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