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"Do Androids Dream? M.I.T. Is Working on It"

A conversation with Anne Foerst originally appearing in The New York Times (November 7, 2000).

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Features links to research papers and projects dedicated to discovering how the mind works, as well as images and video of Cog and Kismet.

The Passionate Mind: Emotion, Cognition, and the Construction of Self

A symposium held in October 2003 at the University of Utah exploring the connection of between the mind and how it works in conjunction with the body, the emotions, and the world around it.

"Stories We Tell: Where Robotics and Theology Meet"

First of two video webcasts, presented as part of the God and Robots lecture series that was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Science and Religion and Columbia University, in which Anne Foerst examines questions about embodiment, social interaction, culture, and a new understanding of ritual.

"Are Our Bodies Our Selves?: Insights from Robotics"

Second of two video webcasts, presented as part of the God and Robots lecture series that was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Science and Religion and Columbia University, in which Anne Foerst puts forth that the physical body and social interactions play the most important role in intelligence.

"Humans and Their Machines"

An April 2002 National Public Radio's Science Friday radio show in which host Ira Flatow discusses the relationship between humans and machines, and what it means to be human, with Rodney Brooks, Anne Foerst, and Richard Powers.

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    Carl Feit

    Feit is an immunologist at Yeshiva University in Manhattan and a scholar of the Talmud.

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    Anne Foerst

    Foerst is a computer scientist and former theological advisor in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.

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    Lindon Eaves

    Eaves is an Anglican priest and geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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