
Dennett uses as an analogy for consciousness and neuroscience

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Dennett “the hard question”

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“and then what?”

If a theorist finds a way to explain how a representation makes it into phenomenal consciousness, we must ask why? What is it doing there? Dennett’s claim is that there is never a satisfactory answer, that all the work has already been done by the subpersonal processes.

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21
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Dennett free will is just as real as…

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… dollars, centres of gravity etc. we cannot do without them and we cannot do without free will.

22
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Frances Arnold

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Biochemist. 2018 Nobel prize chemistry. Novel protein evolution.

23
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Biochemist. 2018 Nobel prize for Chemistry. Novel protein Evolution.

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Frances Arnold

24
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Thomas Landauer

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Pioneering development of “latent semantic analysis”.

A professor sets an essay question on an exam, and writes an A+ answer to the question, which is then given to both the computer program and a human teaching assistant as an example of what a good essay on the topic should be. (The A+ answer is not shown to the examination takers, of course.) Then the program and the teaching assistant grade all the student answers, and the program’s grades are in closer agreement to the professor’s judgments than the grades submitted by the teaching assistant, who is presumably a budding expert in the field.

25
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Latent semantic analysis Pioneer

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Thomas Landauer

26
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Seleucid empire dates and context

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311BC emerged after death of Alexander the great. Introduced a universal standard for time - counting years.

27
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Trial of Socrates order of dialogues

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Meno
Euthyphro
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
28
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The science of storytelling author date

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Will Storr 2019

29
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The brain is not a logic…

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The brain is not a logic processor, it is a story processor.
Attributed to Jonathan Haidt by Will Storr

30
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Monomyth theorist

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Joseph Campbell

31
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Number of explanation seeking questions asked between age 2 and 5

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40,000

32
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The psychology of curiosity author year main points

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Loewenstein 1994
Curiosity induced by
1 posing question or problem
2 giving a sequence with an anticipated but unknown resolution
3 violation of expectations triggers a search for explanation
4 knowing that others possess some information

33
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Elements of personality from will Storr science of storytelling

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Neuroticism
Openness
Extraversion
Conscientiousness

34
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Culture differences east and west

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Individual hero v collective harmony
Greek situation mountainous. Unsuitable for communal farmers. Individuals who could hustle were successful.

China and India have paddy cultures of harmonious cooperation leading to success.

35
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Prof Sarah Humble experiment

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Present people in MRI evidence that contradicts their political beliefs. Fight or flight neural response recorded. Like coming across a bear in the woods.

36
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Split brain researcher

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Michael Gazzaniga

37
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Michael Gazzaniga findings

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Split brain patient. Left hem told to walk. Right hem confabulated reason “I want a coke”

Left hem shown pictures of burning people. Right hem “I don’t know why but I am scared, I feel jumpy, I don’t like this room, you are making me nervous. “

38
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Difference principle

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John Rawls

Inequalities are just insofar as they work to the benefit of the least well off.

39
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3 Objections to Rawls and replies

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Incentives (accounted for by difference principle)
Meritocratic based on effort (influenced by natural and cultural contingencies) (meritocracy does not measure effort but outcome)
Self ownership (rights protected by veil of ignorance)
40
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School experience effects

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Research shows that people with a positive high status school experience watch episodes of intense social interaction and attend more closely to the positive interactions, those who were low status at school would attend to negative and unkind behaviour.

41
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Brian Little: average number of personal projects we have going on at once

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15

42
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Leibniz main work

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Monadology 1714

43
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Curlicue

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A pretty curl or twist

“A curlicue of smoke”

44
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A pretty curl or twist

A

Curlicue

45
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Tao the Ching: The master is…

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The master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will.

46
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Epoché

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Suspension of judgement

Phenomenology: ridding experience of any theoretical baggage by attending closely to the phenomena.

47
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Suspension of judgement

Phenomenology - thought rid of presuppositions

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Epoché

48
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At the Existentialist Café author date

A

Sarah Bakewell 2016

49
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Dasein

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Heidegger
Being there
Humanness

50
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Das Man

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Heidegger
The they as in they say it will be over at Christmas
But we are part of it. Must resist brig swept along by it

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