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    Footnotes

  • 1. McCorduck, Pamela. Machines Who Think. 1979. pg. 3.
  • 2. Dreyfus, Hubert L. What Computers Still Can't Do. 1993. pg. 85.
  • 3. Hamilton, Sheryl. "The Last Chess Game."2000. pg 340.
  • 4. Dreyfus, Hubert L. What Computers Still Can't Do. 1993. pg. 292.
  • 5. Adams, Douglas. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. 1986. pg. 111.
  • 6. Demasio, Antonio. Descartes' Error. 1994 pg. 36.
  • 7. Dreyfus, Hubert L. What Computers Still Can't Do. pg. 296.
  • 8. Searle, John R. The Rediscovery of the Mind. pg. 107.
  • 9. Transcript taken at http://www.alicebot.org/ on 9 December 2002.
  • 10. Transcript taken at http://www.alicebot.org/ on 11 December 2002.
  • 11. Ray, Thomas S. "What Tierra Is." http://www.isd.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/whatis.html
  • 12. Ray, Thomas S. "What Tierra Is." http://www.isd.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/whatis.html
  • 13. Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman. 1999. pg. 225.
  • 14. Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman. 1999. pg. 238. Hayles is here paraphrasing the comments of Michael Dyer.
  • 15. Hayes, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman. 1999. pg. 243.
  • 16. Hayes, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman. 1999. pg. 245.
  • 17. Hayes, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman. 1999. pg. 243.
  • 18. Hayes, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman. 1999. pg. 243.
  • 19. Searle, John. "Minds, Brains, and Programs." The Mind's I. 1980. pg. 355.
  • 20. Dreyfus, Hubert L. What Computers Still Can't Do. 1993. pg. 290.
  • 21. Dreyfus, Hubert L. What Computers Still Can't Do. 1993. pg. 275.
  • 22. Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. 1950. pg. 40.
  • 23. Rucker, Rudy. "Software". The Mind's I. 1981. pg. 259.
  • 23. See Stanislaw Lem's Solaris and David Brin's Earth.