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What is Intelligence? Can a Machine Think?

February 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I have found that one of the best ways to introduce functionalism to students is to take the Mind Project’s AI program, “Larry Learner” into the classroom and engage the students. There are two versions of the program that plays a game called Last One Loses. The trick when using it in the […]

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Homunculus Video Demo

January 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

For the past couple of years, I’ve been referring to that little guy in Men In Black whenever I have to debunk the homunculus theory of the mind (usually on the first day of my ‘Minds and Machines’ course). So I decided to actually bring the video with me to class:
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