Philosophy 350 - Topic: Conciousness

'David Chalmers has dubbed the problem of consciousness 'The Hard Problem.' How can a lump of physical matter (for example, your brain) have an experience? How can it be like something, feel like something, to be in one physical state rather than another? There has been a tremendous surge of divergent thinking on these questions in the intersections between neuroscience and philosophy--stories about how matter can be conscious, and stories of why our minds are too limited ever to answer such questions. Discussion of readings from Dennett, Churchland, Chalmers, Crick, Gazzaniga, Lloyd, and others.'

Prereq: 8 credits from the Philosophy department