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• - A comprehensive and up-to-date collection of terms, definitions, and scholarly works on the topic of Philosophy of Mind that provides useful background material for the study of artificial intelligence theory.
  
• - Philosophy and history of AI, personalities, links and suggested reading.
  
• - Recent works in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and on consciousness in the sciences
  
• - Links to resources for the following topics: Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Technical Documents.
  
• - by Harvey Blume 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?
  
• - ASSC "promotes research directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness."
  
• - The idea of an extension of classical logic to cover simultaneously active ontological locations develop a philosophical theory and a mathematics of dialectics and of self-referential systems - a cybernetic theory of subjectivity as an interplay of cognit
  
• - Research papers on philosophy and AI, including work on causality, probability and Bayesian networks.
  
• - In Proceedings 14th International Joint Conference on AI Montreal, August 1995: `A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.'
  
• - Material on Artificial Intelligence as engineering with emphasis on the exploitation of logic. A topography is presented with logic at the center.
  
• - In the beginning there was 0. And then there was 1. A mind-bending meditation on the transcendent power of digital computation. By Kevin Kelly
  
• - "A philosophical and scientific exploration in the art of digital modelling of the human consciousness"
  
• - An esssay dealing with how to apply ethics to the possible thinking machines of the future.
  
• - "A resource for the study of imagination and mental images and their relevance to the understanding of consciousness and cognition"
  
• - A proposition for a formal definition of AI.
  
• - "A refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain."
  
• - "An old, bare-metal programmer looks at the mammalian brain and ventures a few remarks"
  
• - AI Topics provides basic, understandable information and helpful resources concerning artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on material available online.
  
• - The Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP) is an international organization that tries to tackle age-old philosophical questions with the help of the most recent cybernetic theories and technologies. Stated more precisely, the Project's aim is the compu
  
• - This appears in Goldberg, K. (ed.) The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, MIT Press
  
• - Links to online papers on AI and Philosophy of Mind.
  
• - Some reflections on Artificial Intelligence and the nature of the Turing Test.
  
• - John Searle's seminal text on problems with the metaphor of the brain as "computing device" in which his famous "Chinese Room" argument is brought forth as criticism of the philosophical foundation for examining human cognition via com
  
• - Can bad men make good brains do bad things?
  
• - Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography. A massive listing.
  
• - "An unorthodox new look at mind, consciousness and perception"
  
• - By Richard Barry: Humankind will have to decide how to live with a new sentient race. Sometime in the future machines will reach a level of intelligence that will challenge, or even surpass our own.
  
• - By Stephen Humphries: Robot Kismet can walk, talk, and make logical decisions. What's the next step in the quest for artificial intelligence?
  
  

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