Scribner Seminar Program
Course Description
Mind Design
Instructor (s): Flip Phillips, Psychology
What are the critical components of 鈥榤ind鈥�? Can words like mind, conciousness, behavior,
and awareness be adequately defined in order to properly answer this question? In
this seminar, we survey the philosophical, psychological, biological, computational
and design notions of what it would take to implement a mind. Discussions of the current
and future state of our understanding of mind are replete with such notions as 鈥榓rtificial
intelligence鈥�, 鈥榚xpert systems鈥�, and other trans- and post-human concepts. Are any
of these existing frameworks adequate to yield a veridical implementation of mind?
Will some other approach be necessary? Or, are we ultimately destined to fail at this
task?
Course Offered