The Quest for Consciousness

Schedule:

January 06: What needs to be explained about consciousness?

Introduction to the study of consciousness (Koch Ch1) - Other ideas about consciousness - Basic notions of Neuroscience - Basic measurements in Neuroscience - Neurons, the atoms of perception (Koch Ch2)

See also http://questforconsciousness.com/

January 13: A framwork for the scientific study of consciousness

An article by Crick and Kock in Nature Neuroscience - Comments by John Searle

January 20: Causality and the road ahead

Lesions and consciousness -Electrical stimulation of the brain - Speculations about the future

January 27: Experimental approaches [This lecture will be given by Dr. Leila Reddy]

Bistable percepts - Binocular rivalry

 

 

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