From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sat Feb 24 14:39:58 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l1OJdwVF011545 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:39:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from front1.acsu.buffalo.edu (warmfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.88]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l1OJdpnq086698 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:39:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 19556 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2007 19:39:51 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Feb 2007 19:39:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 19489 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2007 19:39:50 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Feb 2007 19:39:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 23361 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2007 19:39:49 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Feb 2007 19:39:49 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3533203 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:39:49 -0500 Delivered-To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 447 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2007 19:29:28 -0000 Received: from mailscan4.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.136) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Feb 2007 19:29:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 20053 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2007 19:29:27 -0000 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (64.233.184.235) by smtp4.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 24 Feb 2007 19:29:27 -0000 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i20so801636wra for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:29:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.16.1 with SMTP id t1mr121110wai.1172345361156; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.54.13 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:29:21 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2607cef46be22450 X-UB-Relay: (wr-out-0506.google.com) X-PM-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:29:21 -0500 Reply-To: Mike Prentice Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: Mike Prentice Subject: A Mind Forever Voyaging To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (wr-out-0506.google.com) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2643/Sat Feb 24 12:59:22 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 724 I don't know how many of you ever played the old Infocom text adventures (they were HARD!). I remember one I owned as a kid, and is still probably kicking around in a box in storage, was A Mind Forever Voyaging, in which the main character is a computer program that has lived its entire life in a virtual world believing it's human. I thought it was interesting and appropriate because of our focus on whether mental processes are computable and if our brains can be simulated. Here's the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging -- Mike Prentice P.S. There's an AOL Instant Messenger program (bot) that has a few of the Infocom adventures you can play on it. Message "infocombot" on AIM.