Reprint. Previous ed.: New York : Basic Books, 1981

Includes selected writings of Jorge Luis Borges and others with reflections by the authors

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-482) and index

Borges and I / Jorge Luis Borges -- On having no head / D.E. Harding -- Rediscovering the mind / Harold J. Morowitz -- Computing machinery and intelligence / A.M. Turing -- The Turing test: a coffeehouse conversation / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- The Princess Ineffabelle / Stanislaw Lem -- The soul of Martha, a beast / Terrel Miedaner -- The soul of the Mark III Beast / Terrel Miedaner -- Spirit / Allen Whellis -- Selfish genes and selfish memes / Richard Dawkins -- Prelude ... ant fugue / Douglas Hofstadter -- The story of a brain / Arnold Zuboff -- Where am I? / Daniel C. Dennett

Where was I? / David Hawley Sanford

Beyond rejection / Justin Leiber -- Software / Rudy Rucker -- The riddle of the Universe and its solution / Christopher Cherniak -- The seventh Sally or How Trurl's own perfection led to no good / Stanislaw Lem -- Non serviam / Statislaw Lem -- Is God a Taoist? / Raymond M. Smullyan -- The circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- Minds, brains, and programs / John R. Searle -- An unfortunate dualist / Raymond M. Smullyan -- What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel -- An espistemological nightmare / Raymond M. Smullyan -- A conversation with Einstein's brain / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- Fiction

Robert Nozick

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