Mirrors on Ourselves: Attempts to Build Artificial People

Elaine Rich

Are We So Special?

Our Closest Relatives - Champanzees

·        The Jane Goodall Institute

·        Mapping DNA sequences

·        Mapping similarities between humans and chimpanzees

·        New Genome Comparison Finds Chimps, Humans Very Similar at the DNA Level

·        Some excerpts from Science Week

Consciousness

·        Samuel Butler’s Erewhon

·        John Searle’s Chinese room argument

·        Searle’s original paper, “Minds, Brains and Programs

·        The Wikipedia page

·        The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article

Art and Music

·        Aaron – a computer artist

·        Music

·        A history of computer music

·        David Cope’s EMI system

·        Doug Hofstadter’s comments on EMI

·        Jazz improvisation

Cyborgs

·        The Wrong Trousers

·        I Am the Very Model of a Singularitarian