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This set of Philosophy of Informatics Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Philosophy Of Informatics Set 5

Q1 | Searle argues that mental states or activities are not reducible to physical things, but aphysical thing produce them- namely,
  • our body
  • our heart
  • our nervous
  • our brain
Q2 | Searle explains that biological, physical and chemical process produces all our:
  • mental states
  • physical states only
  • character
  • none of these
Q3 | Who claimed humans are purely physical creature?
  • malebranche
  • descartes
  • john searle
  • putnam
Q4 | ‘Only matter exists, so nonmaterial minds cannot exist’. This view is called:
  • materialism
  • eliminative materialism
  • physicalism
  • eliminative idealism
Q5 | ‘Eliminative Materialism and the Philosophical Attitudes’ is written by:
  • john searle
  • paul churchland
  • alan turig
  • gilbert ryle
Q6 | The content of our mind such as desires, beliefs, fears, intentions are do not really exist.This view is called:
  • materialism
  • eliminative materialism
  • physicalism
  • eliminative idealism
Q7 | Paul Churchland refers our ordinary view about human mind as:
  • folk psychology
  • folk physiology
  • mentalism
  • physicalism
Q8 | ‘Churchland argues -------------- is really antiquated theory of the mind.
  • eliminative materialism
  • folk psychology
  • functionalism
  • behaviorism
Q9 | Recycling e-waste is an approach related to:
  • ethical computing
  • effective computing
  • natural computing
  • green computing
Q10 | ------------ theory is radically inadequate account our internal activities according to PaulChurchland.
  • eliminative materialism
  • folk psychology
  • functionalism
  • behaviorism
Q11 | For Eliminative materialist, desires, beliefs, and intentions, are like -----------.
  • demons
  • spirits
  • interactions
  • angels
Q12 | According to Chalmers ----------------- are physically like human being, and act like humanbeing but have no consciousness.
  • robots
  • zigmas
  • zoyasis
  • zombies
Q13 | Who coined the term Artificial Intelligence?
  • john mccarthy
  • lynn bake
  • john searle
  • gilbert ryle
Q14 | Zombies would not have:
  • intelligence
  • storage
  • consciousness
  • memory
Q15 | Thought experiment is related to:
  • david j. chalmers
  • lynn bake
  • john searle
  • gilbert ryle
Q16 | ‘Mental properties such as consciousness are not physical properties’. This position iscalled:
  • dualism
  • property dualism
  • property idealism
  • monism
Q17 | Property dualism recommended by:
  • david j. chalmers
  • lynn bake
  • john searle
  • gilbert ryle
Q18 | Chalmers have the view that mental states are special kind of properties that are differentfrom physical properties. This view is known as:
  • property pluralism
  • dualism
  • property idealism
  • property dualism
Q19 | Searle uses the --------------------- to show the mind is not a computer program.
  • folk psychology
  • chinese room argument
  • zombie argument
  • turing
Q20 | Chalmers uses a ------------------------- to support property dualism.
  • folk psychology
  • chinese room argument
  • zombie argument
  • turing
Q21 | According to McCarthy ----------- is the science and engineering of making intelligentmachines.
  • computer engineering
  • software engineering
  • robotics
  • artificial intelligence
Q22 | ------------- memory is our ability to remember how to do something that we learned in thepast.
  • personal memory
  • habit memory
  • factual memory
  • individual memory
Q23 | --------------- is our ability to bring into our present consciousness a representation of eventsthat we personally experienced in the past.
  • personal memory
  • habit memory
  • factual memory
  • individual memory
Q24 | --------------- is our memory of all the facts that make up our knowledge of the world.
  • personal memory
  • habit memory
  • factual memory
  • individual memory
Q25 | Conscious experience involves properties of an individual that are not entailed by thephysical properties of that individual. This view is called:
  • property pluralism
  • dualism
  • property idealism
  • property dualism