Minds and Machines

Assignment 2
 Due Thursday, February 5th

Remember:

• You must do one of the first 3 assignments.
• No late papers
• Use your own words—no quotations or paraphrases

 Answer each question. You can give fairly minimal answers to all but the last if you like.

1. Describe the “blockhead” very briefly in one of its incarnations.

2. What is the point of the blockhead supposed to be?

3. Is the blockhead possible?  If not, what is the relevance of its impossibility?

4. What do you think the blockhead shows, if anything at all?