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| Eprints By Stevan Harnad On Cognitive Science - http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/genpub.html Papers retrievable in hypertext form on a variety of topics including categorical perception, the symbol grounding problem, consciousness, and artificial intelligence. - Read more |
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| Association For The Scientific Study Of Consciousness - http://assc.caltech.edu/index.htm ASSC promotes research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness. - Read more |
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| Being Real - Judith S. Donath - http://smg.media.mit.edu/papers/Donath/BeingReal/BeingReal.html This essay approaches several issues by focusing on a question with special resonance for both technologists and philosophers: can one tell if the person at the other end of an online discussion is indeed a person? - Read more |
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| Brain in a Vat - http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/Tissues.htm On Twin Earth, a brain in a vat is at the wheel of a runaway trolley. There are only two options that the brain can take: the right side of the fork in the track or the left side of the fork... - Read more |
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| A Definition Of Artificial Intelligence - http://dobrev.com/AI/definition.html Do we have to know what is AI? This question can be easily answered: Yes, if we want to find it then our task will be a lot easier if we know what is the thing we are looking for. Failing to define AI, our position will not differ from that of the Alchemists who sought for the Philosopher's stone but almost had no idea what they were searching for. - Read more |
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| The Digital Philosopher - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc981209.htm Can robotics shed light on the human mind? On evolution? Daniel Dennett, whose work unites neuroscience, computer science, and evolutionary biology, has some provocative answers. Is he on to something, or just chasing the zeitgeist? - Read more |
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| Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation - http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/8/4/7.html This special section includes papers originally presented at a workshop on 'Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation' in July 2004 at the University of Koblenz, in which some thirty colleagues participated. - Read more |
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| God Is the Machine - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/holytech.html At today's rates of compression, you could download the entire 3 billion digits of your DNA onto about four CDs. That 3-gigabyte genome sequence represents the prime coding information of a human body — your life as numbers. Biology, that pulsating mass of plant and animal flesh, is conceived by science today as an information process... - Read more |
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| MainFrame - Artificial Intelligence - http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/cs/ai022.htm By a way of clarifying the scope of the field and identifying the particular interests of Factasia, we seek a definition of intelligence which is not homo-centric. - Read more |
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| Philosophy of AI - http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/Notes/AI/philosophy.html Philosophy of AI is a history of "big names". The debates are great fun to watch. Here are some big names and my take on them. You don't have to agree with me of course. - Read more |
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| Principia Cybernetica - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Default.html The Project aims to develop a complete philosophy or world-view, based on the principles of evolutionary cybernetics, and supported by collaborative computer technologies. To get started, there is an introduction with background and motivation, and an overview, summarizing the project as a whole. - Read more |
