• Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds by Daniel C. Dennett
  • Cool Robot of the Week: http://ranier.hq.nasa.gov/telerobotics_page/coolrobots.html
  • The Rossum Project
  • Watch a robotic mole
  • Minds, Brains and Science by John Searle
  • The Society of the Mind by Marvin Minsky
  • Computers Ltd.: What they really can't do by David Harel
  • Artificial Minds by Stan Franklin
  • The Seeing Eye by C. S. Lewis (especially the essay entitled "Subjectivism")
  • That Hideous Strength - by C.S. Lewis
  • Out of the Silent Planet - by C.S. Lewis
  • Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
  • Are artificial and intelligence contradictions in terms?
  • AI and Robotics Research Page http://www.ncc.com/misc/ai_sites.html
  • Artificial Intelligence and A-Life http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/ai
  • Biology, Consciousness, and the Definition of Death http://www.pauf.umd.edu/IPPP/winter98/biology_consciousness.htm
  • The Robotics Institute Current Projects List http://www.ri.cmu.edu/project_lists/projects_by_subject_0.html
  • Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness http://assc.caltech.edu
  • Philosophy of Consciousness http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/online.html
  • The Mystery of Consciousness by John R. Searle
  • Signs of Design edited by William Dembski and James M. Kushiner
  • Artificial Brains - Artificial intelligence and artificial brain building research.
  • Design Inference http://www.arn.org/dembski/wdhome.htm
  • Time - how long was it before thinking beings existed on this earth???
  • Robot Stores - Robots for sale on the internet
  • Robot Combat - actually taking place NOW
  • Military Robots now in development or in use and other Robots in the NEWS http://www.robotbooks.com/war-robots.htm
  • Robotic Labs - Berkley http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/

    Video recommended
  • 2001 & 2010 Space Odysseys (1968 and 1984)
  • AI - Artificial Intelligence (2001)
  • Matrix (1999) (available in the library)
  • Star Trek (watch on TV especially pay attention to how Data is portrayed)
  • The Terminator
  • Westworld (1973)
  • Fast, Cheap and Out of Control