Phil/Psych 447 Phil 673

Seminar in Cognitive Science: Cognition and Social Change

Week3: Cognitive Mechanisms

Questions

1. What are semantic pointers?
2. What are images and how are they important for social media?
3. What are concepts and how are they important for social media?
4. Why is cognition both embodied and transbodied?
5. How can beliefs be understood as semantic pointers?
6. What beliefs are important for social media?
7. What are rules and how are they important for social media?
8. What are analogies and how are they important for social media?
9. What are emotions and how are they important for social media?
10. What are values and how are they important for social media?
11. What kinds of motivated and fear-driven inference are important for social media?

Semantic pointer architecture

Phil/Psych 447

Paul Thagard

Computational Epistemology Laboratory.

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