What does "parsimony" mean in the context of how evolution "designs" things?
Why/how do the four behaviors enumerated on p 92 distinguish intelligent from non-intelligent behavior?
Summarize the history (p 93) of the notion that reasoning intelligently is the same is reasoning logically.
What is the "stimulus-response view demanded by behaviorism" (p 93)?
Give an example of a scenario that supports Minsky's "society of mind" theory of intelligence (p 94).
What does the author mean by evolution's "blind search" (p 95)?
What is the meaning of, "nature is a satisficer, not an optimizer" (p 96)?
What is the "killer frisbee" theory of the origin of intelligence?
What dos it mean to have "our hypotheses die in our stead" (p 101)? Why is that a desirable ability?
Of the six theories on the origins of intelligence, which is most appealing to you? Why?
What would Descartes (he of the mind/body duality) have to say about he author's theory that "thinking [is] a form of reliving our perceptual and motor experiences?"
After reading this piece, watch the (8-minute) video. The first three minutes are a little inscrutable, but it's explained in the second part.