Professor John McCarthy
Father of AI

Essays

What does it mean to be rational?

American History for Valley Girls

The Chief Seattle Theme Park

A Manifesto of the Newtonian Brotherhood of Truly Christian Scientists. I regret to say that it has turned out to be necessary to explicitly characterize it as humor. I didn't mind that some careless readers accused me of being a bigot, but I had to put in a disclaimer when some readers emailed me with their support for the ideas.

Scientific Forms of the Religious Hypothesis explores the possibility that our world is a computer program written by some god or other artificial creation (November 24, 2001).

Some sayings, which may appeal to some.