# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/assessments/): Four pieces of work, what each one is actually testing, and why there is no exam.
- [Calibrated quizzes](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/assessments/calibrated-quizzes/): Ten short quizzes where you declare how sure you are, and being wrong while confident costs more than being wrong while hedging.
- [Cognitive profile](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/assessments/cognitive-profile/): A structured profile of one real organism's cognition, answering nine fixed sections, and closing on what that organism lets you see about people that you cannot see from inside.
- [News and Views](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/assessments/news-and-views/): A thousand words tracing a circulating claim back to its primary source, and reporting the gap between what the source says and what everyone repeats.
- [Position statement and revision](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/assessments/position-and-revision/): Write down what you think intelligence is before you know anything, then revise it in week 11 and account for what moved. The memo is what gets marked.
- [Evidence grades](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/evidence/): The three-grade notation used on every substantive claim in this course, how to assign one, and the claims we currently grade as contested.
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/): The twelve lectures, who gives them, and the evidence each one puts on the table.
- [Too large to represent](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-01/): The lecture sets the constraint and nothing else. A finite system inside a larger world cannot hold that world, so it holds a compression, and compressions lose things.
- [What a sense organ is for](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-02/): Sensing is not reception. It is a commitment about which distinctions are worth paying for, and the mantis shrimp is the case that makes this undeniable.
- [Memory outside the head](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-03/): How the past constrains the present with no neurons involved, and the ninety-year mistake that arrived with it.
- [Correlation, standing in for cause](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-04/): The first mechanism that can be systematically misled, and the fact that nothing inside it can detect the difference.
- [The map, and what it was really for](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-05/): Representing structure you are not currently sensing — and the 2016 result suggesting the machinery was never specifically spatial.
- [Perception as construction](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-06/): The lecture where the direction of flow reverses, and most of what you take to be sensing turns out to be generation checked against input.
- [Modelling the modeller](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-07/): Why a self-model must be a summary, and what that predicts about introspective reports.
- [A million neurons is plenty](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-08/): The brain-size puzzle, and why counting the right thing makes most of it disappear.
- [Another architecture entirely](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-09/): An animal whose nervous system is mostly not in its brain, and a famous question that may be the wrong shape.
- [Cognition outside the individual](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-10/): Swarms, notebooks and committees — and the finding that a group's failures are not its members' failures added up.
- [The catalogue, graded by its own scheme](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-11/): Three separate research programmes that got merged into one slogan, and how much of the famous version did not replicate.
- [The blind spot](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/lectures/week-12/): Nothing new. The account from eleven weeks, aimed at the person holding it, and the week 1 question in a form no card will find.
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/people/): Who teaches the course, which weeks each of us takes, and what to bring to whom.
- [Halvard Emms](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/people/halvard-emms/): Convenor. Works on underdetermination and the epistemology of measurement, and teaches weeks 1, 11 and 12 — the evidence standard, the audit of the course's own sources, and the blind spot.
- [Rosalind Achebe](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/people/rosalind-achebe/): Evolutionary biologist working on convergent cognition in invertebrates. Teaches the comparative weeks and marks the cognitive profiles.
- [Tuyet Nabarro](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/people/tuyet-nabarro/): Neuroscientist. Teaches the weeks on prediction and the self-model, and supervises the calibrated quizzes.
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/policies/): The course-wide rules on late work, extensions, integrity and tool use, plus where to go when something has gone wrong.
- [A world too large](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/01-a-world-too-large/): The constraint the whole course runs on, and the grading scheme you will use every week after this one.
- [Measurement](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/02-measurement/): What a sense organ is for, and the case that settles it — an animal with twelve colour channels that discriminates colour worse than a goldfish.
- [The trace](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/03-the-trace/): Memory without a nervous system, and the century-long mistake that comes with it — a finding discarded in 1906 because the replication used the wrong species.
- [Association](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/04-association/): The first mechanism that can be systematically fooled, and why nothing inside it can tell the difference between a cause and a reliable coincidence.
- [Structure not sensed](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/05-structure-not-sensed/): The internal map, and the result that suggests it was never really about space at all.
- [Prediction](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/06-prediction/): The week the course turns over. Perception as mostly construction, and illusions as the mechanism working rather than failing.
- [The self-model](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/07-the-self-model/): The modeller starts modelling itself, and finds that introspection reports a summary rather than the process that produced it.
- [Small brains](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/08-small-brains/): Everything so far, running on a million neurons — and the collapse of the brain-size story that made it puzzling.
- [Alien architecture](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/09-alien-architecture/): A nervous system built on a different plan, and a famous question that may be malformed.
- [Offloaded](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/10-offloaded/): Cognition pushed outside the individual, and the discovery that a group's failures are not the sum of its members'.
- [The catalogue, and its own problem](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/11-the-catalogue/): The human case, and the week the course grades its own sources — most of the famous literature about how badly you reason has not replicated.
- [The blind spot](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-BrynMtchll/sessions/12-the-blind-spot/): Nothing is added. You apply eleven weeks of account to your own judgement, and the question from week 1 comes back in a form no card will find.