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What are newborns equipped with?
What are some design elements that newborns are not born with?
What do computers do with information?
Which physicist compared the brain to a telegraph?
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What metaphor dominates human thinking about intelligent human behavior?
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Why is the IP metaphor considered 'sticky' according to the text?
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Why did the European Union fund the Human Brain Project with virtually no restrictions?
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What is the current state of understanding the brain's neuronal connectivity?
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Why is it not possible to locate a representation of a dollar bill stored inside the human brain?
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What does the example of Jinny drawing a dollar bill without the bill present suggest?
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What is the main difference between the IP perspective and the 'anti-representational' view of human functioning?
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Which view of human functioning does Anthony Chemero of the University of Cincinnati reject?
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Why is it challenging for neuroscientists to understand human functioning?
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What is the main reason the brain's changes and patterns are unique to each individual?
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True or false: The human brain contains copies of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
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True or false: Newborns are equipped with reflexes that are important for their survival.
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Newborns are born with information, data, rules, software, knowledge, lexicons, representations, algorithms, programs, models, memories, images, processors, subroutines, encoders, decoders, symbols, or buffers.
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Humans have physical memories, just like computers.
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Computers operate on symbolic representations of the world, while humans do not.
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The invention of hydraulic engineering in the 3rd century BCE led to the popularity of a hydraulic model of human intelligence.
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True or false: The IP metaphor is based on a faulty syllogism.
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True or false: Visualizing something is more accurate than seeing it in person.
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True or false: The mathematician John von Neumann compared the human brain to a telegraph.
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True or false: Recognizing something requires reliving the perceptual experience.
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True or false: The Human Brain Project launched by the European Union aimed to create a simulation of the entire human brain on a supercomputer by 2023.
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True or false: The IP metaphor has produced numerous insights and has been widely accepted in the field of neuroscience.
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True or false: The uniqueness problem suggests that no two individuals will have the same changes in their brain after experiencing the same event.
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True or false: The brain's 86 billion neurons can be simulated in a computer, but the pattern of their activity would be meaningless outside the brain.
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True or false: The mainstream view is that humans and computers make sense of the world by performing computations on mental representations.
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True or false: According to McBeath and his colleagues, catching a fly ball requires the player to continuously analyze an internal model of the ball's trajectory.
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