	In the quote from John Locke's Essay concerning human understanding he invites us to"suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas." Although the mind, or at least one's own mind, would seem to be easily examined and understood on its own terms, it turns out that we have often recruited other concepts to use in developing an understanding of the mind. Locke suggests a blank sheet of paper as a starting point. Leibniz and Boole considered a calculus. For this assignment, I would like you to do something similar, but with a hopefully interesting twist. Forget about the mind. Simply choose some concept (that you understand fairly well) -- a blank sheet of paper, an Email system, a calculus, a stone, an ATM machine, .... whatever. Then, ask yourself what kind of "mind" such a concept would constitute. That is, could it remember, retrieve, forget, learn, ... and if so what would be the properties of the way these functions would be realized by such a concept.
Obviously, there are no right or wrong answers. You should strive to put your ideas together in a coherent and analytic fashion. A few paragraphs will probably serve to hint at how you are approaching the task, but you can write more if you wish. Also be prepared to summarize your thinking for your classmates.