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