sex and embodiment

• science fiction
• science fact
• remarks

science fiction readings

• Greg Egan
• Axiomatic (especially the story Closer)
• Wang's Carpets (this is Chapter 11 of Diaspora)
• Permutation City
• Distress
• Ursula LeGuin
• The Left Hand of Darkness
• Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb, of Rer, in Karhide, on Gethen
• Richard Powers
• Galatea 2.2

science fact readings

1. the original Turing Test (the Imitation Game, or guessing the gender of the person on the other side of an instant messenger link) — Computing machinery and intelligence, A. Turing, Mind 49:433-460 (1950)
2. *Turing Test: the first 50 years, R. French, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4:115-122 (2000)
3. *Imprinted genes, cognition and behavior, A. R. Isles and L. S. Wilkinson, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 4:309-318 (2000)
4. *Radical embodiment: Neural dynamics and consciousness, E. Thompson and F. Varela, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5:418-425 (2001)
5. Gender differences in cognition and learning [a collection of links, mostly to popular material]
6. Neurophenomenology
7. Phenomenology and cognitive sciences

remarks

• meeting 1: Egan; Turing, French (Mar 3)
• meeting 2: LeGuin; Isles and Wilkinson (Mar 10)
• meeting 3: LeGuin; Thompson and Varela (Mar 24)