Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Life, Brains and Consciousness
Coordinator
Ed Chaplin, M.D.
This program entails reading popular science books written for a general audience and participating in class discussions. This quarter we will be reading The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark. As the title suggests the book makes the case that the brain works as a prediction machine. As living organisms, we actively search the world external to us for opportunities and threats, and the search is shaped by our predictions of what each niche affords us.
October 1: Chapters 1-3
October 15: Chapters 4-7
October 29: Chapters 7, 8
November 12: Conclusions and Appendix, General Discussion
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