Lent term (2011) lectures and tutorials are listed below, (underlined titles link to online lecture notes). All lectures to be held on Thursdays [2pm-6pm]. All meetings to be held in room 2, 29 St. James, New Cross, (unless otherwise stated).

For directions to Goldsmiths College see: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

On consciousness and computations

• 0. Lent term assessments

• 1. John Searle on 'The mystery of consciousness'

• 1. Finite State Automata and Turing Machines

• 2. Francis Crick's Astonishing Hypothesis

• 2. On the nCoding of NORMA flowchart programs

• 3. Gerry Edelman's Neural Darwinism and re-entrant maps

• 3. On the NORMA emulation of 'high level' software functions [part one]

• 4. Port and Van Gelder's, 'Mind as Motion' - a dynamic systems theory of cognition

• 4. On the NORMA emulation of 'high level' software functions [part two]

• READING WEEK

• 7. Dan Dennett and the 'Multiple Drafts' hypothesis

• 7. On the speed up of NORMA flowchart programs

• 8. Roger Penrose and 'Quantum consciousness'

• 8. On the NORMA Self Applicability Problem

• 9. David Chalmers' and 'Non-reductive functionalism'

• 9. The NORMA Reduction Principle

• 10. Inman Harvey and 'Evolving Robot Consciousness'

• 10. On the number of computable functions

• 11. Bishop & Nasuto on 'Second Order Cybernetics and Enactive Perception'

• 11. On the Church-Turing thesis

All MSC students are also expected to attend the Goldsmiths College Whitehead lecture series. To be added to the Whitehead lecture series seminar mailing list, please contact Mark Bishop by email: m.bishop@gold.ac.uk.