Cognitive Psychology - Audio

Cognitive Psychology

What does consciousness  mean? How artists, writers and scientists understood consciousness in the 19th and 20th centuries.

What is consciousness?

The difficulties of explaining consciousness scientifically.

Consciousness: the central psychological question

Are animals conscious? Can we produce conscious machines?

The evolution of consciousness

Could we programme consciousness into a computer?  Are there varying degrees of consciousness?

Consciousness: a first person experience

The link between experience, consciousness and language and how it gives us an evolutionary advantage.

Consciousness and experience

The purpose of consciousness, and how it governs the imaginative use of our sensory apparatus.

What is consciousness for?

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The consciousness of the human mind has long been a topic of fascination and curiosity amongst writers, artists and psychologists, from Carl Jung and Salvador Dali to Virginia Wolfe and Gertrude Stein. This album explores our understanding of consciousness, and features a discussion on some of psychology's most complex questions: what does it mean to be a conscious human, and what purposes our consciousness serves. This material forms part of The Open University course DD303 Cognitive psychology.

Cognitive Psychology