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Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence is an area for discussion on the combined disciples of the Philosophy of Mind with the scientific research, not restricted to Computer Science, into modeling, and replicating, human cognitive states in computing machinery. This category will focus on sites with resources, papers, discussions, and links are of interest.

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• A Definition of AI

  http://dobrev.com/AI/definition.html
  A proposition for a formal definition of AI.

• A Philosophical Encounter by Aaron Sloman

  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/cog_affect/ijcai95.text
  In Proceedings 14th International Joint Conference on AI Montreal, August 1995: `A philosophical encounter: An interactive presentation of some of the key philosophical problems in AI and AI problems in philosophy.'

• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

  http://www.theassc.org/
  ASSC "promotes research directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness."

• Being Real by Judith S. Donath

  http://smg.media.mit.edu/papers/Donath/BeingReal/BeingReal.html
  This appears in Goldberg, K. (ed.) The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of the Internet, MIT Press

• Brain in a Vat

  http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/Tissues.htm
  Can bad men make good brains do bad things?

• Brain-Mind: Know Thyself

  http://mind.sourceforge.net/theory5.html
  Philosophy of mind for artificial intelligence. This paper was originally commissioned by and published in NOVEMBER Magazine. Links will lead to the free full text of the book, Ai4u: Mind-1.1 Programmer's Manual By Arthur T Murray

• Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

  https://sites.google.com/site/minddict/
  A collection of terms, definitions, and scholarly works on the topic of Philosophy of Mind that provides useful background material for the study of artificial intelligence theory.

• Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation

  http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/8/4/7.html
  Discussion of the epistemological status of simulation in a cross-disciplinary setting could contribute to a deeper understanding of relevant issues and so it proved.

• God Is the Machine

  http://www.wired.com/2002/12/holytech/
  In the beginning there was 0. And then there was 1. A mind-bending meditation on the transcendent power of digital computation. By Kevin Kelly

• MainFrame: Artificial Intelligence

  http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/cs/ai022.htm
  Material on Artificial Intelligence as engineering with emphasis on the exploitation of logic. A topography is presented with logic at the center.

• Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

  http://consc.net/mindpapers/6/all
  Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography. A massive listing.

• Sentience: The next moral dilemma

  http://www.zdnet.com/article/sentience-the-next-moral-dilemma/
  By Richard Barry: Humankind will have to decide how to live with a new sentient race. Sometime in the future machines will reach a level of intelligence that will challenge, or even surpass our own.

• Stevan Harnad E-Prints on Cognitive Psychology

  http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/genpub.html
  Papers on categorical perception, the symbol grounding problem, and consciousness, with particular emphasis on the philosophy of AI.

• The Digital Philosopher

  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/digicult/dc981209.htm
  by Harvey Blume Can robotics shed light on the human mind? On evolution? Daniel Dennett -- whose work unites neuroscience, computer science, and evolutionary biology -- has some provocative answers. Is he on to something, or just chasing the zeitgeist?

• What Robots Can & Can't Be

  http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?5.59
  Essay by Selmer Bringsjord argues that AI will continue to produce machines with the capacity to pass stronger versions of the Turing Test but that the "Person Building Project" will inevitably fail. Abstract and chapter summations.

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