The Mind’s I by Douglas Hofstadter, Dennett -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Preface Introduction

Private Lives Other Minds Freud’s Crutch

Part 1 A sense of Self

1 Jorge Luis Borges Borges and I

Reflections

2 D. E. Harding On Having No Head

Reflections

3 Harold J. Morowitz Rediscovering the Mind

Reflections

Part 2 Soul Searching

4 A.M. TURING Computing Machinery And Intelligence

The Imitation Game Critique of the New Problem The Machines Concerned in the Game Contrary View on the Main Question

1.- The theological objection 2. The “ Heads in the Sand” Objection 3. The Mathematical Objection . 4. The Argument from Consciousness . 5. Arguments from Various Disabilities . 6. Lady Lovelace’s objection . 7. Argument from Continuity in the Nervous System 8. The Argument from Informality of behaviour 9. The Argument from Extrasensory Perception .

Reflections

5 Douglas R. Hofstadter The Turing test: A Coffeehouse Conversation

Reflections

6 STANISLAW LEM The Princess Ineffabelle

Reflections

7 TERREL MIEDANER The Soul of Martha a Beast

Reflections

8 TERREL MIEDANER The Soul of the Mark III Beast

Reflections

III From Hardware to Software

9 ALLEN WHEELIS Spirit 10 RICHARD DAWKINS Selfish Genes And Selfish Memes

Selfish Genes Selfish Memes Reflections

1 1 DOUGLAS R. HOFSTADTER Prelude . . . Ant Fugue

Reflections

12 ARNOLD ZUBOFF The Story of a Brain

I II Reflections

IV. Mind as a Program

13 DANIEL C. DENNETT Where am I?

Reflections

1 4 DAVID HAWLEY SANFORD Where was I?

Reflections

1 5 JUSTIN LEIBER Beyond Rejection

Reflections

1 6 RUDY RUCKER Software

Reflections

17 CHRISTOPHER CHERNIAK The Riddle of the Universe and Its Solution

Reflections

V. Created Selves and free will

18 Stanlisaw Lem The Seventh Sally or How Trurl’s Own Perfection Led to No Good

Reflections

19 Stanislaw Lem Non Serviam

Reflections

20 Raymond M. Smullyan Is God a Taoist?

Reflections

2 1 Jorge Luis Borges The Circular Ruins

Reflections

2 2 John R. Searle Minds, Brains and Programs

1 The Systems Reply (Berkeley) 2. The Robot Reply (Yale). 3. The Brain Simulator Reply (Berkeley and M.I.T.). 4. The Combination Reply (Berkeley and Stanford). 5. The Other Minds Reply (Yale). 6. The Many Mansions Reply (Berkeley). Reflections

2 3 Raymond M. Smullyan An Unfortunate Dualist

Reflections

VI. The Inner Eye

2 4 Thomas Nagel What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Reflections

2 5 Raymond M. Smullyan An Epistemological Nightmare

Reflections

26 Douglas R. Hofstadter A Conversation with Einstein’s Brain

Reflections

27 Robert Nozick Fiction

Note From the Author