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Disruption of the right temporoparietal junction with transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces the role of beliefs in moral judgments, by Liane Young, Joan Albert Camprodon, Marc Hauser, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, and Rebecca Saxe.

WRT: 35 min

The Next 50 Years: A Personal View, by Patrick Henry Winston.

Assignment

If you discuss the paper or the assignment with another student—which we encourage—indicate whom you have talked with in your submitted composition. Of course your submitted composition must be written entirely by you.

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following:

Winston has decided to write a textbook on the work done in the Intelligence Initiative. He hires you for the summer to help. Your first assignment is to write up some notes, in the form of chapter openings, on the following subjects:

• Transcranial magnetic stimulation.
• The evolution of AI since Turing's seminal paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence.

Winston has neglected to mention he will be out of touch while you are doing your work, so you have only a brief audience in which to receive instruction. During that audience, Winston runs out of time before he explains the standard components in his chapter-opening template.

• Reverse engineer the sample chapter openings and exhibit the slots that seem to constitute Winston's chapter-opening template. Add any other slots that seem especially important to you.
• Write chapter openings for the two chapters listed in your first assignment, demonstrating use of whatever frame slots seem appropriate for the material.