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Vaughn's Intro Exam 3 (4-5-AI)
Vaughn's Intro Exam 3 (4-5-AI)
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1
Stace believes that determinism is consistent with free will.
False
True
2
Nagel declares that the objective perspective is the true perspective.
False
True
3
Ensuring AI technologies are used responsibly in ways that enhance human lives is crucial.
True
False
4
Descartes thinks conceivable is logically possible, & inconceivable is logically impossible.
True
False
5
Stace accepts compatibilism.
True
False
6
The science that has a counterexample to the notion that every event has a cause is known as
relativity theory.
quantum physics.
quantum computing.
chaos theory.
7
James believes that only determinism allows for the possibility of free will.
True
False
8
Stace thinks that determinism is compatible with moral responsibility.
False
True
9
The movies Gattaca and A Clockwork Orange dramatize the fear of
an open future.
a pleasurable future.
violence.
a predetermined existence.
10
Chalmers's zombie twin is identical to him
psychically.
psychologically only.
functionally, but not psychologically.
functionally and psychologically.
11
Block: the Chinese brain has a functional organization that brings a mind into existence.
True
False
12
Sartre advocates withdrawing from human endeavors.
True
False
13
Searle asserts that no computer program by itself, however sophisticated, is sufficient for
syntax.
intentionality.
symbol manipulation.
computation.
14
Bodies & minds are different because bodies can be divided but not is an _______ argument.
divisibility
divisive
conceivability
unitary
15
Searle believes in the possibility of strong AI.
True
False
16
Descartes believed that interaction between body and mind took place in
the brainstem.
the nervous system.
ectoplasm.
the pineal gland.
17
Descartes believes that consciousness must reside in the heart.
True
False
18
Nagel's argument suggests that mental states can be identical with brain states.
True
False
19
The Consequence Argument is supposed to establish
incompatibilism.
free will.
soft determinism.
libertarianism.
20
According to d'Holbach, people always act according to
free choices.
necessary natural laws.
dictates of the soul.
undetermined will.
21
Block's Chinese brain thought experiment is an example of a(n) _______ argument.
inverted spectrum
full qualia
absent qualia
absent spectrum
22
Cartesian dualism posits
a body and a brain.
two minds.
a soul and a spirit.
a body and a mind.
23
Chalmers argues that his zombie is
not conceivable.
actual.
conceivable.
impossible.
24
Rowe says that the problem with Lockean freedom is that, with this kind of freedom,
you have no power over your will.
doing what you will is impossible.
you have the power to do what you will.
you cannot act at all.
25
Hard determinism entails that
determinism and free will are compatible.
determinism and free will are incompatible.
we cannot know whether determinism is true.
determinism and indeterminism are compatible.
26
William James is a fatalist.
True
False
27
According to Searle, the appropriately programmed computer
can achieve strong AI.
explains human cognition.
cannot have cognitive states.
has cognitive states.
28
Substance dualism is said to violate the scientific principle of
dualistic action.
the causal closure of the physical.
behaviorism.
action at a distance.
29
People only use terms syntactically while computers only use terms semantically.
True
False
30
On the subject of free will, John Locke was a
libertarian.
fatalist.
hard determinist.
compatibilist.
31
Functionalism asserts that
the mind functions only when healthy.
the mind does not exist.
the mind's function is to think.
the mind is the function that the brain performs.
32
IoT: network of interconnected devices with the internet.
True
False
33
All Libertarians accept agent causation.
False
True
34
According to Epiphenomenalism,
mental properties do not cause anything.
the mind is an immaterial substance.
the mind is not real.
mental properties can be multiply realized.
35
Searle believes that understanding Chinese (or any other language) is
a matter of inputs and outputs.
computation.
merely a matter of symbol manipulation.
not merely a matter of symbol manipulation.
36
Baron d'Holbach: all mental/moral attributes people think are evidence for immaterial souls are
ethereal.
purely physical and natural.
purely intellectual.
undetermined.
37
Soft determinism entails that
the thesis of determinism is false.
the thesis of determinism is true.
we are free to choose our desires.
there are no restraints on human behavior.
38
Searle argues that the Chinese room thought experiment shows that
computers can understand Chinese.
computers can understand stories.
the claims of strong AI are not plausible.
the claims of strong AI are plausible.
39
Your being thirsty seems to cause you to reach for a glass of water presents a problem for
functionalism.
property dualism.
epiphenomenalism.
substance dualism.
40
Heidegger: technology's safe if used as a tool WE use for ourselves that benefits US.
False
True
41
Rowe says that Lockean freedom exists solely at the level of action.
True
False
42
Soft-determinism: you CHDO is saying you would have done otherwise if your desires
were always the same.
were completely under your control.
had been different.
played no role in your decisions.
43
Functionalism posits the existence of an immaterial substance.
False
True
44
Cartesian dualism says that the mind is identical with the body.
False
True
45
Block's Chinese brain argument is meant to show that functionalism
is too simple.
needs further development.
is too complex.
is false.
46
If mental states are multiply realizable, that presents a problem for
the functionalist theory of mind.
the identity theory of mind.
the property dualist theory of mind.
the substance dualist theory of mind.
47
Regarding mind and body, most contemporary philosophers are
logical behaviorists.
substance dualists.
materialists.
eliminative materialists.
48
D'Holbach: that when we deliberate about a choice, our decision is free and undetermined.
False
True
49
The view that a free action is caused by an agent (person) is called
Taylor's freedom.
fatalism.
the will to believe.
agent causation.
50
Smart thinks that the possibility of zombies shows that they actually exist or will exist.
False
True
51
D'Holbach says that man's life is a course that nature compels him to take without deviation.
True
False
52
Descartes says that the chief characteristic of physical things is that
they do not have extension.
they cannot be measured.
they have extension.
science can study them.
53
Hard determinists and Libertarians agree that free will is incompatible with determinism.
True
False
54
John Searle contends that computers
lack a consciousness (they don’t do anything).
lack genuine intentionality (don’t understand anything).
have genuine intentionality (they understand everything).
have genuine intentionality (they do understand meaning).
55
Chalmers' theory is compatible with all the results of contemporary science.
True
False
56
Property dualism is the view that
the mind has no mental properties.
mental prop. come from, not = or reducible to physical prop.
mental properties are identical to physical properties.
mental properties are reducible to physical properties.
57
AI-bias: AI systems producing biased results from human biases w/in a society.
True
False
58
_______ wrote The Will to Believe and The Varieties of Religious Experience.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Richard Taylor
W. T. Stace
William James
59
Chinese social AI facial recognition & other AI tools are part of their ___ ___ system.
social risk mitigation
socially invasive
social credit
big brother
60
Turing Test: if a human judge can’t distinguish them based on their responses,
then the computer cannot be used.
the machine is considered to be a calculator.
machine/computer DOESN'T shows signs of autonomous thinking.
machine/computer shows signs of autonomous thinking.
61
Mental states are dispositions to behave in particular ways in certain circumstances is
logical nominalism.
eliminative materialism.
methodological behaviorism.
logical behaviorism.
62
Employing ___ ___ in smart cities can improve public safety & help prevent crime.
all of these
real-time data analysis
video surveillance
intelligent traffic systems
63
The view that no one has free will is called
soft libertarianism.
determinism.
hard determinism.
determination.
64
Fodor: functionalist psychology of a system depends not on the stuff it is made of but on
what kind of stuff it is.
how the stuff relates to modern physics.
what psychologists say about the stuff.
how the stuff is put together.
65
According to Nagel, an organism has conscious mental states if and only if
the mental states are reducible to functional states.
it has human-like physical attributes.
the mental states play the right causal role.
there is something that it is like to be that organism.
66
In the Chinese Room Experiment, John Searle argues that
syntax does equate to semantics.
syntax does not equate to semantics.
writing does not equate to ethics.
semantics does not equate to syntax.
67
Reconciling determinism with our intuitions or ideas about personal freedom is known as the
problem of free will.
libertarian dilemma.
determinism problem.
problem of indeterminism.
68
Searle suggests consciousness is inherently tied to the biological processes of the brain.
True
False
69
If the thesis of determinism is true, then fatalism is also true.
True
False
70
Qualitative content is a problem for functionalism.
True
False
71
Descartes says that the mind is distinct from the body and
cannot exist without it.
is dependent on material substance.
is unknowable.
can exist without the body.
72
Every event is determined/necessitated by preceding events & the laws of nature is known as
hard determinism.
libertarianism.
determinism.
compatibilism.
73
Fodor thinks that functionalism is a reductionist thesis.
False
True
74
Chalmers' arguments lead us inevitably to Cartesian dualism.
True
False
75
The view that what will be will be, and no human actions can change it, is known as
fatalism.
futurism.
soft determinism.
determinism.
76
The theory that says mental states are nothing but brain states is known as
brain theory.
logical behaviorism.
identity theory.
epiphenomenalism.
77
If our actions are not free in any important sense, it is difficult to see how we could be
held morally responsible for what we do.
human.
determined by outside forces.
the subject of accurate predictions.
78
William Rowe argues that freedom that is worth the name must include power to
do if we will.
act randomly.
desire what we want.
will.
79
Nagel believes that the essence of the belief that bats have experience is that
they have brains.
we know what it is like to be a bat.
there is something that it is like to be a bat.
bat experiences are like human experiences.
80
AI: simulating human intelligence in machines to think like humans & mimic their actions.
False
True
81
Many compatibilists think the Consequence Argument fails because
it uses a faulty interpretation of "could do otherwise."
its logic is faulty.
it does not define the "past" in a satisfactory way.
the laws of nature are indeed up to us to some extent.
82
Libertarians contend that real freedom is not just the power to act if we will to act, but
power to act according to our desires.
the nonexistence of any deterministic forces.
power over the will itself.
power to act in concert with determinism.
83
Descartes asserts that he knows that he is a substance the whole essence of which is to
think.
breathe.
require a body.
be extended in space.
84
The biggest challenge for property dualism: explaining relationship between mental & physical.
True
False
85
Heidegger: technology's dangerous if used as a tool THEY use for their benefit.
False
True
86
Chalmers can accept a naturalistic understanding of the world and still reject materialism.
True
False
87
The Turing test had a powerful influence on the field of AI.
False
True
88
Smart denies "I have a yellowish orange after-image" is saying something irreducibly psychical.
True
False
89
According to Descartes, the mind, or soul, is
an unthinking and unextended thing.
a thinking and unextended thing.
a thinking and extended thing.
identical to the body.
90
Van Inwagen rejects compatibilism.
True
False
91
Incompatibilists believe that compatibilist freedom is
a plausible hypothesis.
real freedom.
undetermined.
not real freedom.
92
Descartes is convinced that corporeal things exist and that he has a body.
False
True
93
Compatibilism entails that determinism is true, determinism and free will are compatible, and
no one acts freely.
free will is a myth.
we sometimes act freely.
soft determinism is false.
94
D'Holbach's view is that science precludes the notion of free will.
False
True
95
Chalmers's zombie is like the zombies found in Hollywood movies.
True
False
96
According to Block, functionalism is
proven logically.
proven empirically.
implausible.
plausible.
97
According to Block, the Chinese brain system has
no mental states.
mental states.
minimal awareness.
minimal consciousness.
98
Descartes: it's conceivable/logically poss. we exist w/out his body is an _______ argument.
divisibility
possibility
conceivability
probability
99
Taylor rejects libertarianism.
False
True
100
Libertarianism entails
The thesis of indeterminism is false.
Our actions have no causes whatsoever.
Free will is an illusion.
The thesis of determinism is false.