Links
- Alva Noë: "Why Is Consciousness So Baffling?"
- Antonio Damasio: "The Quest to Understand Consciousness"
- Big Think: "Antonio Damasio & Siri Hustvedt"
- Big Think: "Daniel Dennett"
- californica: portrait of the artist as an organism (Jason Tougaw's blog)
- Daniel Dennett: "Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny"
- Emily Singer: "The Measured Life"
- Extraordinary People: The Boy Who Could See Without Eyes
- Gail Hornstein's Bibliography of "First Person Narratives of Madness in English"
- Gail Horstein, "The Hearing Voices Network"
- Gary Wolf on "The Quantified Self"
- Hearing the Voice Project
- Interview with Alva Noë (Salon)
- Jesse Prinz: "Waiting for the Self"
- Jill Bolte Taylor: "My Stroke of Insight"
- Koestenbaum on Viegener
- Maud Casey
- Rufus May: "Living Mindfully with Voices"
- Siri Hustvedt
- Tarnation Trailer
- The Quantified Self
- V.S. Ramachandran: "3 Clues to Understanding Your Brain"
- We Live in Public Trailer
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Author Archives: Jason Tougaw
Dolphin Bioacoustics
In class on Tuesday, we talked a little about species-specific perception and consciousness. Heather Spence, a Ph.D. student in Psychology at the GC, has done some interesting research on “dolphin bioacoustics.” She’s working with the New Media Lab to create and … Continue reading
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Michael Gazzaniga on the Radio
Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga was on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer show today. He called “the explanatory gap”–between neural physiology and subjective experience–“the scientific question of our time.” The show just finished, but it should go online here shortly. Gazzaniga is well … Continue reading
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Damasio’s Terms
Antonio Damasio’s theories of consciousness and the self are complicated and can get bewildering on a first reading. This is partly because he builds the theory through the explanation of relationships among a pretty large number of parts. The good … Continue reading
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Harvey’s Elements for Week 2
Thesis: David, Berni Motive: Venita, Cheryl Evidence: Justin Analysis: Liz Keyterms: Jeff Structure: Jen Stitching: Dag Sources: Julia Reflecting: Amber Orienting: Yael Stance: Andrew Style: Mari
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Library Workshops
Hi everybody. The library at the GC is offering some great workshops in February. Introduction to Library Resources (2/3 @ 1-2pm and 2/11 @ 4:15-5:15pm) Introduction to Grants Resources and Grant Writing (2/11 @ 3-5pm) Introduction to Zotero for Citation … Continue reading
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Welcome
This site will be the online home for our course. You will find our course readings, calendar, and requirements here. Each week, half the students in the course will post discussion questions about assigned readings to our course blog; the other … Continue reading
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