This is the home page for CogS 4350 - the Information of Meaning, Winter, 2009.
Various things may be added here as the semester progresses, so
be sure to check back . . .
These are the primary books we will be working with:
Tapestry in the Baroque -- "The Battle of the Milvian Bridge"
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (another link . . .)
What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by A. M. Turing (simple text)
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by A. M. Turing (fancy / annotated)
The Theory Notes (in .pdf form)
King James Bible On-line version, including the Apocrypha
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (see part 4, Ch. 4, line 130+, for some stuff on Lazarus . . .)
Perspective in Western art (in .pdf form -- 6.2 megabytes)
Here are a few items related to The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers: