[EM] = Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. Simon & Schuster, 2007. ISBN: 9780743276641. The text is also available online on Professor Minsky's homepage.
Students are expected to have read The Society of the Mind before the semester starts.
———. Society of the Mind. Simon & Schuster, 1988. ISBN: 9780671657130.
SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
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1 | Introduction | [EM] Introduction |
2 | Falling in Love | [EM] Chapter 1 |
3 | Cognitive Architectures |
Warburton, D. M., ed. "Pleasure systems in the brain." In Pleasure: The Politics and The Reality. John Wiley & Sons, 1994, pp. 5–14 + refs. ISBN: 9780471942290. Sagan, Carl. "A high level overview of minds." Chapter 11 in Cosmos. Random House, 2002. ISBN: 9780375508325. |
4 | Question and Answer Session 1 |
[EM] Chapter 2 OptionalHobbs, Jerry R. and Andrew Gordon. "Goals in a formal theory of commonsense pychology." (PDF) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2010), Toronto, Canada, May 11-14, 2010. 43things.com |
5 | From Panic to Suffering | [EM] Chapter 3 |
6 | Layers of Mental Activities | Schwartz, Barry. "Pitfalls on the Road to the Psychology of Hope." (PDF) In The Science of Optimism and Hope. Edited by J. Gillham. Templeton Foundation Press. 2000. pp.399-412. |
7 | Layered Knowledge Representations | [EM] Chapter 4 |
8 | Question and Answer Session 2 |
[EM] Chapter 5 OptionalLangley, Pat, John E. Laird, and Seth Rogers. Cognitive Architectures: Research Issues and Challenges. Cognitive Systems Research 10 no. 2 (2009). |
9 | Common Sense |
[EM] Chapter 6 OptionalSingh, Push, Ian Eslick, et al. "Computing Commonsense." (PDF) BT Technology Journal 22 no. 4 (2004). Mueller, Erik T. "Automating Commonsense Reasoning using Event Calculus." (PDF) (2009). Open Mind Commons OpenCYC References GoogleTalksArchive. Human Computation: Luis von Ahn, July 26, 2006. August 22, 2012. Accessed March 3, 2013. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx082gDwGcM. GoogleTalksArchive. Computers versus Common Sense: Douglas Lenat, May 30, 2006. August 22, 2012. Accessed March 3, 2013. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAtn-4fhuWA. |
10 | Question and Answer Session 3 | [EM] Chapter 7 |
11 | Mind vs. Brain: Confessions of a Defector | [EM] Chapter 8 |
12 | Question and Answer Session 4 |
[EM] Chapter 9 OptionalDennett, Daniel. "The Origin of Selves." Cogito 3 (1989): pp. 163-173. Kosslyn, Stephen. "On the Evolution of Human Motivation: Social Prosthetics." In Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience. Edited by S.M. Platek, T.K. Shackelford, and J.P. Keenan. MIT Press, 2006. |
13 | Closing Thoughts | None. |