Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:24:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anne Foerst <annef@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: invitation to public lecture series
GOD AND COMPUTERS
Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics
Public Lecture Series
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Wednesdays, MIT 34-101, 50 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Refreshments 4:15 p.m., talk 4:30-5:30 p.m.
SCHEDULE:
Oct 1: "GOD, THE SCIENTIST", Paul Penfield, head of the MIT
Department for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oct 8: "HOW HUMANS EVOLVED A SENSE OF SELF AND AN UNDERSTANDING
OF THEIR MORTALITY", Marc Hauser, Associate Professor,
Departments of Anthropology & Psychology, Program in
Neurosciences, Harvard University
Oct 15: "BRAIN, MIND AND SPIRITUALITY", Ming Tsuang, head Harvard
Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental
Health Center; director Harvard Institute of Psychiatric
Epidemiology and Genetics
Oct 22: "ARTIFICIAL HUMANITY", Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Oct 29: "SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT IN STUDYING SCIENCE", Federico
Girosi, Principal Research Scientist, Associate Director of the
Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT
Nov 5: "WHY A SCIENCE OF MIND IMPLIES THE TRANSCENDENCE OF
NATURE", Francisco Varela, Director of Research, Laboratory of
Cognitive Neuroscience, National Center for Scientific Research,
Paris, France
Nov 12: "ALL IS FOREKNOWN, BUT FREE WILL IS GIVEN", Lynn Andrea
Stein, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Laboratory for
Computer Science, MIT.
Nov 19: "INTELLIGENCE AND GOD: SHANKARA'S VIEW OF THE WORLD AND
ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE", Bijoy Misra, Faculty in
Computer Science, Harvard Extension School; Consultant in
Radiology and Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham
Women's Hospital
Dec 3: "THE AGE OF SPIRITUAL MACHINES", Ray Kurzweil, Chairman
and CEO of Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc.
Dec 10: "TOWARD MACHINES THAT CAN DENY THEIR MAKER", Rosalind
W. Picard, NEC Development Professor of Media Technology, MIT
Media Lab
Abstracts will be published one week before the talk on the
website http://www.ai.mit.edu/events/god-and-computers.html.
For information please contact Anne Foerst, annef@ai.mit.edu,
Tel: (617) 253-7891 or the Boston Theological Institute,
bti@world.std.com, Tel: (617) 527-4880.
-- Dr.theol. Anne Foerst Postdoctoral FellowMassachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology SQ, NE 43 - 812 Cambridge, MA 02139 +1 / 617 / 253-7891
Harvard Divinity School Center for the Studies of Values in Public Life 56 Francis Ave Cambridge, MA 02138
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