Final exam, Saturday 12/13, 9-noon, MBH 530.
Fun link of the week: Escher and the Droste effect - check out the animations.
Online discussion
First papers
Second papers
Final exam, Saturday 12/13, 9-noon, MBH 530.
Fun link of the week: Escher and the Droste effect - check out the animations.
| Wk | Day | Readings, Assignments, and Topics |
| 0 | Thu 9/4 | Introduction, course info, what is intelligence? |
| 1 | Tue 9/9 |
Reading: Preface to the 20th anniversary edition, Introduction: A Musico-Logical Offering,
Three-Part Invention Due: Response paper Class: Presentation topics; Prov and Improv problem |
| Thu 9/11 | Reading: Ch I: The MU-puzzle Due: Response paper Presentations by Hiba (ACE) and David Guertin (technology) Class: Library, citing and plagiarism; the MU-puzzle | |
| 2 | Tue 9/16 | Reading: Two-Part Invention, Ch II: Meaning and Form in Mathematics Due: Response paper and bibliography Class: Exercises with formal systems and syllogisms |
| Thu 9/18 | Reading: Sonata for Unaccompanied Achilles, Ch III: Figure and Ground,
Contracrostipunctus Due: Exercise set #1. Solutions. Presentations: Theorems about primes (Jay), Fermat's Last Theorem (Josh) Class: Performance of Contracrostipunctus (Porter and Diego) | |
| 3 | Tue 9/23 | Reading: Ch IV: Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry Due: Response paper Library workshop - Meet in Library room #105. Library resources Presentation: Euclid's Elements and Non-Euclidean Geometry (Derek M.) |
| Thu 9/25 |
Presentations: Zeno's Paradoxes (Eli), Pythagoras and
Irrational Numbers (Daniel), Bach's Art of the Fugue (John) | |
| 4 | Tue 9/30 | Reading: Little Harmonic Labyrinth, Ch V: Recursive Structures and Processes Due: Response paper Presentations: Cantor Diagonalization and Uncountability (Mike), Cantor Set and other Fractals (Porter) Class: More on the Cantor Set |
| Thu 10/2 | Reading:
Canon by Intervallic Augmentation, Ch VI: The Location of Meaning
Due: Response paper and one-page abstract of your paper Presentations: Fibonacci and the Golden Mean (Derek W.), John Cage (Yoji) Class: Introduction to The Propositional Calculus | |
| 5 | Tue 10/7 | Reading: Chromatic Fantasy, And Feud, Ch VII: The Propositional Calculus Due: two copies of first drafts of papers and Exercise set #2. Solutions. Presentations: Lewis Carroll and Logic (Kelsey), Babbage and Lovelace (Nicole) Class: Peer editing workshop |
| Thu 10/9 | Reading: Crab Canon, Ch VIII: Typographical Number Theory Due: completed peer editing worksheets (in class) and Exercise set #3 (by Wed 2 pm). Solutions. Presentations: Alan Turing (Diego), René Magritte (Mariana) Class: Review of the Propositional Calculus and TNT | |
| 6 | Tue 10/14 | Midterm break |
| Thu 10/16 | Reading: A Mu Offering, Ch IX: Mumon and Gödel Due: Second draft of papers. Also, start on Exercise set #4 Presentation: Zen Buddhism (Christina) | |
| 7 | Tue 10/21 | Zen meditation - taught by Christina Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D minor - performed by Yoji and Josh Due: Exercise set #4. Solutions. |
| Thu 10/23 | Reading: Prelude..., Ch X: Levels of Description, and Computer Systems Due: Final draft of papers Class: Introduce second project | |
| 8 | Tue 10/28 | Reading: ...Ant Fugue, Ch XI: Brains and Thoughts Due: Response paper |
| Thu 10/30 | Reading: English French German Suite, Ch XII: Minds and Thoughts Due: Translation, with commentary | |
| 9 | Tue 11/4 | Reading: Aria with Diverse Variations, Ch XIII: BlooP and FlooP and GlooP Due: draft of extended response essay Class: Peer editing workshop |
| Thu 11/6 | Reading: Air on G's String, Ch XIV: On Formally Undecidable Propositions of TNT
and Related Systems Due: Final drafts of extended response essay Class: Lecture and discussion of Gödel's Theorem | |
| 10 | Tue 11/11 | Reading: Birthday Cantatatata..., Ch XV: Jumping out of the System Due: Bibliographies for presentations, Proposal for final paper topic |
| Thu 11/13 | Reading: Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker, Ch XVI: Self-Ref and Self-Rep Presentation: Brains and Minds update (Eli, Kelsey) Online discussion | |
| 11 | Tue 11/18 | Reading: The Magnificrab Indeed, Ch XVII: Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others Presentation: Brain and Music (Mariana, Daniel) Due: Bibliography and outline/abstract for final paper Online discussion |
| Thu 11/20 | Reading: SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing, Ch XVIII: Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects Presentations: AI and Games (Porter, Mike); AI and Philosophy (Josh, John, Jay) Due: First drafts of final paper due Friday for 8 students NOT presenting this week Online discussion | |
| 12 | Tue 11/25 | Reading: Contrafactus, Ch XIX: Artificial Intelligence: Prospects Presentation: AI and Creativity (Christina, Diego, Nicole) Due: Remaining first drafts of final paper Online discussion |
| Thu 11/27 | Thanksgiving break | |
| 13 | Tue 12/2 | Reading: Sloth Canon, Ch XX: Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies Presentation: Theories of Consciousness (Yoji, Derek, Derek) Online discussion |
| Thu 12/4 | Reading: Six-Part Ricercar Due: Final drafts of second paper Class: Review, relax, summarize, celebrate |
Final exam: Saturday, 12/13, 9:00am - 12:00pm, MBH 530