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&lt;em&gt;Note: I quite realize this notebook is grossly inadequate to its subject.
I hope to put a much better one in its place soon.&lt;/em&gt;

&lt;P&gt;&lt;em&gt;See also&lt;/em&gt;:
	&lt;a href=&quot;alife.html&quot;&gt;Artificial Life&lt;/a&gt;;
	&lt;a href=&quot;cognitive-science.html&quot;&gt;Cognitive Science&lt;/a&gt;;
	&lt;a href=&quot;learning-theory.html&quot;&gt;Learning Theory, Computational and
Statistical&lt;/a&gt;;
	&lt;a href=&quot;learning-inference-induction.html&quot;&gt;Machine Learning,
Statistical Inference and Induction&lt;/a&gt;;
	&lt;a href=&quot;multi-agent-systems.html&quot;&gt;Multi-Agent Systems&lt;/a&gt;;
	&lt;a href=&quot;neuroscience.html&quot;&gt;Neuroscience&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;P&gt;&lt;ul&gt;Recommended:
	&lt;li&gt;Valentino Braitenberg, &lt;cite&gt;Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic
Psychology&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;../reviews/vehicles/&quot;&gt;Review: Hume on Wheels, or,
One Must Imagine Frankenstein Happy&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;dennett.html&quot;&gt;Daniel Dennett&lt;/a&gt;
		&lt;ul&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Brainstorms&lt;/cite&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a
href=&quot;../reviews/brainchildren/&quot;&gt;Review: An Attempt to Introduce the
Experimental Mode of Reasoning into Moral Subjects&lt;/a&gt;]
		&lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;john-holland.html&quot;&gt;John Holland&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;cite&gt;&lt;a
href=&quot;evol-comp.html&quot;&gt;Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~brendy/&quot;&gt;Brendan Kitts&lt;/a&gt;,
&quot;&lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~brendy/life_sys.html#research&quot;&gt;AI&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
in &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~brendy/life_sys.html&quot;&gt;Intelligent Living
Systems&lt;/a&gt; [Usually a title like that makes my fingers twitch, but Kitts is
himself a very intelligent and fairly discriminating living system, even if he
does mis-spell my name.]
	&lt;li&gt;Marvin Minsky, &lt;cite&gt;The Society of Mind&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Herbert &lt;a href=&quot;simon.html&quot;&gt;Simon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;cite&gt;The Sciences of the
Artificial&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;To read:
	&lt;li&gt;Philip Agre, &lt;cite&gt;Computation and Human Experience&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Philip Agre and Ian Horswill, &quot;Lifeworld Analysis,&quot;
&lt;cite&gt;Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research&lt;/cite&gt; &lt;Strong&gt;6&lt;/strong&gt;
(1997): 111--145
	&lt;li&gt;James S. Albus and Alexander M. Meystel
		  &lt;ul&gt;
		  &lt;li&gt;&lt;cite&gt;Engineering of Mind&lt;/cite&gt;
		  &lt;li&gt;&lt;citE&gt;Intelligent Systems&lt;/cite&gt;
		  &lt;/ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Justine Cassell, Joseph Sullivan, Scott Prevost, and Elizabeth
Churchill (eds.), &lt;cite&gt;Embodied Computational Agents&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Harry M. Collins, &lt;cite&gt;Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and
Intelligent Machines&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;John C. Collins, &quot;On the Compatibility Between Physics and
Intelligent Organisms,&quot; &lt;a
href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0102024&quot;&gt;physics/0102024&lt;/a&gt; [Claims to have
a truly elegant refutation of Penrose]
	&lt;li&gt;Craig DeLancey, &lt;cite&gt;Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about the Mind and Artificial Intelligence&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Hamid R.Ekbia, &lt;cite&gt;Artificial Dreams: The Quest for Non-Biological Intelligence&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://cambridge.org/9780521703390&quot;&gt;blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;Kenneth M. Ford, Clark Glymour &amp;amp; Patrick J. Hayes (eds.),
&lt;cite&gt;Android Epistemology&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Stefano Franchi and Guven Guzeldere (eds.), &lt;cite&gt;Mechanical Bodies, Computational Minds: Artificial Intelligence from Automata to Cyborgs&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Vineet Gupta, Radha Jagadeesan and Prakash Panangaden, &quot;Approximate
reasoning for real-time probabilistic processes&quot;, &lt;a
href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.LO/0505063&quot;&gt;cs.LO/0505063&lt;/a&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Joseph Y. Halpern and Riccardo Pucella, &quot;Probabilistic Algorithmic
Knowledge&quot;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.AI/0503018&quot;&gt;cs.AI/0503018&lt;/a&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Marcus Hutter, &quot;Towards a Universal Theory of Artificial
Intelligence based on Algorithmic Probability and Sequential Decision Theory,&quot;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.AI/0012011&quot;&gt;cs.AI/0012011&lt;/a&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/christ/teachpacks/mlcourse/contents.html&quot;&gt;Learning
in robots&lt;/a&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Hector J. Levesque and Gerhard Lakemeyer, &lt;cite&gt;The Logic of
Knowledge Bases&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262122320&quot;&gt;blurb&lt;/a&gt;]
	&lt;li&gt;R. Levinson, &quot;A General Programming Language for Unified Planning
and Control,&quot; &lt;cite&gt;Artificial Intelligence&lt;/cite&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;76&lt;/strong&gt; (1995)
	&lt;li&gt;Luo Zhaohui, &lt;cite&gt;Computation and Reason: A Type Theory for
Computer Science&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Arthur B. Markman, &lt;cite&gt;Knowledge Representation&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;N. Muscettola, G. A. Dorais, C. Fry, R. Levinson and C. Plaunt, &quot;A
Unified Approach to Model-Based Planning and Execution,&quot; in
&lt;cite&gt;Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous
Systems&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Nils Nilsson, &lt;cite&gt;Artificial Intelligence&lt;/cite&gt; [New textbook
from one of the Masters]
	&lt;li&gt;John Pollock, &lt;cite&gt;How to Build a Person: A Prolegomenon&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Alex Roland and Philip Shiman, &lt;cite&gt;Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983--1993&lt;/cite&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, &lt;cite&gt;Artificial Intelligence, a
Modern Approach&lt;/cite&gt; [&lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~klinkner/&quot;&gt;Kris&lt;/a&gt; assures me it's as
good as it looks.]
	&lt;li&gt;Stuart Russell and Eric H. Wefald, &lt;cite&gt;Do the Right Thing:
Studies in Limited Rationality&lt;/cite&gt;
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