Independence and Bayes Rule

CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Select the sentence from today's reading that you believe best illustrates1 the practical benefits of independence. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain why you chose this sentence.
  2. Jaynes (p. 17) says that to fall prey to the Mind Projection Fallacy
    is to assert that one's own private thoughts and sensations are realities existing externally in Nature.
    Identify the sentence from today's reading you find most closely related. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain whether your selection supports, contradicts, or complicates Jaynes's position regarding the trouble caused by the Mind Projection Fallacy.
  3. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain an example of two "propositions" from your own experience that exhibit conditional independence given some third proposition (whicih you should also explain).

Footnotes:

1Note once again that to illustrate means to serve as an example of (i.e., the commonality) or to explain or make something clear by use of an example.