The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul

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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 -- Turing test: a coffeehouse conversation / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- Princess Ineffabelle / Stanislaw Lem -- Soul of Martha, a beast / Terrel Miedaner -- Soul of the Mark III Beast / Terrel Miedaner -- Spirit / Allen Whellis -- Selfish genes and selfish memes / Richard Dawkins -- Prelude ... ant fugue / Douglas Hofstadter -- 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 -- Riddle of the Universe and its solution / Christopher Cherniak -- 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 -- Circular ruins / Jorge Luis Borges -- Minds, brains, and programs / John R. Searle -- Unfortunate dualist / Raymond M. Smullyan -- What is it like to be a bat? / Thomas Nagel -- Espistemological nightmare / Raymond M. Smullyan -- Conversation with Einstein's brain / Douglas R. Hofstadter -- Fiction / Robert Nozick