Consciousness Course
Dive into timeless and current discussions on consciousness and the mind, spanning Nagel, Chalmers, neuroscience, and AI implications. Tailored for humanities experts, this course equips you with practical methods to dissect thought experiments, evaluate theories, and link abstract philosophy to empirical evidence from brain science and cognition research.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This course provides a straightforward, hands-on guide to the mind-body problem, drawing from key works by Nagel, Chalmers, and Jackson, up to modern ideas like Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace Theory. You'll evaluate physicalist, dualist, and illusionist perspectives, hone skills in creating and critiquing thought experiments, and bridge philosophical debates with actual neuroscience and cognitive studies.
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Develop skills
- Confidently dissect classic and modern theories of consciousness.
- Rapidly apply thought experiments and modal logic to challenge mind-body claims.
- Evaluate neuroscience data against identity theory and functionalist ideas.
- Create basic experiments to test core philosophical ideas on consciousness.
- Articulate comparisons of physicalism, dualism, and panpsychism in precise writing.
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