? Consider your field of study or career interest. Find current articles/information related to Computers/Networks/Technology/Software. For example: New software, new hardware devices, new network devices, new wireless tools or any new use of technology – RFID, Wireless, Nanotechnology, or laser devices which you read about in your textbook. If your major is undecided consider research on Smart homes, smart cars, or anything to do with improving our national electrical grid.

? You will include a bibliography with links to the articles with your paper and in text citations for information you use from the articles. Be sure your citations include the names and dates of the journal for each article or website. You can use WORD References/citations and bibliography to add your citations and bibliography to your paper.
o You must have at least one article which fully describes or explains the technology and one or two more to use to show how the technology is used.

o at least two paragraphs explaining how the technology works
o and two paragraphs describing how you see this impacting society/business/individuals in your field .

? Create a PowerPoint slide show to cover the highlights of your project.

Topic #1: Minds & Machines

Alan Turing’s seminal paper “Computing Machinery & Intelligence” laid the foundation for the modern theory of computation and the Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). In it he proposes to replace questions like:

(M) Are minds machines?

with questions such as:

(M*) Is it possible to map every cognitive state, function, or ability onto a similar machine state?

where the concept of “machine” is the mathematically well-defined concept of a URM or finite state machine. That is:

(M**) Given a cognitive state P’, is there a program P that models P’?

This, Turing thinks, allows us to gain traction on (M) above and, ultimately, answer in the affirmative. In this paper, you are to critically assess and evaluate the arguments for or against CTM.

In the course of so doing, you must！！！！！

(1) State and explain the main theses behind CTM;

(2) provide one example of a machine (via a program for a URM);

(3) discuss and explain CTM in light of the argument from consciousness;

(4) discuss and explain CTM in light of the mathematical objection;

(5) State and explain at least one rejoinder to objections (3) or (4).

The overarching goal of this essay is to take a position (is CTM true or is it false) and then show, as clearly as possible, why your position is the correct position.