Writing

Pretty much all of these pieces were written before I started my PhD in 2003.

Writing

Analogy-making

Undergraduate philophy thesis on rationality

Undergraduate notes and essays

Old scribblings and bursts of creativity

Conch

Comedy

Analogy-making

• Learning by analogy - making Copycat curious
• written for the Curious machines class on possible future directions for Hofstadter et al.'s Copycat family

Undergraduate philophy thesis on rationality

• 'Is a naturalistic account of reason compatible with its objectivity?' (150K)
• accompanying swathes of notes (600K) that I don't know what to do with

Undergraduate notes and essays

• all my notes and essays from my undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Psychology & Physiology

Old scribblings and bursts of creativity

• final essay for Marvin 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
• philosophical dialogue on the Matrix
• undergraduate essay on animal language
• mumblings and misconceptions - half-formed thoughts about AI, cognitive science and philosophy (250K)
• blatherings and babblings about more or less (80K)
• and even more

Conch

• The Oxford Consciousness Society webpage (now very defunct)

Comedy

• I tried stand-up comedy a couple of times. This was an early version