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Schedule
Week
1
Introduction
Descartes and Cartesian dualism
Week
2
Alternatives to Cartesian dualism
Property dualism, panpsychism, solipsism
Week
3
Neurons and vision
How is it that we see?
Week
4
Functionalism, Computers, and AI
Charles Babbage and Deep Blue
The von Neumann computer
Alan Turing, the Turing machine, and the Turing test
Week
5
Functionalism, Computers, and AI
More on Ai
Week
6
Kinds of consciousness
Qualia: Mary
The hard problem, the explanatory gap
Taking consciousness seriously
Week
7
Physicalism
Objections: Zombies
The inverted spectrum argument
Bats and octopuses
Week
8
Theories of Consciousness
Crick, Penrose, HOT theories, Chalmers
Week
9
Free Will
Block time, operational definitions
Determinism, chaos, and quantum mechanics
Three definitions of free will, compatibilism, and incompatibilism
Week
10
More on free will
Recapitulation
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