Cognitive Psychology - Audio
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The consciousness of the human mind has long been a topic of fascination and curiosity amongst writers, artists and psychologists, from Carl Jung and Salvador Dali to Virginia Wolfe and Gertrude Stein. This album explores our understanding of consciousness, and features a discussion on some of psychology's most complex questions: what does it mean to be a conscious human, and what purposes our consciousness serves. This material forms part of The Open University course DD303 Cognitive psychology.
Location:
United States
Description:
The consciousness of the human mind has long been a topic of fascination and curiosity amongst writers, artists and psychologists, from Carl Jung and Salvador Dali to Virginia Wolfe and Gertrude Stein. This album explores our understanding of consciousness, and features a discussion on some of psychology's most complex questions: what does it mean to be a conscious human, and what purposes our consciousness serves. This material forms part of The Open University course DD303 Cognitive psychology.
Language:
English
Episodes
Cognitive Psychology
4/12/2010
A short introduction to this album.
Duration:00:00:47
What is consciousness?
9/3/2008
What does consciousness mean? How artists, writers and scientists understood consciousness in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Duration:00:06:44
Consciousness: the central psychological question
9/3/2008
The difficulties of explaining consciousness scientifically.
Duration:00:02:07
The evolution of consciousness
9/3/2008
Are animals conscious? Can we produce conscious machines?
Duration:00:03:36
Consciousness: a first person experience
9/3/2008
Could we programme consciousness into a computer? Are there varying degrees of consciousness?
Duration:00:03:34
Consciousness and experience
9/3/2008
The link between experience, consciousness and language and how it gives us an evolutionary advantage.
Duration:00:04:23
What is consciousness for?
9/3/2008
The purpose of consciousness, and how it governs the imaginative use of our sensory apparatus.
Duration:00:05:00