UCT GSB - What is a Mind?
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What is a Mind? at FutureLearn Overview
What is a Mind?
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Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,252 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Go to Website  |
Credential | Certificate |
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What is a Mind?
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- Duration 6 weeks
- Weekly study 3 hours
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What is a Mind? at FutureLearn Course details
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More about this course
- This free online course will bring together learners and practitioners interested in how the mind works. It aims to build bridges between traditionally antagonistic approaches to understanding the mind.
- This question has perplexed philosophers, scientists, historians and ordinary people across time and cultures.
- While advances in the medical understanding of how the brain functions can shed light on neurological functions and disorders, the essential question of what the mind is speaks to a different problem.
- This problem cannot be answered by a purely scientific understanding of the brain, nor by a purely philosophical or psychological approach. Many disciplines have attempted to address the question, resulting in multiple and sometimes antithetical answers.
- On this course, Professor Mark Solms, Chair of Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town, will adopt a multidisciplinary approach.
- He will bring in perspectives from a range of disciplines, to explore four specific aspects of the mind- subjectivity, intentionality, consciousness and agency. Together, these will help us think about the fundamental questions: what it is to be a mind, why we have a mind and what it feels like to have a mind.
- You can find out more in Professor Mark Solms's posts for the Future Learn blog.
What is a Mind? at FutureLearn Curriculum
What is a Mind?
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Understanding the Mind
Welcome to the course
Defining properties
Thinking further
What's next
Subjectivity
Introduction
Defining properties
Thinking further
What's next
Consciousness
Introduction
Defining properties
Thinking further
What's next
Intentionality and the unconscious
Introduction
Defining properties
Thinking further
What's next
Agency
Introduction
Defining properties
Thinking further
What's next
Changing the Mind
Introduction
Defining properties
Thinking further
What's next
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