MindPapers
David Chalmers has just announced the launch of MindPapers – an online database of mind-related papers on the Web. It’s much bigger than the bibliography he compiled and offers additional options such as submitting papers to it.
Neanderthal Speak?
An article that recently appeared in Current Biology reports that Neanderthals shared with us the gene FOXP2 — the only gene known to be involved in the development of normal linguistic competence. This suggests that, contrary to previous assumptions, Neanderthals might have had a language like we do. (A couple of quick …
ICT Theory of Mind Workshop
A workshop on theory of mind just took place at USC. The program webpage contains some links to recent work on the subject, including a review article on mirror neurons (published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience).
Two-State, Three-Symbol Turing Machine is Universal
Wolfram’s contest for proving (or disproving) whether a particular 2-state, 3-symbol (or color) Turing Machine has been won by a 20-year old engineering student from the UK. Link to write-up in Nature here.
Sleeping News
There are four articles about sleeping (1, 2, 3, 4) in today’s NY Times.
iGod
A student of mine found a bot that thinks it’s God. You can chat with it here. The conversation can be pretty funny at times.
Microsoft doesn’t rely on introspection
Here’s an interesting patent application from Microsoft. Apparently, they distrust introspective methods as advanced by Simon and Ericsson, and want to use EEG (filtered using the patented artifacts filtering method) to directly assess user interfaces.Seems like the work on neural correlates of consciousness turns out to be commercialized as well. …