Thought Probes

Mental Relay Stations: Is the brain nothing more that a mental relay station sending and receiving signals from the mind?
How does your soul fit into your brain? (http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/atheism/brain.html) Article by Adrian Barnett identifying problems with the traditional doctrine of the soul



The Brain vs. the Soul (http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/brain2000215.html) Article by Dan Falk on the problems neurophysiology raises for the traditional doctrine of the soul



Causal arguments for materialism (http://www.princeton.edu/~jimpryor/courses/intro/notes/causalargs.html) Lecture notes by James Pryor (Princeton University) outlining problems faced by the soul theory



Eccles' How the Self Controls Its Brain (http://manuel.bremer.bei.t-online.de/ECCLES.pdf) Review by Manuel E. Bremer (University of Dusseldorf)

Speciesism: If you found that a loved one was not made out of flesh and blood, would you love them less?
Revenge of the Zombies (http://members.aol.com/lshauser/zombies.html) Article by Larry Hauser (Alma College) considering the possibility that your mother's a zombie



What Robots Can and Can't Be (http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000418/) Book summary by Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselear Polytechnic Institute) arguing that robots cannot be persons



Do Androids Dream? MIT is Working on It (http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/annef/nyt-2.htm) Article from the New York Times by Claudia Dreifus on MIT's God and Computers project



Robot Servants (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/future/robots.html) Article by John McCarthy (Stanford University) on the effects of using robots as servants



Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (http://www.justlikethat.com/client/philosophy_user/ai.html) An examination of the ethical implications of advances in artificial intelligence

Neural Prostheses: Would you replace damaged brain cells with computer chips?
Neural Prosthesis Program (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/npp/) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke



Neural Prostheses: Brain (http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/cpace/prosthesis/stein/brain.html) Discussion of how neural prostheses may affect us



Should there be a limit placed on the integration of humans and computers and electronic ... (http://www.limmat.ch/koni/texte/cyborg-ethics.html) Article by Steve Mizrach describing the pros and cons of neural prostheses



Brain Implantable Bio-mimetic Electronics As the Next Era in Neural Prosthetics (http://bmsr.usc.edu/Research/pubs/vzm/993.pdf) Article by Ted Berger et. al.

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