LEC 1 (1/20)- 2001: A Space Odyssey-Stanley Kubrick,Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke’s 3rdlaw - modern science, astronomy - Chauvet cave paintings, France - hominin evolution - hominin genera: - Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, - Homo - evolution of brain/skull size - violence, killing of conspecifics - Does HAL have a mind? LEC 2 (1/22) - mind, consciousness, mental experience - Mind-body problem - physicalism / physical materialism - nervous system complexity across species - cerebral cortex, sulci, gyri - cerebral lobes: - frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital - gray matter, white matter - corpus callosum - Andreas Vesalius - meninges: dura, arachnoid, pia LEC 3 (1/27) -William James, Principles of Psychology - René Descartes - Luigi Galvani - Camilio Golgi, Golgi stain - SantiagoRamón y Cajal - chemistry, alchemy - Dmitri Mendeleev - periodic table of the chemical elements - atoms, ions, charge - elemental composition of the human body - molecules, covalent bonds - polarity - organic molecules, hydrocarbons LEC 4 (1/29)- Ernest Lawrence, cyclotron - hydrophobic / lipophilic; - hydrophilic / lipophobic
