MIT 6.868J The Society of Mind, Fall 2011

This course is an introduction to the theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler processes. Created by MIT OpenCourseWare.


Average Course Length

30 hours


Skill Level

Intermediate



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1: Introduction
2: Falling In Love
3: Cognitive Architectures
4: Question and Answer Session 1
5: From Panic to Suffering
6: Layers of Mental Activities
7: Layered Knowledge Representations
8: Question and Answer Session 2
9: Common Sense
10: Question and Answer Session 3
11: Mind vs. Brain: Confessions of a Defector
12: Question and Answer Session 4
13: Closing Thoughts