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Pretty much all of these pieces were written before I started my PhD in 2003.
Analogy-making
- Learning by analogy – making Copycat curious
- written for the Curious machines class on possible future directions forHofstadter et al.’s Copycat family
Undergraduate philophy thesis on rationality
- ‘Is a naturalistic account of reason compatible with its objectivity?’ (150K)
- accompanying swathes of notes (600K) that I don’t know what to do with
Undergraduate notes and essays
- all my notes and essays from my undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Psychology & Physiology
Old scribblings and bursts of creativity
- final essay for Marvin Minsky‘s class, ‘Society of Mind’, written with Steve Larson - this draft includes the more interesting ideas and C&C matrix that were trimmed in the final version
- philosophical dialogue on the Matrix
- undergraduate essay on animal language
- mumblings and misconceptions - half-formed thoughts about AI, cognitive science and philosophy (250K)
- blatherings and babblings about more or less (80K)
- and even more
Conch
- The Oxford Consciousness Society webpage (now very defunct)
Comedy
- I tried stand-up comedy a couple of times. This was an early version
