This week, we get into the “mind/body problem,” Descartes making everyone look bad with his giant brain, and what the mind actually is.
Links for the Curious: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dua… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5rII… https://peerj.com/articles/177/
Next week’s topic: Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/15/google_thinking_machines/ http://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GydbuH4C8QA http://io9.com/5715101/all-the-greatest-scenes-where-someone-talks-a-computer-into-self+destructing