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Ineed you to write an essay on one of these three topics: 1. Knowledgefor an agent is most usefully defined as any consistent relationshipbetween something in or on an agent and something else in or on theagent or in the world. 2. Knowledge in a human being and knowledge inother kinds of biological agents are really very different kinds ofthings. 3. Susan Oyama is correct. Let us delete the word innate fromour vocabulary! You can choose any one of these three. These are theinstructions for the essay: Each essay topic is presented as a radicalclaim. Your job is to respond to the claim with a position paper. Youmay agree, disagree, or partially agree/disagree with any claim. Part ofyour task will consist of evaluating the legitimacy of the premisesbehind the claim itself. Don’t forget also to define those termsappearing in the claim that are relevant to your response. How words aredefined and used affects how the claim that they support should beassessed. However, it is not necessary, or even ideal, to specify themeaning of every single term. Pick the ones that matter to yourevaluation. Your goal is to convince the reader that your take on theissue is the right one. You will do this best by providing logicalarguments supported by empirical evidence. You may notice that theseclaims are deceptively simple. The more that you think about each claim,the more the claim may appear to have no easy response. So take thetime to appreciate and respond to the subtleties of the claims that youchoose to address. Also, we are supposed to use as many sources as wecan from the following: Pattie Maes, “Behavior-Based AI,” in FromAnimals to Animats II 2. *Pfeifer & Scheier, from UnderstandingIntelligence, Ch. 7. The subsumption architecture. Optional 3. *Pfeifer& Scheier. from Understanding Intelligence, Ch. 11. The principle ofparallel, loosely coupled processes. 1. *Allen Newell. Precis ofUnified Theories of Cognition. From BB 2 .*John Symons and Paco Calvo.Systematicity. An overview. In The Architecture of Cognition eds. PacoCalvo and John Symons . *Susan Oyama.. The Ontogeny of Information. Ch.2. The Origin and transmission of form: The gene as the vehicle ofconstancy. [anything by Oyama totally mind-changing] 2. *Susan Oyama.Evolutions Eye. Ch. 3. Ontogeny and the central dogma: Do we need theconcept of genetic programming in order to have an evolutionaryperspective? 3. *William Bechtel. Mental Mechanisms. Chs 1 and 4 1.*Plotkin, Darwin Machines. Ch. 4. Behavior without thought 2. *Tallis.Aping Mankind. Ch. 6. The sighted watchmaker 1. *Paul Moser and Arnoldvander Nat. Human knowledge. Optional 2. *Richard Bernstein. ThePragmatic Turn. Ch. 5. Pragmatism, objectivity, and truth. [The longform of some themes from class on the pragmatic view of knowledge. Worthyour time, I think.] 3. *Dont forget the handout on definitions fromDavid Kelley 1. David Vernon. 2014. Artificial Cognitive Systems. Ch. 2.Paradigms of cognitive science. [a good review of the paradigms of cogsci that I hope will refresh your memories from CogS 100 and anticipatewhere we are going] 2. Richard Nisbett et al. Cultural systems ofthought: Holistic vs analytic cognition
