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Mind State Management: Software of the Mind by Frank Young, Ph.D.

Applications: How to Use the Principles of Mind State Management by Frank Young, Ph.D.

Audio Visual Stimulation & Brain Growth by Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D.

Deep Design: Program Your Future in the Unconscious by Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D.

Building a Happier You From Deep Inside by Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D.

The Laughing Buddha: TECHNO-SHAMANISM AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF BLISS by Michael Hutchison

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AI Software Online

Albert One. Winner of the 1998 Loebner competition. From FringeWare. Site contains information and transcripts, but not an interactive web version of Albert. However, you can download Albert for free and interact to your heart's content.

Alice. Written by Richard S. Wallace.

Barry DeFacto. Written by Robby Glen Garner and Paco Xander Nathan. From FringeWare.

The Best Natural Language Systems on the Web. Collected by Chris Marvin.

Bob and Fnord. From Luka Crnkovic-Dodig. Fnord is the more advanced of the two, but unfinished.

The BotSpot. "The Spot for all Bots and Intelligent Agents."

Brain the Bot. Requires Microsoft Explorer 3.02 or higher. (So much for its brain.)

A Collection of Chatterbots. From Simon Lavon.

Chomskybot. Generates a new paragraph of original language on each click but won't answer your questions. By John Lawler.

Eliza

The Forbin Project. Bots talking to each other, not to you. You listen in.

Julia

NonI, MegaHAL, HeX, and SEPO. From Jason Hutchens. Contains one winner (HeX, 1996) and two second-place finishers (SEPO in 1997 and MegaHAL in 1998) in the Loebner version of the Turing Test.

Shallow Red. From Neuromedia. On the same page, read about NeuroMedia's software that helps you make your own interactive web bots.

Sid Inquisitron. From FringeWare.

Stig Barrymore

Turing Machine Java Applet. Not AI but interactive and the foundation of any possible AI. From Graham Stalker-Wilde. For other online Turing Machine simulators, see the list in the Turing Scrapbook.

Yahoo Guide to Interactive AI Programs on the Web

General

These are links to the topics of the course and the larger fields to which they belong —artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind.

The Agent Society

AI, Cognitive Science, and Robotics. Large collection of links. From Stephanie Warrick.

AI on the Web. From Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. A very large collection of links. Part of the web supplement to their popular AI textbook.

AI-Related FAQs. From Mark Kantrowitz.

AI Repositories and Resource Lists. From Carnegie-Mellon University. Extensive.

AI, VR, Alife Resources. From Alexander Chislenko. Links on artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and artificial life.

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

The Ants:  A Community of Microrobots. From James McLurkin.

The Applied AI Reference Tree of Knowledge. A user-built tree of AI topics and references.

Artificial Intelligence. From Jonathan Bowen.

Artificial Intelligence. Well-organized collection of links. From Yossi Mamroud.

Artificial Intelligence Center. At the Stanford Research Institute.

Artificial Intelligence FAQ's. From the Institute for Information Technology.

Artificial Intelligence Information. From Terry H. and Knowledge Technology.

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Web Resources. From Philip Davis.

Artificial Intelligence Links.

Artificial Intelligence Resources. From the Institute for Information Technology. Very comprehensive set of links.

Artificial Intelligence Societies and Organizations Directory

Artificial Intelligence Resources. From the Institute for Information Technology. A very good collection of links.

Artificial Life "Games" Page. From Luigi Pagliarini and others.

Artificial Life Online. From MIT Press.

Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Automated Reasoning Project. From the Australian National University.

The Brain Project. From Stephen Jones.

Can Machines Think? Graphical maps of the major positions and arguments from MacroVU. This is the web site for the maps I've been posting in the philosophy foyer during the course.

Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition. Douglas Hofstadter's research group at Indiana University.

The Cog Shop. On Cog, a robot being built at MIT.

Cognitive and Psychological Sciences on the Internet. From Scott Mainwaring.

Cognitive Science Dictionary. From Michael Dawson and David Medler.

Cognitive Science Links. From Links2Go.

Cognitive Science Links. From the York University Department of Science and Technology Studies.

The Cognitive Science Society

Complexity and Artificial Life. From Chris Lucas and CALResCo.

Computational NeuroEngineering Lab. University of Florida.

Computing Research Repository. Co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Los Alamos E-print Archive, and the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library. Searchable.

Consciousness. Links and resources. From David Chalmers.

Consciousness and the Brain: Annotated Bibliography. By Ralph Ellis and Natika Newton.

Consciousness Studies. Links and resources. From Stephen Jones.

Constructions of the Mind: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities. A special issue of the Stanford Humanities Review.

Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: An Annotated Bibliography. From David Chalmers. Jump to section on philosophy of AI.

CYC home page. From Cycorp.

CYC FAQ. From David Whitten.

Reflections on CYC. By Jorn Barger, author of The Robot Wisdom Pages.

Daniel Dennett

Dictionary of the Philosophy of Mind. Compiled by Chris Eliasmith. Also contains a link page.

The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the University of Massachusetts.

Ecology of Mind. From Vincent Kelly.

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Not the full-text but some content to supplement the print edition.

Epistemology, Consciousness, and the Mind. From the Sputnik Drug Information Zone. A good collection of links.

A Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind. From Marco Nani and Massimo Marraffa.

Foundation for Neural Networks. Headquartered in Holland.

Free Online Dictionary of Computing

The Game AI Page. From Steven Woodcock.

Glossary of the Philosophy of Mind. From Darren Brierton.

A Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Law Resources. From Michael Aikenhead.

Intelligent Software Agents. From Sverker Janson.

International Neural Network Society

International Society of Applied Intelligence

Internet Softbot Research

The Life Artificial Life Page

Mind and Body, From Descartes to William James. From Robert Wozniak.

Mind/Brain Resources. Very good set of links. From Valerie Gray Hardcastle.

Mind Uploading Page. From Joe Strout.

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. Requires registration ("subscription"), at no charge.

MIT LCS/AI Reading Room Catalog. Searchable catalog of AI literature at MIT.

The Natural Language Software Registry

Net Culture Artificial Life & Intelligence Archive. From The Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Neural Information Processing Systems. At Carnegie Mellon University.

Neural Network FAQ

Neural Networks. From Z Solutions in Atlanta.

Neural Networks Council. From the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Neuron Emulation List. Ways to emulate neurons in hardware and software.

NEuroNet. From Chris Hinton.

Neuroscience for Kids. From Eric Chudler.

Neurosciences on the Internet. From Neil Busis.

Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science

Online Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor. University of Oregon.

Online Papers on Consciousness. Collected by David Chalmers. Jump to the papers on the philosophy of AI, on the Turing Test, or on the Chinese Room.

Other courses like this one.

Minds and Machines. By Ned Block at New York University.

Minds and Machines. By Alex Byrne at MIT.

Minds and Machines. By Varol Akman, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey).

Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. By Varol Akman, Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey).

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. From Selmer Bringsjord.

Philosophy of Mind. By Murat Aydede at the University of Chicago.

Philosophy of Mind. By Curtis Brown at Trinity University.

The Outsider's Guide to Artificial Intelligence. From Jorn Barger, author of The Robot Wisdom Pages.

Philosophy and AI:  Annotated Bibliography. From Brian Rosmaita.

Philosophy and the Neurosciences Online Resources. From Pete Mandik.

A Philosophy of Artificial Life Bibliography. By Brian Keeley.

Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science Page. From Alan Laser.

Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science. From Joe Lau.

The Pre-History of Cognitive Science. From Carl Stahmer.

The Principia Cybernetica Project. Using systems science and cybernetics to answer philosophical questions.

Sante Fe Institute

SIGART. The special interest group (SIG) on artificial intelligence (ART) from the Association for Computing Machinery. Has an excellent page of links.

Some Philosophy and AI Material. From Derrin Arnett.

Thoughts on Emergence. By David Chalmers.

Turing Test competitions in real-life.

BBC Turing Test. Also see the invitation in the press, and the summary.

The Loebner Prize Competition. Also see Michael Mauldin's paper on the Loebner Competition, which includes some interesting detail and transcripts. Also see the 1994 winner Thom Whalen's How I Lost the [1995] Contest and Re-Evaluated Humanity.

Turing Test 1998. From FringeWare, Inc.

The Turing Test Homepage. From Pinar Saygin and Varol Akman.

Useful Links for Cognitive Sciences. From Wlodek Duch. A large list of links.

WWW Resources in Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind. From Joe Lau. A good collection of links.

Zombies Invade Philosophy. Papers and links on zombies by Larry Hauser.

Zombies on the Web. Links and thoughts on zombies by David Chalmers.

Journals

AI Magazine

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Review. "An International Survey and Tutorial Journal."

Artificial Life

Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Searchable.

Canadian AI Magazine. From the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence.

Cognitive Science. "A Multidisciplinary Journal."

Cognitive Sciences. "A Journal of Literatures and Human Sciences."

Computational Intelligence. From the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence.

Connexions. "Current Research in Cognitive Science."

Consciousness and Cognition

Cybernetics and Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics and Cyber-Semiotics

Evolutionary Computation

IEEE Transactions Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Psyche An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness.

International Journal of Applied Expert Systems

International Journal of Neural Systems

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

Journal of Automated Reasoning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Journal of Consciousness Studies. Abstracts only.

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Journal of Intelligent Systems

Machine Learning

Minds and Machines. Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science.

Neuroscience-Net

Northwest Artificial Intelligence Forum

PC AI Magazine Popular and innovative applications of AI.

Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) Newsletter. From the Washington University PNP doctoral program.

PC AI Magazine

Psyche A journal of research on consciousness.

THINK Journal of the Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence.

Cognitive Approaches

Learned Optimism

Positive Psychology

NLP Info

Rational Emotive Therapy

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (Explanation)

Humor, Health & Happiness

The American Association for Therapeutic Humor

Comedy.com

The Comic Strip

Funny Stuff

Giggle Soup for the Soul

Happiness Research

Healing Humor

How to Stay Stressed

Humor Antidote for Stress (article)

Humor Archives

Humor as a defense mechanism in the Holocaust

Humor Shots

Yogic Laughter from Laughter Club International

13 Ways to Die Prematurely

The International Center for Humor and Health

Laughter Quotes from the Chicago Laughter Club

LaughWEB

Mental Health Humor

MustBHappy.com - Comedy

The Boss Sucks

Psychology Humor Page

Reducing Heart Disease Through Humor

Snapshots Cartoons

Stressed Eric BBC

Stressed Eric Home Page

The 1996 Darwin Awards

World Laughter Tour Articles

Self-Esteem

California State Task Force Report

National Association for Self-Esteem (NASE)

Peak Performance, Self Esteem and Self Efficacy

Self Esteem Self Help Home Page

Self Esteem and Shyness

Relaxation Techniques

Generic Relaxation Articles

Deep Relaxation

Pages dedicated to specific relaxation techniques

Biofeedback

Biofeedback Applications

Biofeedback Articles Bibliography

Biofeedback Society of Wisconsin
 

Biofeedback Webzine

Clinical Psychophysiology

Description of Biofeedback

MIND GEAR

Neurofeedback

Neurofeedback Archives

Ultramind International

Breathing

Abdominal Breathing

Alternative Breathing

Breathing Methods

Carl Stough Institute of Breathing Coordination, Inc.

Diaphragmatic Breathing

Hypnosis

Hypnosis.Com

Hypnotherapy - is it for me?

Hypnoweb

National Guild of Hypnotist

Neuro Linguistic Programming

Using Self-Hypnosis to Overcome Fear

Light Sound Machines

Light Sound Technology

Links on research

Massage

Articles about Massage and Bodywork

Therapeutic Massage for Health and Fitness

What is Massage

What to Expect

Meditation Resources

Blue Mountain Center Meditation Instruction

Desktop Meditation
 

Learning Meditation

Mantra Meditation

Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness Meditation by Kabat-Zinn

Kundalini Meditation

The Relaxation Response - Canadian Mental Health Association

The Relaxation Response - The Mining Co.

The Relaxation Response - Herbert Benson Video

Transcendental Meditation

Transcendental Meditation Dissent and Source for TM Mantras

Trancent.org (anti cult, TM, Choprak & Others)

Progressive Neuromuscular Relaxation

Progressive Relaxation

Progressive Relaxation and Smooth Muscle Relaxation

Qigong

Introduction to Qigong

Quieting Response

Stroebel's Quieting Response

REST Flotation

Floating Information

Float Tank Association (UK)

H & H Flotation Spa

Photo Images of Open Room Flotation REST System

Relaxation Springs Spa

REST Conference

Samadhi Tank Co.

Tank Alternatives Inc.

Tai Chi

Tai Chi Page

Tai Chi Chuan

Visualization and Imagery

The Guided Imagery Resource Center

Visualization for Relaxation

Writing Therapy

Free Writing

Yoga

Kundalini Resources

YogaCentral

Yoga Group for HIV/AIDS

Yoga Links

American Yoga Association

Situational Approaches to Stress Management

Pages offering help with changing environmental influences of emotions

Time Management Strategies

Confronting Procrastination

Covey's First Things First

The Science of Time Management

Time Management

Time Management Plan

For College Students

Having Fun

The Lost Art of Having Fun

Increasing One's Social Support Network

Social Support and Loneliness Home Page

Individual and Group Consulting Services for Victims of Abuse

Opening Up to Others

For Families & Parents

National Fatherhood Initiative

National Parent Information Network

The Parents Place

Parent Soup

ParenthoodWeb

Relaxation for Childbirth

Single Rose (for single moms)

Stress Management for Families

Relationships - Divorce

The Couples Place

Dealing with Stress in Divorce

Divorce Stinks

Divorce Support Page

Massage for Divorce

Stress & Relationships

For and About Kids

Advice from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiarty

Children & Divorce

Children and Stress

Kids and Sports

Mental Health Risk Factors for Adolescents

Kids with Special Needs

Center for Gifted Education

Special Needs Education Network

TAG Resources Home Page
 

For Death, Loss and Bereavement

Emotional Support Guide

GriefNet

Other Forms of Situational Approaches to Stress Management

Power Therapies for Trauma Therapy

EMDR

Emotional Freedom Techniques

Tapas Acupressure Technique

Thought Field Therapy

Financial Wellness

Center for Financial Wellbeing

Spiritual Health Awareness

SpiritWeb: Spiritual Consciousness on the Web

Spirit WWW

Spirituality and Health

Spirituality & Health

Spiritual Health

Chronic Physiological Arousal Interventions

How to make your body stronger to withstand emotional distress

Nutritional Approaches to Stress Management

Exercise and Stress Management

Building the Mind's Muscle

Exercise and Psychotherapy

Exercise as a Stress Buffer

Exercise Intensity and Emotional Health

Explanation of Exercise as a Stress Management Modality

Fitness by Mark C. Anderson from Self-Help Psychology

Stress and Horse Riding

Tai Chi

Tai Chi Page

Yoga

Kundalini Resources

YogaCentral

Yoga Group for HIV/AIDS

Yoga Links

American Yoga Association

Crisis Intervention

Managing Anxiety in Times of Crisis