Week
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Subject
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Mind and Body 1 |
Introduction
Course Outline,
Minds and Body-Machines
Reading:
Selections
from Descartes & de La Mettrie
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Intentionality4 |
Minds and
Perspectives
Intentionality
Reading:
Dennett,
"The Intentional Stance"
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3
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Normore's lecture
Thinking machines 2
Searle2 |
Thinking
machines
The
Computational Theory of Mind.
Reading:
Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Criticisms: The
Chinese Room Argument
Reading:
Searle & the Churchlands, "The AI Debate"; Minsky, "Why People Think
Computers Can't"
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4
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5
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6
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Cogs 1000 neural nets
neural nets
connectionism 2.1
Tressel Backpropagation
Homunculi |
Brainlike
Machines
Connectionism
Reading:
Copeland, "AI's Fresh Start."
The Language of
Thought Hypothesis
Reading:
Fodor, "Why There Still Has to Be a Language of Thought."
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7
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8
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9
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Frame problem
Dennett Cognitive Wheels
Yale shooting problem |
Attention.
The ‘frame problem’.
Attentional
Deficits.
Reading:
Gazzaniga, "The Split Brain Revisited."
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10
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Modularity
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Modularity of Mind
Including an introduction to the
processes of vision.
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11
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Consciousness Chalmers
consciousness10001
consciousness1
Jackson |
The Puzzle of
Consciousness.
Consciousness
and Machinery
Reading:
Chalmers, "The Puzzle of Conscious Experience"; Jackson, 'The Qualia
Problem."
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12
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13
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