Links

Here are some links to other sites that you might find useful. These are just some suggestions from my own explorations and this is by no means meant to be an exhaustive list. However, I shall add more as and when I can.

Chapter 1

There are many good sites with introductions to the problem of consciousness including  Wikipedia  and the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy entry on Consciousness.

Dave Chalmers' website is a rich source of information on consciousness studies, find out about the people who have published on consciousness and enjoy his Photo gallery. He also maintains an extensive list of Online Papers on Consciousness. You might even enjoy his Philosophical Humor

 Chapter 2

 Chapter 3

 Chapter 4

 Chapter 5

 Find out more about the attentional blink  – try a demo for yourself. Other demos can be found here and here.

Look at the flash-lag illusion, and with explanations and overview.

Find out about the cutaneous rabbit illusion and watch some demonstrations. 

See the Phi Phenomenon, in different versions, in early photography. See also colour phi,  and demo

For more on William James try Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy or Wikipedia

Chapter 6

 For more on Vilayanur Ramachandran visit Wikipedia or his own website which has not only a full list of publications but lots of examples of illusions.

 You can watch his TED talk ‘A journey to the centre of your mind’

 Information about the Flash lag illusion is available on Wikipedia and more information and experiments can be found here and here.

There are many sites on stage magic, conjuring and The Magic Circle .

Here is a psychology experiment using the Vanishing Ball Illusion

Find a variety of tricks for the human brain.

Chapter 12

Find out what brain damage can reveal about the connection between cerebral tissue and the mind by watching: Ramachandran on your mind.

 Chapter 15

Deception definition

Watch examples of self recognition in apes

Research study on deception using a wii remote

The rouge test: self recognition video

Marian Dawkins Website

Chapter 16

Alan Turing website

Information on Wikipedia about the The Turing Test and watch video

Alan Winfield's site has information on swarm robotics and artificial culture, also see his blog. And for more on robots see Owen Holland,

MIT has several robot projects including humanoid robots, personal robots, and space robots.
 

Chapter 17

Machine Consciousness Overview Website

Machine consciousness lab videos

Humanoid robots video

There is lots of John Searle, the Chinese Room Argument and the Robot Reply  

Watch Ray Kurzweil and David Gelernter debate The mind, machines and mathematics in a public debate

Chapter 18   

Rodney Brooks Website

Rodney Brooks: How will robots invade our lives Ted lecture

Rodney Brooks: Thinking robots video 

Kismet the robot information on Wikipedia

Kismet robot in action video 

Conscious Robots website

IEE Spectrum website

More on the CogAff architecture

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