Stevan Harnad

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Professor Stevan Harnad
Professor Stevan Harnad

Professor Stevan Harnad (Hernád István, Hesslein István) is a cognitive scientist who was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University. He is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Southampton. He is also an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research is on categorisation[1], communication[2], cognition[3] and consciousness[4].

Harnad was the founder and editor (1978-2003) of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a journal published by Cambridge University Press, Psycoloquy, an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association, and CogPrints, an electronic preprint archive in the cognitive sciences hosted by University of Southampton. He was also the founder and moderator of the American Scientist Open Access Forum[5] (since 1998).

[edit] Diet

Vegetarianism and the Turing Test[6]: Harnad will not eat anything[7] that has, or has ever had, a mental state.[8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Harnad, S. (2005). To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization.
  2. ^ Cangelosi, Angelo and Harnad, Stevan (2001). The adaptive advantage of symbolic theft over sensorimotor toil: Grounding language in perceptual categories.
  3. ^ Harnad, S. (2006). The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence.
  4. ^ Harnad, S. and Scherzer, P. (2007). First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling. In: Proceedings of AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium on AI and Consciousness, November 8–11, 2007, Washington DC.
  5. ^ Archive of American Scientist Open Access Forum
  6. ^ Stevan Harnad. Spielberg's AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer
  7. ^ Stevan Harnad. Can a machine be conscious? How?
  8. ^ Stephen Strauss. Is it an ant? A cockroach? Or Simply a Squiggle? In: The Toronto Globe and Mail (c. 1990).

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