BCIG Bookclub: “The Emotion Machine: Commonsense
Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind”
by Marvin
Minsky
Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical
Board Room (Room 2C116)
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will be reviewed
by this colorful
team of BCIG volunteers:
Introduction - Jim DeLeo -
2 minutes
1. Falling in Love (We are
born with many mental resources) - Kim Thompson - 5 minutes
2. Attachments and Goals
(We learn more from interacting with others) - Carl Leonard - 5 minutes
3. From Pain to Suffering
(Emotions are different Ways to Think) - Jerry McLaughlin - 5 minutes
4. Consciousness (We learn
to think about our recent thoughts) - Minjung Kwak - 5 minutes
5. Levels of Mental
Activity (We learn to think on multiple levels) - Alex Shostko - 5 minutes
6. Common Sense (We
accumulate huge stores of commonsense knowledge) - Gary Berg-Cross - 5 minutes
7. Thinking (We
switch among different ways to think) - Nada Vydelingum - 5 minutes
8. Resourcefulness (We
find multiple ways to represent things) - Chuck Selden - 5 minutes
9. The Self (We build
multiple models of ourselves) - Claudia Gebert - 5 minutes
*** Presenters: Please see “Presenters’ Guidelines”
below. ***
A group dialogue about the book will follow the
presentations.
Presenters’ Guidelines:
(1) have really good Power Point slides – clear and not busy, (2) use your first
slide to introduce yourself (see “Presenters’ First Slide” below.) (3)
observe your time limit, (4)
answer pressing questions quickly, save longer discussion for the dialogue
session that follows.
Presenters’
First Slide:
Your first slide should contain the following information: (1) your name, (2)
your affiliation, (3) your interests in general, (4) your relationship to the
book’s subject matter, (5) questions that come up for you as you read the book –
questions that you might like to explore in the dialogue that will follow the
presentations, (6) an early picture of yourself, or a cartoon image of yourself,
or chosen avatar you can relate to, e. g. an action hero figure.
Note to presenters: If you would like another chapter, please contact me ASAP – Jim DeLeo
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This event is sponsored by the NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG)
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5:30 pm- 7:00 pm October 23, 2008
“I hope the book will be useful to everyone who seeks ideas about how human
minds might work, or who wants suggestions about better ways to think, or who
aims toward building smarter machines. It should be useful to readers who want
to learn about the field of Artificial Intelligence. It should also be of
interest to psychologists, neurologists computer scientists and philosophers
because it develops many new ideas about the subjects these specialists struggle
with.”
Prof. Marvin Minsky |
