Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: FGV
Here’s why we’ll never be able to build a brain in a computer
It’s easy to equate brains and computers – they’re both thinking machines, after all. But the comparison doesn’t really stand up to closer inspection, as Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals.
People often describe the brain as a computer, as if neurons are like hardware and the mind is software. But this metaphor is deeply flawed.
A computer is built from static parts, whereas your brain constantly rewires itself as you age and learn. A computer stores information in files that are retrieved exactly, but brains don’t store information in any literal sense. Your memory is a constant construction of electrical pulses and swirling chemicals, and the same remembrance can be reassembled in different ways at different times. ...
Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension Vocabulário | Vocabulary
Ano: 2022
Banca: FGV
Here’s why we’ll never be able to build a brain in a computer
It’s easy to equate brains and computers – they’re both thinking machines, after all. But the comparison doesn’t really stand up to closer inspection, as Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals.
People often describe the brain as a computer, as if neurons are like hardware and the mind is software. But this metaphor is deeply flawed.
A computer is built from static parts, whereas your brain constantly rewires itself as you age and learn. A computer stores information in files that are retrieved exactly, but brains don’t store information in any literal sense. Your memory is a constant construction of electrical pulses and swirling chemicals, and the same remembrance can be reassembled in different ways at different times. ...
Língua Inglesa Advérbios e conjunções | Adverbs and conjunctions Os advérbios (grau, a finalidade, contraste ...) | Adverbs (degree, purpose, contrast...) Advérbios de: lugar, modo, tempo e freqüência | Adverbs of: place, manner, time and frequency
Ano: 2022
Banca: FGV
Here’s why we’ll never be able to build a brain in a computer
It’s easy to equate brains and computers – they’re both thinking machines, after all. But the comparison doesn’t really stand up to closer inspection, as Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals.
People often describe the brain as a computer, as if neurons are like hardware and the mind is software. But this metaphor is deeply flawed.
A computer is built from static parts, whereas your brain constantly rewires itself as you age and learn. A computer stores information in files that are retrieved exactly, but brains don’t store information in any literal sense. Your memory is a constant construction of electrical pulses and swirling chemicals, and the same remembrance can be reassembled in different ways at different times. ...
Língua Inglesa Verbos | Verbs Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: FGV
The passage in which the verb phrase indicates a necessity is:
Língua Inglesa Sinônimos | Synonyms Vocabulário | Vocabulary
Ano: 2022
Banca: IADES




Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 


In line 21, the word “fancy” could be replaced with whim without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: IADES




Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 


Dutch paintings depicting noble and common people alongside in the winter reflected the consciously invented vision of how the possessing classes wished life in the Netherlands to be.

Língua Inglesa Sinônimos | Synonyms
Ano: 2022
Banca: IADES

Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 


In line 34, the word “allegiance” could be replaced with loyalty without changing the meaning of the sentence.

Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: IADES




Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 


The text argues that the artistic expressions associated with Dutch culture would have been a transient phenomenon had it not been embraced by the non-elite Dutch people. 

Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension Vocabulário | Vocabulary
Ano: 2022
Banca: IADES




Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 


The feeling that Dutch of all social conditions were part of a common group, whose experience was expressed by a common culture, was compromised by the participation in war and by the burden of taxes imposed by the Dutch government.  

Língua Inglesa Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
Ano: 2022
Banca: IADES




Considering the ideas and the vocabulary presented in the text, mark the following items as right (C) or wrong (E). 


In line 9, the expression “propertied nation” refers to the sovereignty of the Dutch nation.