Title:
Mind-body philosophy.
ISBN:
9781629973623
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
General Note:
Title from container.
Course No. 4932.
24 lectures (30 min. each).
Contents:
Mind, body, and questions of consciousness -- Mind and body in Greek philosophy -- Eastern perspectives on mind and body -- Using the body to shape the mind -- History of the soul -- How Descartes divided mental from physical.
Mistakes about our own consciousness -- Strange cases of consciousness -- Altered states of consciousness -- Memory, mind, and brain -- Self-consciousness and the self -- Rival psychologies of the mind.
The Enigma of free will -- Emotions : where mind and body meet -- Could a machine be conscious ? -- Computational approaches to the mind -- A guided tour of the brain -- Thinking body and extended mind.
Francis Crick and binding in the brain -- Clues on consciousness from Anesthesiology -- Of mind, materialism, and zombies -- Thought experiments against materialism -- Consciousness and the explanatory gap -- A philosophical science of consciousness.
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Summary:
Explore how the brain creates your experience of reality with an award-winning professor of philosophy.
System Details:
DVD.
Language Note:
IN ENGLISH; CLOSED-CAPTIONED.
