Potential paper topics April 2, 2007
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Here’s the list from Friday’s lecture:
- Do birds have grammar?
- What types of grammar exist?
- How can we test if something has a grammar if we don’t know what the words mean?
- Is prosopagnosia more common than we thought?
- What is prosopagnosia?
- What levels of prosopagnosia exist?
- How do we test for prosopagnosia?
- If prosopagnosia is so common, why was it undetected?
- What has changed now that it has been detected?
- Do humans and agents in The Matrix have different inner lives?
- What are the assumed characteristics of The Matrix?
- What are the limitations of understanding whether something is conscious?
- What about the nature of qualia?
- In the end, does it matter?
- Is morality determined by evolutionary pressures?
- Why might our notion of mortality be supported by evolution?
- Why might evolution cause altruistic behavior?
- How can we tell whether our morality is based on evolutionary pressures rather than simply on our common experiences in the real world?
- Are we “Natural Born Cyborgs” (Clark)?
- What does it mean for me to “outsource” part of my cognitive system onto devices or external representations?
- How and when are we good at extending our cognition to other things?
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