Monthly Archives: April 2003

Funny Philosophy

This article reads more like a Douglas Adams story than a work of a philosopher. It’s quite readable, even to the layman, and it’s hilarious. If you’ve ever wondered about mind, body, identity, and other issues in the philosophy of psychology, this is a fun place to start your exploration.

“Where Am I?”
DANIEL C. DENNETT

Now that I’ve won my suit under the Freedom of Information Act, I am at liberty to reveal for the first time a curious episode in my life that may be of interest not only to those engaged in research in the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience but also to the general public.

Kickin’ It Old School

Ah…the good old days. 🙂

A world without the Internet
ONLINE REVOLUTION BEGAN 25 YEARS AGO IN CHICAGO — AND IT TOOK JUST A MONTH
By Patrick Kampert

“Imagine a world without the Internet. Without e-mail. Without Windows or Apples. Heck, for that matter, imagine a world without PCs. That’s what the world was like 25 years ago when two Chicago guys named Ward Christensen and Randy Suess officially launched the world’s first computerized bulletin board system (BBS). It took them less than a month to create it. And in typical Chicago fashion, a snowstorm got an assist in the invention.”