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Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Intelligent Machines
A blog dedicated to machine learning and artificial intelligence. It aims at providing information about up-to-date tools and methods of the domain to the casual user.

SENS
A practical approach to developing real anti-aging medicine.

John McCarthy's AI home page. McCarthy is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University, and here provides links to many papers and resources concerning artificial intelligence.

New Humanist and New Humanist Blog
The London based magazine of the Rationalist Association, promoting reason, debate and free thought since 1885.

The HAL Project
By Joe Makenzie
Stanley Kubrick would be proud. This website's slick graphics recreate the look and feel of HAL 9000 from the 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Interiors and consoles from the spaceship Discovery are recreated in exquisite detail.

Consciousness and Existence as a Process (884 kb pdf)
By Recardo Manzotti
This paper presents a view of direct conscious perception that supposes that there is a unity between the activity in the brain and the events in the external world.

Synchronous Firing and its Influence on the Brain's Electromagnetic Field: Evidence for an Electromagnetic Field Theory of Consciousness (148 kb pdf)
By Johnjoe McFadden
The human brain consists of approximately 100 billion electrically active neurons that generate an endogenous electromagnetic (em) field. This paper proposes that the brain's em information field is the physical substrate of conscious awarness.

The Conscious Electromagnetic Information (Cemi) Field Theory: The Hard Problem Made Easy? (112 kb pdf)
By Johnjoe McFadden
This paper demonstrates that the Electromagnetic Information (Cemi) Field Theory is robust to criticisms. It further explores implications of the theory particularly as regards to the relationship between electromagnetic fields, information, the phenomenology of consciousness and the meaning of free will.

Resource: The Evolution of Complex Systems
By Umur Ozkul
A directory of online papers dealing with the Evolution of Complex Systems. More >>