Humanities Homework Help
University of California Berkeley Decoupled Representations and Cognitive Map
Please write a 2.5 page (no longer than 3 pages) essay on the following prompt. Please just answer the prompt, no intro or conclusion necessary.
Sterelny takes the capacity to form decoupled representations to be the hallmark of genuine cognition.
Explain the notion of decoupled representation and how beliefs are a kind of decoupled representation.
Contrast agents that form decoupled representations with what Sterelny calls ‘detection agents’.
What is a cognitive map? Explain the example of bat navigation discussed in class. What about the
example suggests that the bats in the experiment were navigating by representing the spatial features
of their environment?
https://ucla.zoom.us/rec/share/SglQZz7ziwvHojAZRez… (passcode: W2@zp?cm) Sterelny lecture
https://ucla.zoom.us/rec/share/V2gYnm4qkjkqce8Swc8… (passcode: 0#rK=2+p) Cognitive map/bat study lecture.
Use these readings, lectures, or powerpoint slides as only resources. In the lectures, the TA goes over each slide in detail if you want more clarity on any of the slides. He also has the slide he is teaching on the screen, so you can just skip to whatever slide you may need. For any additional materials, or if the recorded lectures arent working, feel free to message me!
