Scribblings

Final essay for Minsky's class, 'Society of Mind', written with Steve Larson - this draft includes the more interesting ideas and C&C matrix that were trimmed in the final version

Essay for Society of Mind on common sense

Statement of purpose for application to MIT Media lab

Project proposal, smattering of ideas and final paper for Deb Roy's Computational Semantics class - this didn't work out, but I hope to come back to it

Presentation [ppt] on Cantwell Smith's 'Origin of objects' for Computational Semantics

'When we pass the Turing test...' - scribbled essay (2002)

Notes on the ethics of AI (2001)

'Discuss the similarities and differences between genetic algorithms and natural evolution' - essay (2001)

'Are we in a position to investigate whether non-human animals are conscious?' - essay (2001)

'Can machines think?' - essay (2000)

'Can we still look to language as the bastion of human uniqueness in the animal kingdom?' - essay (2000)

'Would you take the red pill or the blue pill' - a philosophy essay for a competition (rules) about the Matrix (2000)

Boat club cocktails invitation (b&w) - coincidentally Matrix-themed, designed with Leila (2000)

'1000 words on 1000 years' - short essay, taking fright at our plight, and not actually 1000 words either (1999)

'On business and biology' - short introductory piece (1999)

'Nietzsche' - concise biographical piece (1999)

'Virtual reality or real virtuality?' - aimless musings on VR (1999)

'Each man kills the thing he loves' - essay on Oscar Wilde (1998)

'Song of the Going' - a suicide note put to music :) (1998)

'The Many' - think of the tramp tramp tramp as you leave Baker St station ... (1998)

Nietzschean morality - scraps of a thought-moment written while bored temping (1998)

'The foundations of knowledge in the Meditations' - philosophy essay on Descartes (1998)

'A salesman has got to dream' - long rambling essay about Death of a Salesman

'Our one true inalienable right' - a somewhat morose and very short story (1997) - I don't seem to write very often when I'm feeling happy

'Contemplation or copulation' - notes from my attempt to build an all-encompassing system that never got further than setting out the problem (1997)

'On power' - short essay written ages ago in a 1984-inspired fervour

'The futility of poetry' - essay (1994)

Mild silliness