Week One and two: Introduction to Course Themes

Humans and machines, who (what?) are we really?

Read: ch 1

Turing machine due on monday of week 2.

Week Three: Symbol systems

Read: ch 2

Week Four: Patterns, contents, and causes

Read: ch 3

Reflection 1 due

Week Five: Connectionism

Read: ch 4

Week Six: Perception, action, brain

Read: ch 5

Reflection 2 due

Week Seven: Robots and AI

Read: Read 6

Week Eight: Dynamics

Read: ch 7

Reflection 3 due

Week Nine: More dynamics

Read: extra materials

Week 10: Cog Tech: beyond brain

Read: ch 8

Reflection 4 due

Week 11: Consciousness

Read: Appendix II

Week 12: More consciousness

Read: TBD

Reflection 5 due

Week 13: Ethics

Read: TBD

Week 14: TBD

Week 15: TBD

Week 16: TBD

Week 17: