Homework 5: big issues

Due Friday, 2007-04-27

Pick two of the following apparent aspects of intelligent human behavior, and for each explain

• why it is a challenge for neuromorphic computation (you may need to define the term, for example, symbol, to make it clear how you understand it)
• what approach or approaches that we have studied in the class offer some hope of addressing the problem and how

In your answers you should mention at least one of the approaches we studied most recently: solutions to the binding problem, relations between evolution and learning, convolution memories, adaptive modularity, and supervised and unsupervised constructivist architectures.

Write one to two single-spaced pages. Figures are encouraged.

1. Imagining, simulation
2. Symbols
3. Compositionality
4. The self
5. Empathy
6. Representations shared across different minds
7. Recursion

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