Human performance

WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT DEFINE US AS HUMAN BEINGS?

COMPARE WITH OTHER LOOK BACKWARD LOOK AT THE

CREATURES, THEIR SENSES, AT THE DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT

ABILITIES AND MANIFESTATIONS OF SPECIFIC HUMAN TRAITS OF ARTIFICIAL

OF ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. IN OUT DISTANT ANCESTRAL INTELLIGENCE.

PAST

ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. IS THE COMPUTER THINKING?

TURING TEST CAN THE COMPUTER FOOL SOMEONE INTO

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN?

WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE US HUMAN? ARE WE DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ANIMALS? HOW DIFFERENT? IN WHAT WAYS?

TO HAVE THE CAPACITY TO COMMUNICATE, INTERACT, EXCHANGE THOUGHTS OR DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEWS.

TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO SUBSIST BY WORKING AND CREATING NEW LINKS WITH PEOPLE.

WE ARE DIFFERENT BUT AT THE SAME TIME KIND THE SAME, BECAUSE THEY BEHAVE IN A WILD WAY TO SUBSIST AND STAY ALIVE, AND US AS HUMANS BEHAVE CIVILIZED WITHIN THE ENVIONMENT.

1.- SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY PRIMATES AS ADAPTIONS TO TREE LIFE.

· -FRONT-FACING EYES

· POST-ORBITAL SEPTUM (BONE BEHIND EYE SOCKET)

· FOVEA (CONCENTRATION OF PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS IN THE CENTER OF THE RETINA)

· COLOUR VISION: 3 TYPES OF PHOTO RECEPTORS

· DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD FOOD

· FACIAL RECOGNITION AND EXPRESSION: RECOGNIZE INDIVIDUALS AND READ EMOTIONAL STATE AT A DISTANCE.

2.- SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENTS IN EARLY HOMO AS ADAPTATIONS TO LIFE ON THE GROUND.

· Early homos chose to eat meat

· Tool use

· Fire

· Hunting/scavenging for meat: brain grows

PSYCHOSIS: A disconnect from reality. Specific set of symptoms like HALLUCINATIONS AND DELUSIONS. Often associated with an underlying genetic predisposition toward a specific mental illness: BIPOLAR DISORDER, BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER, SHIZOFRENIA ETC. And TRIGGERED by: head injury, stress, drugs, truama..

INTELLIGENCE: The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge, the faculty of thought and reason, capacity of understanding; ability to perceive and comprehend meaning.

1. Is intelligence unitary or modular?

UNITARY: ONE THING? Does one central potential “horsepower” drive all of our mental processes? “G-factor” example; the IQ model.

MODULAR: do our different mental processes develop somewhat independently from each other?