Scientific Approaches to Consciousness (WMA)

Scientific Approaches to Consciousness (WMA)
This course will examine the nature of human consciousness from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. It will cover topics from the philosophy of mind, cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computational models.

Lesson content


Lec 1 Cognition in personal & Social Context

Lec 2 Introspection: Analysis of Consciousness

Lec 3 Defining the Sensory Modalities

Lec 4 Mind & Body

Lec 6 Hard Problem of Consciousness

Lec 7 Three kinds of Psychosomatic Effects

Lec 8 Attention & Automaticity

Lec 9 Extent of Preattentive Processing

Lec 11 Dual-Process Theories in Psychology

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Lec 13 Terminological Confusion

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Lec 17 Anesthesia & Coma

Lec 18 Anesthetic Effects on Memory

Lec 19 Sleep & Dreams

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Lec 21 Hysteria & Hypnosis

Lec 22 Unified View of Dissociative Disorders

Lec 23 Absorption, Daydreaming & Meditation

Lec 24 Eastern Meditative Traditions

Lec 25 The Origins of Consciousness

Lec 26