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Mind in Machine


Date	Topic  (Article Selection)                     Book   
                            (I = Mind's Eye, II = Artificial Minds, III = AI)
	
1/27	Introduction to AI, Groundrules

1/29	Mechanisms of Mind				II
	Introduction  (The Mind's Eye)			I	

2/3 	The Nature of Mind and the Mind-Body Problem	II 
	Borges and I and On Having No Head	        I

2/5	Animal Minds					II
	The Soul Martha & MarkIII (note:out of order)   I

2/10	Symbolic AI					II
	Computing Machinery and Intelligence           	I

2/12    The First AI Debate				II
	The Turing Test: A Coffeehouse Conversation	I

2/17	Knowledge in AI					III	
	The Princess Ineffabelle			I

2/19	Reasoning					III
	Rediscovering the Mind				I

2/24	Search						III
	Spirit						I   

2/26	Machine Learning				III
	Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes		        I

3/3	Expert Systems					III
	Prelude...Ant Fugue                             I		

3/5	Natural Language Understanding			III		
	The Story of a Brain                         	I

3/10	Connectionism					II
	Beyond Rejection        	                I
		
3/12	Discussion:  AI today

3/17   	LAB: Hands-on demos of AI stuff and the WWW 

3/19 	The Second AI Debate				II
	Where Am I?					I	
		            Spring Break 3/23-3/29

3/31 	Evolution, Natural and Artificial		II
	Where Was I?					I	

4/2	Artificial Life					II
	Software					I      
	FPP* Formal Paper Proposal Due

4/7	Movie: Robbie and Karl Sim's ALife  
	Demo: Lindenmayer Systems
	
4/9	Multiplicity of Mind				II
	The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution	I
		
4/14	What Do I Do Now?				II		
	Is God a Taoist?	                 	I

4/16	What's Out There?				II
	The Circular Ruins				I	           

4/21    Remembering and Creating			II
	Minds, Brains, and Programs	                I 
	                 
4/23	Discussion (movie)

4/28	Representation and the Third AI Debate		II	
	An Unfortunate Dualist				I

4/30    Planning and Robotics				III
	What Is It Like to Be a Bat?	                I

5/5	Discussion (movie) Scientific American: Robots Alive
		
5/7	Agents						III
	An Epistemological Nighmare			I		

5/12	Models of Mind, Epilogue:philisophical and social issues III
	A Conversion with Einstein's Brain	      	 I

5/14	Into the Future, An Emerging New Paradigm of Mind? III
	Friction					  I  
        * PaperDue