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Renowned philosopher and cognitive scientist Dr. David Chalmers is bringing his lecture, ‘Can ChatGPT Think?’ to Augustana.

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PASS theory explains cognition through four processes—planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive—that offer a dynamic ...

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