Intuition Machines

3 Finite - State Machines 3 . 1 Intuition

Aside from the loop index i, which we need just to read the entire input string, this algorithm has a single local variable rem, which has only four different values: 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4. This algorithm already runs in O(n) time, which is the best we can hope for—after all, we have to read every bit in the input—but we can speed up the algorithm in practice. Let’s define a change or transition fun...

Lecture 3: Finite-state Machines [fa'14] 3 Finite-state Machines 3.1 Intuition

Aside from the loop index i, which we need just to read the entire input string, this algorithm has a single local variable rem, which has only four different values (0, 1, 2, 3, or 4). This algorithm already runs in O(n) time, which is the best we can hope for—after all, we have to read every bit in the input—but we can speed up the algorithm in practice. Let’s define a change or transition fu...

Measuring Intuition

The long-held popular notion of intuition has garnered much attention both academically and popularly. Although most people agree that there is such a phenomenon as intuition, involving emotionally charged, rapid, unconscious processes, little compelling evidence supports this notion. Here, we introduce a technique in which subliminal emotional information is presented to subjects while they ma...

Moral Intuition

Suppose we wish to understand a particular moral problem – for example, abortion. One way of proceeding is to reason on the basis of our existing substantive moral beliefs. We may, however, suspect that our moral beliefs about abortion, insofar as we have any prior to serious reflection, are unreliable. We may suspect, for example, that our beliefs about abortion reflect the influence of a reli...

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