Study of Consciousness

CS691C: Study of Consciousness

Hava Siegelmann
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This is a new research course of 3 credits, which will focus on studying the different elements necessary to produce consciousness in animals and machines. We will learn both the classical and very recent research in Consciousness, and prepare the students to do research in this field. The course should be accredited in both computer science and the nsb program.

The class meets at 3:24PM in CS150 every Tuesday. The class will not last past 6:00, but total length depends on material to be discussed. The table below shows the presenter and related papers for each week, with the next class highlighted for easy lookup.

A good source for information is: http://consc.net/online.htm

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Class Date	Details	Discussion Leader
09/13/05	None	Hava Siegelmann
09/20/05	Noë, Alva. "Experience of the world in time". Analysis. January 2006 Noë, A. and Thompson, E. "Are there Neural Correlates of Consciousness". Journal of Conciousness Studies, vol 11, no 1. 2004 Dennett, Daniel. "Quining Qualia". http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/quinqual.htm Koch, Christof. "Quest for Consciousness". Chapters 5,6, 18	Lars Holzman
09/27/05	John Searle, Minds, brains, and programs http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/MindsBrainsPrograms.html V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein, Three Laws of Qualia http://www.imprint.co.uk/rama/qualia.pdf	Will Bush
10/04/05	CLASS CANCELLED	NONE
10/11/05	Talk by Noam Chomsky @3:30PM, Student Union Ballroom	N/A
10/12/05	PLEASE CONSIDER ATTENDING: Michael A. Arbib presents "Embodying Neurolinguistics" CS Bldg, Rooms 150/151, 4:00PM	N/A
10/18/05	CLASS WILL BE IN THE COMMON ROOM UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE HERE ON TUESDAY John McCarthy, Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States Daniel Dennet, "The Practical Requirements for Maknig a Conscious Robot," Ch.9 of his book Brainchildren, Essays on Designing Minds - online version available through library High-Level Perception, Representation, and Analogy: a Critique of Artificial Intelligence Methodology	Megan Olsen
10/18/05	CLASS WILL BE IN THE COMMON ROOM UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE HERE ON TUESDAY T.S. Lee and D. Mumford, Hierarchical Bayesian Inference in the Visual Cortex. J.Opt.Soc.Am.A/Vol.20, July 2003 Hinton, Dayan, Frey, and Neal. The wake-up algorithm for unsupervised neural networks	Kim Ferguson
10/25/05	Brief Particle Filtering Overview	Kim Ferguson
10/25/05	Special Guest - Consciousness, and the Immune System as it relates to the Brain	Uziel Awret
10/31/05	4:00PM, CS150 - SPECIAL MONDAY CLASS!! Some Necessary Conditions for the Emergence of Conscious Visual Experience	Daniel A. Pollen, M.D.
11/01/05	Tononi, G. "Regional Sleep Regulation" Tononi, G. "Consciousness, Information Integration and the Brain" Massimini M., Ferrarelli F., Huber R., Esser SK., Singh H., Tononi G. "Breakdown of cortical effective connectivity during sleep" Tononi G., "An Information Integration Theory of Consciousness" Edelman, Tononi. Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination	Bobby Rohrkemper, Yariv Levy
11/08/05	Special Guest - I thought I saw it Move: Illusions of motion perception	Stuart Anstis
11/08/05	Celebrity Neurons	Neuroscience People
11/16/05	Please note this is a WEDNESDAY. Class will be at 3:31, room 251.	Jeb
11/22/05	Penrose	Neil
11/22/05	In the Theater of Consciousness	Gretchen
11/22/05	TBD	Kyle
11/29/05	Wake Sleep Algorithm	Mark
11/29/05	TBD	Nate
12/06/05	Special Guest - Bistable Neural Oscillators: A Tale of Two States	David Paydarfar, M.D.
12/13/05	Room 243 Intuitive Perceptions of Consciousness	Victor
12/13/05	TBD	Sophie