Philosophy Of AI

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Roger Penrose is slight in figure and gentle in mien, and he is an Roddly diffident chauffeur for a man who has just proposed how the entire universe-including the enigma of human consciousness-might work. Navigating from the airport outside Syracuse, N.Y., to the city's university, he brakes at nearly every crossroad, squinting at signs as if they bore alien runes. Which way is the right way?

http://www.dhushara.com/book/quantcos/penrose/penr.htm

Rogers Penrose and Quantum Consciousness

The Problem of Consciousness

Abstract: This paper attempts to begin to answer four questions. 1.

http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/searle.prob.html

Jaron's world

http://www.jaronlanier.com/topicsindevelopment.html

Radical Evolution is a book by Joel Garreau which compares my take on technology and the future of human experience with some other takes by Bill Joy and Ray Kurzweil. The "Half-manifesto" is an essay that criticizes computer-centric culture and the way it is influencing mainstream culture and scientific thought. Commentary on the Half-manifesto is plentiful:

Daniel C. Dennett's

http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/incbios/dennettd/dennettd.htm

Daniel C.

- RichardDawkins.net

[Journalists] seem to feel let down when they discover that the real people aren't anything like the way they so relentlessly portray us; as if, since they've gone to the trouble of inventing extravagant caricatures of us, we should at least have the decency to live up to them in real life.