Week One and two: Introduction to Course Themes
Humans and machines, who (what?) are we really?
Read: ch 1
Turing machine due on monday of week 2.
Info on Turing:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=g7_WzNzHwJY
http://www.turing.org.uk/
More detail on Turing machines
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-machine/
SYNTAX vs SEMANTICS
Week Three: Symbol systems
Read: ch 2
ON SOAR: http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/soar/sitemaker/docs/misc/GentleIntroduction-2006.pdf
Week Four: Patterns, contents, and causes
Read: ch 3
Reflection 1 due
Week Five: Connectionism
Read: ch 4
Extra reading:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/
Week Six: Perception, action, brain
Read: ch 5
Reflection 2 due
Week Seven: Robots and AI
Read: Read 6
Week Eight: Dynamics
Read: ch 7
Week Nine: More dynamics
Read: extra materials
Week 10: Cog Tech: beyond brain
Read: ch 8
Reflection 3 due
Week 11: Consciousness
Read: Appendix II
Week 12: More consciousness
Read: TBD
Reflection 4 due
Week 13: Ethics
Read: TBD
Week 14: TBD
Reflection 5 due
Week 15: TBD
Week 16: TBD
Week 17: Final paper due on Monday, December 10
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