The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness

Cover
Contents
Preface
1. The Civilization Enabler
	Cleverness Is Not Enough
	The Civilization Enabler
	Knowledge Accumulation
	A Computational Approach
	Why Computation?
2. Where We Come From
	Darwin’s Challenge
	The Brain
	The Difficulty of Invention
	Distinguishers, but Not Civilization Enablers
3. Where We Have Got To
	Pervasiveness of Education
	Education in the Large
	Educability Is Different from IQ
4. Some Foundation Stones
	Acquiring and Applying Belief Systems
	Learning from Examples
	Generalization
	Large Memory
	Symbolic Names
	Teaching
	Chaining
	A Mind’s Eye
	The Rest of Cognition
5. Computation for Describing Natural Phenomena
	Turing Computation
	Probably Approximately Correct Learning
	Robust Models of Computation
6. Integrative Learning
	Putting Experiences Together
	Augmenting Learning with Reasoning
	Robust Logic
	Knowledge as Rules
	Tolerance of Inconsistency
	Rules as Learned Classifiers
	The Power of Learning
	Chaining with Equivalences
	Teaching by Example
	Innate and Acquired Attributes
	Imagination and Novelty
7. What Integrative Learning Does
	Compounding Knowledge
	Soundness of Chaining
	World without Reason?
	Modularity and Partial Information
	Was Pavlov’s Dog Right?
	Exploiting Modularity
	The Patchwork Tapestry
8. The Capability of Being Educable
	The Crux
	An Educable Learning System
	More on Symbolic Names
	Rules Acquired by Instruction
	Scene Management
	Belief Choice
9. Educability as a Model of Computation
	Evolutionary Plausibility
	The Model Is Explanatory
	Teaching to Reason
	Measures of Cognition
	Universality
	The Educability Model Has Robustness
10. Promoting Educability
	Educability as an Individual Capacity
	Educability of a Population
	Measuring
 Educability
	Long-Term
 Retention
11. Artificial Educability
	Fear of Technology
	The Imitation Game
	Beyond the Imitation Game
	AI
	Large Language Models
	Beyond Efficient Generalization
	Integrative Learning Technology
	Educable Technology
	Natural versus Artificial
	The Challenge of Teaching Materials
	No Technological Singularity
12. Education: Some Questions
	Education as a Right
	The Study of Education
	A Different Vantage Point
	In the Classroom
	Teaching Materials
	Education and Propaganda
	Propaganda Safety
	Saturation
13. A Species Adrift
	Human Sacrifice
	At Sea
	The Case of Isaac Newton
	Belief Systems: Good and Bad
	Science as a Belief System
	The Scientific Revolution
	Equality
	Worldviews
Acknowledgments
Summary of Terminology
Notes
Index
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