Paper addressing problems with Stich & Nichol's theory for handling recursive pretense. Brings in evidence from split brain experiments, multiple personality disorder.
From a talk given about an account of 3rd person mindreading from Stephen Stich and Shaun Nichols' 2003 book Mindreading. (It's about a philosophical acount, nothing mystical.)
Chapter 5 of Knowledge Representation by John F. Sowa. Ontologies, Pierce's thirdness, SUMA and CYC, all that jazz. Instructor: Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Presentation about affective wearable computers.
An improved interface to UOS's CQP interface. This one will open your queries in a new window and will remember your old queries.
All of the assignments and my group's answers to them.
Basic introduction, focusing on David Chalmers. Covers the "Hard Problem" of conciousness, and common arguments against a reductive explanation of consciousness.
The philosophy of David Chalmers is described and critiqued, with emphasis on what it means for the field of Artificial Intelligence. Topics covered are the Hard and Soft problems of consciousness, supervenience, arguments against materialism, and Chalmers’ proposal of information as the building block of consciousness.
An implementation of a Set Covering Machine, as decribed by Mario Marchand and John Shawe-Taylor in their paper. Features visualization of 2D data in a browser, generated by tranforming XML debug code via XSLT into DHTML. Also includes a short paper on the development methodolgy and tips for extending the program code.
Some python code for doing morphological transformation and analysis of some amharic words.