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Video 1: Can Computers Have Personalities?
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Robots may be a long way from artificial intelligence, but can they have personalities?
 

Video 2: What Makes Me?
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: How the brain gives rise to our thoughts, emotions, our memories and personality.

Video 3: The Neuroscience of Consciousness, University of Melbourne
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords. Specialising in the physiology of the brain, Susan researches the impact of 21st century technologies on the mind, how the brain generates consciousness and novel approaches to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
 

Audio 1: BBC Reith Lectures, Neuroscience - the New Philosophy
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: In his final Reith Lecture, Professor Ramachandran argues that neuroscience, perhaps more than any other discipline, is capable of transforming man's understanding of himself and his place in the cosmos.
 

Audio 2: Harvard University: Talking Machines
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: A talk with Sham Kakade, of Microsoft Research New England, about his expansive work which touches on everything from neuroscience to theoretical machine learning. Ryan Introduces us to active learning and we take a question on evolutionary algorithms.
 

Audio 3: University of Cambridge: Brain, body and mind: new directions in the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: How conscious is my dog? Can robots become conscious? Are people in a vegetative state conscious? Philosopher Professor Tim Crane and neuroscientist Dr. Srivas Chennu look into our minds and wrestle with the meaning of what it is to be conscious.
 

Website 1: Psychology Today, Neuroscience-Essential Reads
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Understanding the balance between neural excitation and inhibition could be key to understanding many brain disorders.
 

Website 2: Psych Central
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: Psych Central is the Internet’s largest and oldest independent mental health social network. Since 1995, our award-winning website has been run by mental health professionals offering reliable, trusted information and over 250 support groups to consumers.
 

Website 3: Neuroscience News
Learning Objective: LO 1
Summary: A science website dedicated strictly to neuroscience research news. To this day, the site is an independent science news website focusing mainly on neuroscience and other cognitive sciences.