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The Philosophy and Future of AI A personal perspective, with many links, from Artificial Intelligence researcher Mark Humphrys. http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~humphrys/philosophy.html Dcu.ie  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Extended Mind This paper by Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposes an active externalist theory of mind - that when we use tools such as paper or computers to aid in our cognition, they become part of our minds. http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/extended.html Arizona.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Argumentation Map: Do Computers Have to be Conscious to Think? Argumentation maps propose to map the detailed structure of major philosophical debates in graphical form. Portions of the map of the "Can Computers Think?" debate are now available online. http://www.macrovu.com/CCTHowItWork1.html Macrovu.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Dualism: Papers Articles on dualism and parapsychology by John Beloff. http://moebius.psy.ed.ac.uk/~dualism/papers/ Ed.ac.uk  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Connectionism Movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by James W. Garson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/ Stanford.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Mental Representation A mental representation is a mental object with semantic properties. According to the Representational Theory of Mind, psychological states are to be understood as relations between agents and mental representations. Article from the Stanford Encyclop http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-representation/ Stanford.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Squashed Descartes Condensed edition of Descartes' 'Meditations', with study notes and glossary. http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/descartes.htm Btinternet.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The Identity Theory of Mind Evaluates the theory that holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by J. J. C. Smart. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mind-identity/ Stanford.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Epiphenomenalism Discusses the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effects upon any physical events. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by William S. Robinson. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epiphenomenalism/ Stanford.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Multiple Realizability Discusses the contention that a given mental kind (property, state, event) is realized by distinct physical kinds. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by John Bickle. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/multiple-realizability/ Stanford.edu  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check