Essay 2.
Q500, Introduction to Cognitive Science
September 16, 1999

I'm making some changes in the form of the writing assignments, so please read carefully.

1. You pick the topic.

2. One draft only - no rewrites.

3. Still comment on the next 5 (at least) essays on the list of students (assuming that A follows Z in a circular alphabet).

Please post it by midnight on Friday, Sept 24. You will then need to read and comment on others' essays by Wednesday midnight, Sept 29.

Essay 2. Pick some issue raised in one of the papers for this week (Turing and Searle) that caught your interest and made you think. Write a short essay (a couple paragraphs or whatever you need, but keep it short) expressing what was interesting or striking about the issue.

(For example, if *I* were doing one, I would probably do it on `residual dualism' and how this dualism is not about substance and how it is masked by antidualist rhetoric and hocus-pocus about abstract rules.)

My plan is to follow a similar procedure in the future: an essay in response to readings from the previous week.

R. Port, Indiana University