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Searle attempts to make clear that the kind of understanding that Shank’s machine or an automatic door, etc., has:

What are the issues involved in the synchronic question of personal identity, i.e., identity at a given time? Check all that apply:

Fallibilism:

The reason why branching cases pose a problem for personal identity (synchronic [at a time] and diachronic [over time]) is because there cannot be two of the numerically identical person (while there could be two qualitatively identical persons, e.g., twins). Put differently, if person A and person B were numerically identical, they would occupy the same space-time region during the whole of “their” existence. This latter is not true in a branching case. 

According to the Design argument:

Regarding Descartes’ Dream and Evil Demon Arguments: 

Choose all the choices where the lefthand term is necessary for the righthand term. For example “Pope, Catholic” vs “Catholic, Pope.” The second combination is such that the lefthand term (Catholic) is necessary for the righthand term (Pope), but not sufficient. 

Round 0.007820to three significant figures.

You dissolve 0.500 mol of NaCl into enough water to make 250.0 mL of solution. What is the molarity?

In the reaction N2+3H2→2NH3, if you have 56.0 g of N2 and 12.0 g of H2, which reactant is the limiting reactant?