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Framing Cognitive Science

Framing Cognitive Science. Understanding Behavior of Complex Systems. Examples of Complex Systems. Inputs ==================== Outputs Automobile Human Computer. Framing Cognitive Science. Understanding Behavior of Complex Systems Understanding “Mind ”

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Framing Cognitive Science

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  1. Framing Cognitive Science Understanding Behavior of Complex Systems

  2. Examples of Complex Systems Inputs ==================== Outputs • Automobile • Human • Computer

  3. Framing Cognitive Science Understanding Behavior of Complex Systems Understanding “Mind” Emergence

  4. Theoretical Approaches to Behavior Nature Nurture

  5. Charles Whitman

  6. Charles’ Wife

  7. What did Charlie Do? Killed fourteen people and injured dozens more in a little over ninety minutes. 

  8. Charlie’s end

  9. Charlie’s Arsenal

  10. Why?

  11. Bad Nature? When Charlie’s body was autopsied doctors discovered a small tumor in his brain

  12. Bad Nurture? • Domineering father • Personal failure • Development of a “Sick” mind?

  13. Charlie’s Explanation • “It was after much thought that I decided to kill my wife, Kathy, tonight after I pick her up from work at the telephone company,” he revealed. “The prominent reason in my mind is that I truly do not consider this world worth living in, and am prepared to die, and I do not want to leave her to suffer alone in it.”  He continued, “similar reasons provoked me to take my mother’s life also.” 

  14. Warning Signs “….help of Dr. Heatly some months before, and Heatly released all his records regarding him to the public.  Because Charlie had told Heatly of his fantasy of killing people from the tower during his one appointment…

  15. Theoretical Approaches to Behavior Nature Nurture

  16. Nature Emphasis on The Body • Brain • Central Nervous System • Endocrine System (Hormones) • Genetics • Evolution • Ecology

  17. Theoretical Approaches to Behavior Nature Nurture HardwareSoftware

  18. Nurture • Influence of Environment (outside of the body) • Emphasis on Learning & Experience

  19. Computer Metaphor Hardware versus Software

  20. Extreme Ideas

  21. Francis Galton

  22. Galton’s Infamy • Darwin’s Cousin • Hereditary Genius • Genealogies of the rich and famous • Mental abilities inherited • Coined Nature-Nurture • Female Inferiority • Racial Differences & Eugenics

  23. Louis Agassiz

  24. Agassiz on Race • Polygenist • “As much as I try to feel pity at the sight of this degraded and degenerate race, as much as their fate fills me with compassion in thinking of them as really men, it is impossible for me to repress the feeling that they are not of the same blood”

  25. Socrates Innate Knowledge

  26. John Locke Tabula Rasa: Mind as Blank Slate

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