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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (BA Philosophy) .
| 101. |
Searle argues that mental states or activities are not reducible to physical things, but a physical thing produce them- namely, |
| A. | our body |
| B. | our heart |
| C. | our nervous |
| D. | our brain |
| Answer» D. our brain | |
| 102. |
Searle explains that biological, physical and chemical process produces all our: |
| A. | mental states |
| B. | physical states only |
| C. | character |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. physical states only | |
| 103. |
Who claimed humans are purely physical creature? |
| A. | malebranche |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | john searle |
| D. | putnam |
| Answer» C. john searle | |
| 104. |
‘Only matter exists, so nonmaterial minds cannot exist’. This view is called: |
| A. | materialism |
| B. | eliminative materialism |
| C. | physicalism |
| D. | eliminative idealism |
| Answer» B. eliminative materialism | |
| 105. |
‘Eliminative Materialism and the Philosophical Attitudes’ is written by: |
| A. | john searle |
| B. | paul churchland |
| C. | alan turig |
| D. | gilbert ryle |
| Answer» B. paul churchland | |
| 106. |
The content of our mind such as desires, beliefs, fears, intentions are do not really exist. This view is called: |
| A. | materialism |
| B. | eliminative materialism |
| C. | physicalism |
| D. | eliminative idealism |
| Answer» B. eliminative materialism | |
| 107. |
Paul Churchland refers our ordinary view about human mind as: |
| A. | folk psychology |
| B. | folk physiology |
| C. | mentalism |
| D. | physicalism |
| Answer» A. folk psychology | |
| 108. |
‘Churchland argues -------------- is really antiquated theory of the mind. |
| A. | eliminative materialism |
| B. | folk psychology |
| C. | functionalism |
| D. | behaviorism |
| Answer» B. folk psychology | |
| 109. |
Recycling e-waste is an approach related to: |
| A. | ethical computing |
| B. | effective computing |
| C. | natural computing |
| D. | green computing |
| Answer» D. green computing | |
| 110. |
------------ theory is radically inadequate account our internal activities according to Paul Churchland. |
| A. | eliminative materialism |
| B. | folk psychology |
| C. | functionalism |
| D. | behaviorism |
| Answer» B. folk psychology | |
| 111. |
For Eliminative materialist, desires, beliefs, and intentions, are like -----------. |
| A. | demons |
| B. | spirits |
| C. | interactions |
| D. | angels |
| Answer» A. demons | |
| 112. |
According to Chalmers ----------------- are physically like human being, and act like human being but have no consciousness. |
| A. | robots |
| B. | zigmas |
| C. | zoyasis |
| D. | zombies |
| Answer» D. zombies | |
| 113. |
Who coined the term Artificial Intelligence? |
| A. | john mccarthy |
| B. | lynn bake |
| C. | john searle |
| D. | gilbert ryle |
| Answer» A. john mccarthy | |
| 114. |
Zombies would not have: |
| A. | intelligence |
| B. | storage |
| C. | consciousness |
| D. | memory |
| Answer» C. consciousness | |
| 115. |
Thought experiment is related to: |
| A. | david j. chalmers |
| B. | lynn bake |
| C. | john searle |
| D. | gilbert ryle |
| Answer» A. david j. chalmers | |
| 116. |
‘Mental properties such as consciousness are not physical properties’. This position is called: |
| A. | dualism |
| B. | property dualism |
| C. | property idealism |
| D. | monism |
| Answer» B. property dualism | |
| 117. |
Property dualism recommended by: |
| A. | david j. chalmers |
| B. | lynn bake |
| C. | john searle |
| D. | gilbert ryle |
| Answer» A. david j. chalmers | |
| 118. |
Chalmers have the view that mental states are special kind of properties that are different from physical properties. This view is known as: |
| A. | property pluralism |
| B. | dualism |
| C. | property idealism |
| D. | property dualism |
| Answer» D. property dualism | |
| 119. |
Searle uses the --------------------- to show the mind is not a computer program. |
| A. | folk psychology |
| B. | chinese room argument |
| C. | zombie argument |
| D. | turing |
| Answer» B. chinese room argument | |
| 120. |
Chalmers uses a ------------------------- to support property dualism. |
| A. | folk psychology |
| B. | chinese room argument |
| C. | zombie argument |
| D. | turing |
| Answer» C. zombie argument | |
| 121. |
According to McCarthy ----------- is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. |
| A. | computer engineering |
| B. | software engineering |
| C. | robotics |
| D. | artificial intelligence |
| Answer» D. artificial intelligence | |
| 122. |
------------- memory is our ability to remember how to do something that we learned in the past. |
| A. | personal memory |
| B. | habit memory |
| C. | factual memory |
| D. | individual memory |
| Answer» B. habit memory | |
| 123. |
--------------- is our ability to bring into our present consciousness a representation of events that we personally experienced in the past. |
| A. | personal memory |
| B. | habit memory |
| C. | factual memory |
| D. | individual memory |
| Answer» A. personal memory | |
| 124. |
--------------- is our memory of all the facts that make up our knowledge of the world. |
| A. | personal memory |
| B. | habit memory |
| C. | factual memory |
| D. | individual memory |
| Answer» C. factual memory | |
| 125. |
Conscious experience involves properties of an individual that are not entailed by the physical properties of that individual. This view is called: |
| A. | property pluralism |
| B. | dualism |
| C. | property idealism |
| D. | property dualism |
| Answer» D. property dualism | |
| 126. |
According to Samkhya --------------- is the modification of mind. |
| A. | mahat |
| B. | ahankara |
| C. | vritti |
| D. | anthakarana |
| Answer» C. vritti | |
| 127. |
According to Samkhya mind is an ----------. |
| A. | evolute |
| B. | modification |
| C. | effect |
| D. | cause |
| Answer» A. evolute | |
| 128. |
According to Samkhya mind is: |
| A. | sentient |
| B. | insentient |
| C. | reflective |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. insentient | |
| 129. |
Samkhya says intellect is ------------------ to mind. |
| A. | independent |
| B. | dependent |
| C. | related |
| D. | cause |
| Answer» A. independent | |
| 130. |
In Samkhya system Intellect, Ego and Mind are generally called: |
| A. | external organ |
| B. | attributes |
| C. | internal organ |
| D. | knowledge organ |
| Answer» C. internal organ | |
| 131. |
----------------- one of the faculty of the internal organ according to Samkhya. |
| A. | jnanendriya |
| B. | tanmatras |
| C. | mahabhutas |
| D. | manas |
| Answer» D. manas | |
| 132. |
The practice of applying statistical, mathematical, and computational techniques on genomic and molecular biological data so as to address biological problems is called: |
| A. | bioresearch |
| B. | dna computing |
| C. | bioinformatics |
| D. | green computing |
| Answer» C. bioinformatics | |
| 133. |
-------------- is the first evolute of prakrti according to Samkhya. |
| A. | manas |
| B. | mahat |
| C. | ahamkara |
| D. | karmedriya |
| Answer» B. mahat | |
| 134. |
Samkhya emphasized -------------- aspect of Intellect. |
| A. | material |
| B. | physiological |
| C. | sociological |
| D. | psychical |
| Answer» D. psychical | |
| 135. |
Samkhya says that knowledge possible by the instrumentation of the psychic medium which is: |
| A. | vrtti |
| B. | mahat |
| C. | ahamkara |
| D. | karmedriya |
| Answer» A. vrtti | |
| 136. |
Samkhya emphasized -----------------nature of Vrtti. |
| A. | spritual |
| B. | material |
| C. | physical |
| D. | psychic |
| Answer» D. psychic | |
| 137. |
According to Samkhya Intellect is the first evolute of Prakrti which is dominated by ------------------- guna. |
| A. | rajas |
| B. | sattva |
| C. | tamas |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» B. sattva | |
| 138. |
Mahat means: |
| A. | the big |
| B. | the light |
| C. | the great |
| D. | the first |
| Answer» C. the great | |
| 139. |
According to ----------------- mental states are nonphysical properties of the brain. |
| A. | eliminative materialism |
| B. | property dualism |
| C. | functionalism |
| D. | behaviorism |
| Answer» B. property dualism | |
| 140. |
Physical properties of the brain cause non-physical properties of the brain but not vice versa. This position is known as: |
| A. | eliminative materialism |
| B. | epiphenomenalism |
| C. | functionalism |
| D. | behaviorism |
| Answer» B. epiphenomenalism | |
| 141. |
The distinctive feature of Epiphenomenalism is that the nonphysical properties of the brain do not in turn, bring about ------------------ of the brain. |
| A. | physical states |
| B. | mental states |
| C. | psychic states |
| D. | nonphysical states |
| Answer» A. physical states | |
| 142. |
------------------------------- is one that is freely available for developers to use or modify as they wish. |
| A. | an operating system |
| B. | a multiuser operating program |
| C. | a network operating system |
| D. | an open- source program |
| Answer» D. an open- source program | |
| 143. |
--------------------- is a stable, easy –to-use and widely distributed Linux operating system. |
| A. | feroda |
| B. | ubuntu |
| C. | suse |
| D. | unix |
| Answer» B. ubuntu | |
| 144. |
The most common tool that is used for searching information over the internet is: |
| A. | network portal |
| B. | open software |
| C. | e mail |
| D. | search engine |
| Answer» D. search engine | |
| 145. |
Data collecting program of a search engine is called |
| A. | spider |
| B. | tegs |
| C. | index program |
| D. | search engine software |
| Answer» A. spider | |
| 146. |
-------------------- are the words you can use to refine your searches, making them more effective. |
| A. | wikis |
| B. | manuals |
| C. | spider |
| D. | boolean operators |
| Answer» D. boolean operators | |
| 147. |
-------------------- is actually the network of networks. |
| A. | search engine |
| B. | internet |
| C. | website |
| D. | podcast |
| Answer» B. internet | |
| 148. |
Blogs are: |
| A. | podcasts posted on web |
| B. | free software |
| C. | search engine |
| D. | personal logs posted on |
| Answer» D. personal logs posted on | |
| 149. |
Blogs are: |
| A. | confidential |
| B. | private |
| C. | public |
| D. | unalterable |
| Answer» C. public | |
| 150. |
-------------------- are online personal networks where individuals are personal networks where individuals are invited or allowed to join. |
| A. | social networks |
| B. | blogs |
| C. | chat groups |
| D. | podcasts |
| Answer» A. social networks | |
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