Volume 2 Symposium on Roger Penrose's Shadows of the Mind Managing Editor: David Chalmers In his book Shadows of the Mind, Roger Penrose suggests that deep problems in artificial intelligence, physics, and the philosophy of mind are closely connected. He presents a detailed argument, using G del's theorem, for the conclusion that human thought cannot be simulated by any computation. This leads ...

Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (3), 1995, pp. 200-219 Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness David J. Chalmers Department of Philosophy University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 chalmers@ling.ucsc.edu 1 Introduction Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing ...

Heylighen F. (1990): Representation and Change. A Metarepresentational Framework for the Foundations of Physical and Cognitive Science, (Communication & Cognition, Gent), 200 p.

Copyright 1999 by Donald R. Tveter, http://www.dontveter.com, commercial use is prohibited. This material cannot be quoted at length or posted elsewhere on the net or included in CD ROM collections. Short quotations are permitted provided proper attribution is given. Algorithms and Hardware Most people interested in AI BELIEVE that a digital computer can do all that people can do if it is ...

Book review of Henry Stapp ...