This is
subject to change, with changes announced in class and/or by email.
Assigned readings/listenings should be
read/listened to prior
to the indicated classes.
| Monday
10:30-11:50 AM |
Monday 7:00-9:00 PM | Wednesday
10:30-11:50 AM |
|---|---|---|
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September
7 [actually Tuesday, 9-10AM!]
First classSyllabus |
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September
8
Read: "Beyond lies
the wub" |
|
September
13
Read: "Animal
Consciousness: What Matters and Why" |
September
13
TV: Outer Limits: The Human Factor
TV: Star Trek: Spock's Brain |
September
15
Listen: Radiolab: Who Am I?
|
|
September
20
Read: "First Person
Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality" |
September
20
Film: Being John Malkovich |
September
22
Paper discussion
|
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September
27
Listen: Radiolab: Memory and ForgettingDue: Paper #1 (5-8 pages on a topic discussed in class) |
September
27
Film: Memento |
September
29
Read: "Islands of
memory:
Autobiographical remembering in amnestics" |
|
October
4
Listen: Radiolab: DeceptionListen: IT Conversations: Dan Simons - The Invisible Gorilla |
October
4
Film: The Manchurian Candidate
(1962) |
October
6
Read: "The
persistence of false beliefs" |
|
October
11
OCTOBER BREAK
(no class) |
October
11
OCTOBER BREAK
(no class) |
October
13
Read: The Futurological Congress
Listen: All in the Mind: Brave New Mind: Smart drugs and the ethics of neuro-enhancement |
|
October 18
Paper discussion |
October 18
Film:
A Scanner Darkly
|
October 20
Div I, II, III, IV
Due: Paper #2 (5-8 pages on a topic discussed in class) |
|
October 25
Read: "Computing Machinery and
Intelligence" |
October 25
TV: Star Trek the Next Generation:
The Measure
of a ManTV: The Twilight Zone: The Lonely |
October 27
Read: "Evolution of
Artificial Intelligence" |
|
November
1
Read: "Minds, Brains,
and Programs" |
November
1
Film: Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
|
November 3
ADVISING DAY
(no class) |
|
November
8
Listen: Radiolab: Emergence |
November
8
TV: Star Trek the Next Generation:
Emergence |
November
10
Paper discussion |
|
November 15
Listen: All in the Mind: Michael
Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady talesListen: All in the Mind: The Master & his Emissary - the divided brain and the reshaping of Western civilisation. Due: Paper #3 (5-8 pages on a topic discussed in class) |
November 15
TV: The Prisoner: A, B and C |
November 17
Read: "The Role of
Sleep in Memory Consolidation and Brain Plasticity:
Dream or Reality?"Read: "Sleep and Dream Patterns of Political Liberals and Conservatives" Optional: Listen: All in the Mind: Dreams: the stuff memories are made of? (Part 2 of 2) |
|
November 22
Listen: Philosophy Bites: David Chalmers on the
SingularityListen: IT Conversations: Ray Kurzweil - The Future is Near |
November 22
Film: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes |
November 24
THANKSGIVING
(no class) |
|
November 29
Read: "Blindsight
depends on the lateral geniculate nucleus"Read: Blindsight |
November 29
Film: Moon
|
December 1
Paper
discussion
|
|
December
6
Read: "Talk of genetics and vice
versa" Read: "From Squeak
to Syntax: Language's Incremental Evolution"Listen: Radiolab: Musical Language |
December
6
Film: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes |
December
8
DiscussionDue: Final Paper (10-12 pages, may be a revision/expansion of an earlier paper) and Portfolio |