Consciousness, Virtual Reality, and Cyberspace in Education
September 3, 2003
Professor G. Cartwright
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| 1. September 3 | Introduction to the Course
The Nature of Consciousness: Overview. What is consciousness? Why Virtual Reality and Cyberspace will force the reexamination of consciousness. |
The role of the computer in the study of consciousness: 1) as a resource
(Internet and World Wide Web), 2) as a new and altered level of human consciousness
through computer communication and conferencing, and 3) as the host for
the development of machine consciousness.
Video: TV Newsclip: From missile makers to videogames |
| 2. September 10 | Theories of Consciousness (classical and modern)
Classical Theorists: Freud's Psychoanalytical theory of the unconscious & Jung's collective unconscious |
Video: The Brain Series: Part 1 The Enlightened Machine
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| 3. September 17 | Cosmic Consciousness: Richard Maurice Bucke;
Stanley Dean (ultraconsciousness) Julian Jaynes, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind |
Video: Split Brain
Video: The Brain Series: Part 6 The Two Brains
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| 4. September 24 | States of Consciousness (Charles Tart, etc. Normal, altered,
higher, and drug-induced states of consciousness, dreaming, directed dreaming,
research findings) |
Presentation: States of Consciousness - TBA
Video: The Brain Series: Part 8 States of Mind
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| 5. October 1 | Consciousness and Learning: Does one have to be conscious to
learn?
The Hypothesis of Formative Causation: Rupert Sheldrake.
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Presentation: Dreaming, lucid dreamind and directed dreaming
- Sandrine Ceurstemont
Video: A Glorius Accident |
| 6. October 8 | Suggestology (Lozanov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria) | Presentation: TBA
Video: The Brain Series: Part 7 Madness (Schizophrenia). |
| 7. October 15 | Giftedness & Consciousness (with particular reference to
Einstein and Ramanujan as case studies)
Philosophical aspects of consciousness. Teillard de Chardin. Frank Tipler. |
Presentation: TBA
Video: NOVA: Einstein Video: The Man Who Loved Numbers: the case of Ramanujan (if we can get it!) or Video: James Burke: The Day the Universe Changed (part 10) Video: The God Module |
| 8. October 22 | Hypnosis. Class demonstration of group hypnosis. (Nothing to
be worried about!)
Imagery and Transformational Fantasy (Shaffer) |
Film: Captive Minds Hypnosis and Beyond
Presentation: Imagery and Transformational Fantasy - TBA |
| 9. October 29 | Physiological Correlates of consciousness. EEG and quantified
signal imaging. Telepathy (Targ & Putoff).
Quantum Consciousness (Fred Wolfe) Modeling Consciousness (including Cybernetics) & Research Models, collective consciousness, global consciousness |
Presentation: Physiological Correlates of Conscioiusness -
TBA
Video: Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth. Part 6 Masks of Eternity Video: Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth Part 4 Sacrifice
and Bliss
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| 10. November 5 | Presence. Guest lecturer: Mr. Adam Finkelstein | DVD: The Illusion of Being |
| 11. November 12 | Virtual Reality, sensory technology, current research | Video: Being there, here.
TV Newsclip: Virtual Reality Video: Balloonacy (Myron Krueger) |
| 12. November 19 | Cyberspace and the future | Video clip: Back to the Future Ttechnical Engineering |
| 13. November 26 | . | . |
| 14. December 3 | . | . |