In last Wed. night's Society of Mind class, Marvin Minsky mentioned a movie of Richard Feynman available on the Internet. It is a great piece titled "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out," and I found a link to it on this Richard Feynman page (from which I ordered the audio CDs of Feynman's lectures+bongo-playing ( Read more... )

W00t! I finished it already! The assignment was to write a paper discussing how a particular article, book, etc., used the word "consciousness." The hardest part was locating an article, and finally I had to cough up money to subscribe to MIT's cognitive science site cognet.mit.edu for a 5-day membership=$15, and even then, I only got limited pdf ( Read more... )

During last week's Society of Mind class Bob Hearn demoed this nifty program he wrote based on Minsky's book Society of Mind. The description of the program alone sounded interesting, but it turns out, if you have a Mac, you can try it out yourself. Here is Bob Hearn's description, from his web page ( Read more... )

What some of brain events should reflections detect? That would include predictions that turned out to be wrong, plans that encountered obstacles, or failures ( Read more... )