Truth
An
International,
Inter-Disciplinary
Journal of
Christian
Thought
Volume 2 (1988)
Artificial
Intelligence and the
Human
Mind
Truth: A Journal of Modern Thought and The International
Institute of Mankind co-sponsored Artificial
Intelligence and the Human Mind, an international, inter-
disciplinary conference held on the Yale University campus, March 1-3,
1986. A report on the conference in AI magazine (the official
publication of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence),
Fall 1987, noted "the historic proportions of the debate and the
personalities involved" and the fact that the sponsors "had contrived to
assemble the biggest scientific guns they could find to support a
dualist position and paired them off against the leading exponents of
the opposing position."
For reasons of space, only a few of the papers presented at the
conference are included below. Volume 2 is edited by Professor Joseph
Mellichamp, University of Alabama.
Contents, Volume 2 (1988)
Introduction
- Roy Abraham Varghese introduces this issue.
-
A Homily on a Simile:
Artificial Intelligence and the Human Mind
- Professor Daniel N. Robinson, Chairman, Department of Psychology,
Georgetown writes an introductory commentary on the issues discussed at
the conference and in these papers.
-
Minds are Simply what Brains
Do
- Professor Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Minds or Machines
- Dr. John Beloff
-
Dualism through
Reductionism
- Professor Hans Moravec, Carnegie-Mellon University
-
The Effect of Silent Thinking
on the Cerebral Cortex
- Sir John Eccles
-
Artificial Intelligence as
Common Sense Knowledge
- Professor Douglas Lenat
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The Godelian Argument
- Dr. J. R. Lucas, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford
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Postscript
- Professor Joseph Mellichamp, University of Alabama