Here are some external links related to some of the topics covered in the lectures.
Podcast: John Searle talking about consciousness and dualism.
Here's an interesting concept in robotic toys – robots with kinetic memory – relevant to the discussions in lecture 7.
Check out this article from the Age in relation to your answer to question 1 of exercise 1. Make sure you read all the article.
Read the latest on Evolutionary Computing in the ACM SIGEVOlution newsletter.
Homework for last week: download and listen to the ABC Radio National Science Show podcast on the 30th anniversary of "The Selfish Gene". (see also: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/selfish06/selfish06_index.html)
Link to the Richard Dawkins website.
Putting MathML on html pages. Also, if you are a Mac user try Latex Equation Editor.