24.09 Minds and Machines

Problem Set 6. Assigned 4/7. Due in recitation 4/14. Answer "yes" or "no" unless otherwise indicated.

(1) Do Clark and Chalmers see a helpful analogy between a school of fish and the spoken and written words in a person's environment?

(2) According to Clark and Chalmers, does Otto (before he consults his notebook) have the occurrent belief that MoMA is on 53rd Street?

Does Dennett (in "True Believers") hold that:

(3) If someone believes that Ryan Seacrest is a genius, that the person has this belief is a perfectly objective matter of fact?

(4) Adopting the intentional stance involves pretending that a system has beliefs it does not in fact have?

(5) In principle, only the intentional stance can successfully predict the behavior of human beings?

(6) Only artifacts like alarm clocks and thermostats are predictable using the design stance?

(7) The intentional stance serves to predict the behavior of human beings completely?

(8) Lecterns believe that they are located at the center of the civilized world?

(9) Beliefs are sentences stored in the head?

(10) Sometimes there is no fact of the matter whether a person has a particular belief?

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