Philosophy

The Consciousness Lectures

5 nightsIntermediate40 hours total

From Descartes to Dennett, Chalmers to Tononi. Five nights exploring the hard problem of consciousness, qualia, and the nature of subjective experience.

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Curriculum

  1. 1Night 1: What Is Awareness?
  2. 2Night 2: The Theater of the Mind
  3. 3Night 3: The Self Illusion
  4. 4Night 4: Free Will and Determinism
  5. 5Night 5: The Future of Consciousness

What You'll Explore

  • Why awareness is the one thing you cannot doubt, yet the hardest thing to explain
  • How your brain constructs an inner theater of experience that feels seamless but is full of gaps
  • The neuroscience and philosophy revealing that the 'self' may be the brain's most elaborate fiction
  • Whether your choices are truly yours, or determined by causes stretching back to the Big Bang
  • Where consciousness research is heading, from integrated information theory to artificial minds

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