Old writing
Mostly written before I started my PhD in 2003.
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Learning by analogy - making Copycat curious (written for the Curious machines class on possible future directions for Douglas Hofstadter, Melanie Mitchell et al.'s Copycat family) (2003)
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Statement of purpose for application to MIT Media lab (2003)
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When we pass the Turing test... - scribbled essay (2002)
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Discuss the similarities and differences between genetic algorithms and natural evolution - essay (2001)
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Are we in a position to investigate whether non-human animals are conscious? - essay (2001)
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Can machines think? - essay (2000)
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Can we still look to language as the bastion of human uniqueness in the animal kingdom? - essay (2000)
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Would you take the red pill or the blue pill - a philosophy essay for a competition (rules) about the Matrix movie (2000)
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Nietzsche - concise biographical piece (1999)
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Each man kills the thing he loves - essay on Oscar Wilde (1998)
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Nietzschean morality - scraps of a thought-moment written while bored temping (1998)
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The foundations of knowledge in the Meditations - philosophy essay on Descartes (1998)
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A salesman has got to dream - long rambling essay about Death of a Salesman
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Our one true inalienable right - a somewhat morose and very short story (1997) - I don't seem to write very often when I'm feeling happy