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Readings

Additional readings can be found in the Commonsense Bibliography located in the Related Resources section.

Required Textbooks

Amazon logo Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1988. ISBN: 9780671657130.

Amazon logo ———. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2006. ISBN: 9780743276634.

Suggested Readings

Minsky, Marvin, and Seymour Papert. Progress Report on Artificial Intelligence, 1971. Same as Project MAC progress report VIII, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, July 1970-1971, pp. 129-224.

Singh, Push. EM-ONE: An Architecture for Reflective Commonsense Thinking. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2005.

Hearn, Robert. Building Grounded Abstractions for Artificial Intelligence Programming. Masters thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2001.

Readings by Session

The readings assigned during a session were discussed at the next week's session.

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction The Emotion Machine, Preface and chapter 1
2 Falling in love Progress Report on Artificial Intelligence, 1971
3

Guest lecturer

Google video: Computers versus Common Sense by Doug Lenat

 The Emotion Machine, Chapter 2
4 Attachments and goals The Emotion Machine, Chapter 3
5 From pain to suffering The Emotion Machine, Chapter 4
6 Consciousness The Emotion Machine, Chapter 4 (cont.)
7 Consciousness (cont.)

The Emotion Machine, Chapter 5

Chapter 1 of Singh, Push. EM-ONE: An Architecture for Reflective Commonsense Thinking. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2005.
8 Levels of mental activities The Emotion Machine, Chapter 6
9 Common sense The Emotion Machine, Chapter 7
10 Thinking  
11-12 Resourcefulness The Emotion Machine, Chapter 8
13 The self The Emotion Machine, Chapter 9