Slides

for the UC berkeley class "Thinking about Thought"

Theories of Brain, Mind and Consciousness

When i am not teaching this class, the links are dead and you can just view the lightweight "What is the Dao of an Ant" presentation.

Click on the title of the chapter to view the slide presentation. Click on "free download" to download it.

Ten-evening version
  1. Introduction to Mind (free download)
  2. Philosophy of Mind (free download)
  3. Cognitive Models (free download)
  4. Machine Intelligence (free download)
  5. Life and Organization (free download)
  6. Ecology (free download)
  7. The Brain (free download)
  8. Dreams and Emotions (free download)
  9. Language (free download)
  10. The new Physics (free download)
  11. Consciousness (free download)
Six-evening version
  1. Philosophy and Cognitive Psycholody (free download) [Summary of the evening - video]
  2. Neurophysiology (free download) [Summary of the evening - video]
  3. Linguistics (free download) [Summary of the evening - video]
  4. Biology (free download) [Summary of the evening - video]
  5. Mathematics and Physics (free download) [Summary of the evening - video]
  6. Consciousness (free download) [Summary of the evening - video]
The reader for this class: "Nature of Mind"

or the new edition, "Thinking about Thought"

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