Consciousness and the Brain: We will start by looking at what it is to be conscious, and at some philosophical theories of what our consciousness is. Then we will look at how our brains work. From there, we will move on to see how brain science can be applied to various aspects of our lives: memory, perception, emotions, pleasure, sleep, trauma, and human development. Finally we will return from application to theory and look at how we develop our sense of self.
11 January 2022
Simon Lewis, "Don't Take Consciousness for Granted."
18 January 2022
David Chalmers, "How Do You Explain Consciousness?" 2014
25 January 2022
Anil Seth, "Your Brain Hallucinates Your Consciousness." 2017
1 February 2022
Dan Dennett, "The Illusion of Consciousness." 2003
8 February 2022
John Searle, "Our Shared Condition - Consciousness," 2013
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_searle_our_shared_condition_consciousness
15 February 2022
Daniel Wolpert, "The Real Reason for Brains." 2011
22 February 2022
Sandrine Thuret, "You Can Grow New Brain Cells." 2015
1 March 2022
Michael Merzenich, "Growing Evidence of Brain Plasticity." 2004
8 March 2022
Nancy Kanwisher, "A Neural Portrait of the Human Mind." 2014
https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_kanwisher_a_neural_portrait_of_the_human_mind
15 March 2022
Neil Burgess, "How Your Brain Tells You Where You are." 2011
22 March 2022
Lisa Genova, "How Your Memory Works and Why Forgetting is Totally OK." 2021
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_genova_how_your_memory_works_and_why_forgetting_is_totally_ok
29 March 2022
Pawan Sinha, "How Brains Learn to See." 2009
5 April 2022
Lisa Mosconi, How Menopause Affects the Brain." 2019
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_mosconi_how_menopause_affects_the_brain
12 April 2022
Lisa Feldman Barrett, "Why You Aren't at the Mercy of Your Emotions - Your Brain Creates Them." 2017
19 April 2022
Paul Bloom, "The Origins of Pleasure." 2011
26 April 2022
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, "The Mysterious Workings of the Adolescent Brain." 2012
3 May 2022
Matt Walker, "Sleep is Your Superpower." 2019
https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_walker_sleep_is_your_superpower
10 May 2022
Nadine Burke Harris, "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime." 2014
17 May 2022
Antonio Damasio, "The Quest to Understand Consciousness." 2011
24 May 2022
Anil Seth, "How Your Brain Invents Your Self." 2021
https://www.ted.com/talks/anil_seth_how_your_brain_invents_your_self
31 May 2022
Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight."
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_my_stroke_of_insight?language=zh