We meet second and fourth Sundays every month to discuss AI topics such as:
- Symbolic and SubSymbolic Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Artificial Intuition
- Complexity theory, Model theory
- Semantic Web, Ontology based systems
- Robotics and Robot Ethics
- Linguistics, Document understanding, Semantics, and the Semantic Gap
- Evolutionary Computation, GA, GP, GS
- Computer Consciousness, Novelty, Creativity, Human Learning, Machine Learning
- Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Reductionism and Holism
- AI, Singularity, nanoTechnology, and the future
Our meetings typically consist of a roughly one hour presentation followed by another hour of discussion on any AI-related topic. We try to mix discussions of the latest relevant ideas with tutorials on AI and Philosophy fundamentals at a level accessible to everyone.
Primary and Symbolic Consciousnesses: Two Conscious Beings in One Brain
by Frank Heile PhD
I will argue for the simultaneous existence of two separate conscious entities in the human mind:
The primary consciousness based on sensory representational systems – this consciousness exists in both humans and animals. Read more
What members are saying
“ The only AI related group in the Bay Area (I am aware of) which is not limited to algorithmic and modeling. ”
“ Too early to tell. But seems full of very smart people. ”
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