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The Rest of You

• Dan O'Sullivan dan.osullivan@nyu.edu, office hours
• Zoran Josipovic zj232@nyu.edu

Week 1: Consciousness is Overrated (by Consciousness)

• Structure of the course
• Examples
• Student Introductions
• Zoran: Consciousness and Reality Notes
• Assignment: Think about what is missing. Comment on Readings using the wiki. Add to Examples wiki.
• Reading: Cognition, Brain, and Consciousness, Baars and Gage, Power of Now

Week 2: Getting Objective

• Transmitting using bluetooth with a microcontroller.
• Collecting data on a cellphone using the Logger Midlet
• Assignment: Have and Idea for Better Capturing Your Experience, Plan A Way to Do it,Talk about it on the wiki.
• Reading:Flow

Week 3: Zoran: Meditation and Human-Computer Interaction

• Meditation: its purpose and methods
• The Brain and the Computer: same or different?
• Reading: Baars and Gage: Chapter 3, Power of Now

Week 4: Dan: Visualizing Data

• Show Logging assignment.
• Plotting data in processing
• Nokia Example - Arduino Example
• Assignment: Plot your sensor readings and identify periods of pleasure in your day.

Week 5: Zoran: Meditation and Positive Psychology

• Development of Positive Psychology
• The Experience of ‘Flow’
• Opening into higher dimensions
• Reading: Tal Ben-Shahar: Happier

Week 6: Dan: You are a Monkey

• Show Plotting.
• Using Autonomic Sensors heart rate, gsr, eeg, eyetracking, Discuss
• Assignment: Connect to some less consciously controlled part of your body.

Week7 October 16 : Zoran: Communication Exercizes

• Authenticity
• Intersubjectivity
• Reading: Baars and Gage: Chapter 14

Week8 October 23: Dan: You are not a Monkey, Metadata

• Show Autonomic Sensor.
• Text Logging. Trapping keystrokes or packet sniffing on the computer. Language
• Word analysis.

Week 9 October 30 Zoran: Future Scenarios

• Artificial Intelligence
• Zombies: Australian and ours
• A new Darwin
• Reading: Baars and Gage: Appendix A

Week10 November 6: Dan: Final Project Ideas

• Show Automatic Text Logging,
• Talk about final project ideas
• Reading: Baars and Gage:Appendix B

Week 11 November 13 : Zoran and Dan Student Final Project Proposals

Week 12 November 20 : Zoran and Dan Student Final Project Proposals

Week 13 November 27 : Dan Workshop

Week 14 December 4 : Dan Final