Bay Area Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group

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Memes A great intro to Deacon and Peirce for this group. He's an excellent communicator. He makes fundamental clarifications of muddled yet critically important ideas. And makes it look so easy. Terrific in person.	Adobe Acrobat file	145K	Mark Carranza	Jun 9, 2010
van Driem - The Language Organism - Leiden Theory of Language Ev I wish there were more details here, but big linguisticky ideas, boldly writ. God as parasitic mental construct.	Adobe Acrobat file	24K	Mark Carranza	Jun 23, 2009
Kortlandt - A Parasitological View of Non-Constructible Sets 1985 Paper on language as parasite. Deep, provocative but annoying. Remember in that year we were still all going to die in nuclear fire or winter. Especially in European universities.	Adobe Acrobat file	135K	Mark Carranza	Jun 23, 2009
Turing 1950 paper - Computing Machinery and Intelligence Big gay Al: "The original question, "Can machines think?" I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion." Then Turing predicts about year 2000 in the next sentence. Please read, closely. Includes original Turing Test! Objections from ESP!	Adobe Acrobat file	81K	Mark Carranza	Apr 12, 2009
DistributedCognition Edwin Hutchins' important 2000 paper on distributed cognitive processes. As thinking happens "in the wild," mental processes and actions are organized both within and across the external world and within and often across several mental "entities."	Adobe Acrobat file	41K	Mark Carranza	Apr 12, 2009
Computer_Think_question Response to Kennita's reference to "Ask the Experts" question: "Can computers think? Can they Feel?"	Adobe Acrobat file	28K	Augustus	Apr 11, 2009
Networks and consciousness The slides from the 8/17 Social Networks and Consciousness	a .pptx file	715K	Don Steiny	Aug 18, 2008
CognStuf "What Makes Something A (Digital) Computer? Why Not Just Any Computational Interpretation Is Sufficient" by Robert Stufflebeam	HTML file	34K	A former member	Aug 23, 2007
ascribing "Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines", by John McCarthy	Adobe Acrobat file	294K	A former member	Aug 23, 2007
overviewAI An Brief Overview of Artificial Intelligence	PowerPoint presentation	873K	A former member	Feb 13, 2007