kudaa.blogg.se - The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto

Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steve Johnson.Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark.Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence by Rolf Pfeifer.Superintelligence: Paths, Danger, Strategies by Nick Bostrom.From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniell C.

The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto and Natsuki Lee.Moral Machines by Wendell Wallach and Collin Allen.This Is Your Brain on Music by Daniel J.Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer.The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms by Margaret Boden.The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl.

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins.

Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett.

"How We Learn" by Stanislas Dehaene, 2021.

"The Stories of Ibis" by Hiroshi Yamamoto, 2010.

"How Emotions Are Made" by Lisa Feldman Barret, 2017.

" A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, 2021.

We will read the following books during the winter term 2022/2023: The books are supposed to be jargon-free, interesting or even popular books on the topic, which are mostly with only very limited amount of mathematical notation. It is the goal of this course to read and digest information, to stimulate new thoughts as well as to improve the spoken and written communication skills.

Review of the submitted essays is done in a peer-review style, i.e., students are reviewing. Besides this oral processing participants are also asked to put down their thinking in writing, i.e., in the form of short essays on what has been said in the book and what it means to the individual. To this end we use various forms of group discussion (speed-dating, fishbowl, world cafe, debate, etc.). Every week the group meets and discusses the main points of the current book. The participants read a book on the subject of "Brain, Mind & Cognition". The seminar is structured like a reading circle. The course attempts to motivate the participants to actively think about the topic "Brain, Mind & Cognition" stimulated by reading and discussing books on this topic.