Jaron Lanier dismisses the prospect of human-like AI. This could be interesting if he did not do it on faulty technical premises and ridiculous cultural arguments; Lanier is intellectually fraudulent.

How can the physical universe give rise to a mind? I suggest to replace this confusing question by another one: what kind of information processing system is the mind, and how is the mind computed? As we will see, even our ideas of the physical universe turn out to be computational. Let us explore some fascinating scenery of the philosophy underlying Artificial Intelligence.

How can there be meaning without intersubjective reference?

True Computation is only possible in a silicon substrate.

If you should happen to be interested in how to turn an abstracted version of basic electronic circuitry into a puzzle game, read on.

Exploring consciousness through anti-representationalism.