Thursday, October 29, 2015

What do we think about when we think about thinking ?


How Much Consciousness Does an Octopus Have?
By Emily Reynolds
Neuroscience 07 October 15
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/07/how-much-consciousness-octopus-iphone

Books

*M. J. Wells, 1962. Brain and Behavior in Cephalopods

*Margaret Boden, 1977. Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465004563

*Marvin Minsky, 1986. The Society of Mind
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-868j-the-society-of-mind-fall-2011/

Roger T. Hanlon, John B. Messenger, 1996. Cephalopod Behaviour

Patricia Churchland, 2014. In response to "Storm Over the Brain"
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jun/19/brains-and-minds-exchange/

*Paul Churchland, 1988. Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/matter-and-consciousness

*Patricia Churchland, 1992. The Computational Brain, The MIT Press
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computational-brain

*Daniel C. Dennett, 1991. Consciousness Explained
https://youtu.be/vkaS5JWZ1hY
https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/dennett-consciousness.html

John Ratley, 2001. A User's Guide to the Brain: Perception, Attention, and the Four Theaters of the Brain”

*Adam Zeman, 2002. Consciousness: A User’s Guide

Articles

Annalee Newitz, 2010. Three arguments for the consciousness of cephalopods, ion,
http://io9.com/5626679/three-arguments-for-the-consciousness-of-cephalopods