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 and Six: Dennet's visit
Extra reading to conclude Chapter 4:
http://southerncrossreview.org/9/kleist.htm
Extra reading in prep for D. Dennett's arrival:
For Friday, September 21:
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/freewillforBaerfinal.pdf
For Monday, September 24:
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/atheism.pdf
A crit of Dennett's view on religion:
http://phil415.pbwiki.com/f/WIESELTIER%20ON%20DENNETT.pdf
Week Seven: Connectionism (now for real)
Read: ch 4
Extra reading:
Philosophical issues:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/
More technical issues (for CS/math lovers):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network
A longer intro:
http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/index.html
Week Eight: Perception, action, brain
Read: ch 5
Week Nine: Robots and AI
Read: Read 6
Week Ten: Dynamics
Read: ch 7
Reflection 3 due
Week Eleven: More dynamics
Read Chapters 6, and 7.
Extra materials (light read for a grey afternoon):
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy_pr.html
Visit CS 640 class on wednesday.
Wednesday, October 31, Room 310, South wing,
University Services Building.
read John Koza's tuorial on Genetic Prgramming:
http://phil415.pbwiki.com/f/JKTutorial.pdf
Week 12: Cog Tech: beyond brain
Read: ch 8
Reflection 4 due
Week 13: Consciousness
Read: Appendix II
Week 14: More consciousness
Read: TBD
Reflection 5 due
Week 15: Ethics
Read: TBD
Week 16: TBD
Week 17: Final paper due on Monday, December 10
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