Epstein Secrets

Allan Combs, who got me thinking about consciousness in various different ways, at a very early point in my career. I’m very pleased to still count Allan as a friend and sometime collaborator! Fred Abraham as well, for introducing me to the intersection of chaos theory and cognition, with a wonderful

ha Bach, Institute of Cogni- tive Science, University of Osnabruck, Germany; Robert Coop, University of Tennessee; Rod Furlan, Singularity Institute; Matthias Scheutz, Indiana University; J. Storrs Hall, Foresight Institute; Alexei Samsonovich, George Mason University; Matt Schlesinger, Southern Illinois University

nd Atoms. He is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

are with us natural conscious agents our vulnerability or our mortality. I once posed a challenge to students in a seminar at Tufts I co-taught with Matthias Scheutz on artificial agents and autonomy: Give me the specs for a robot that could sign a binding contract with you—not as a surrogate for some human owner

nd Atoms. He is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

are with us natural conscious agents our vulnerability or our mortality. I once posed a challenge to students in a seminar at Tufts I co-taught with Matthias Scheutz on artificial agents and autonomy: Give me the specs for a robot that could sign a binding contract with you—not as a surrogate for some human owner