PHIL 383 - From Neurons to Selves

Credit Hours: 4
A neuron in a petri dish cannot daydream, do calculus, deliberate about dinner, or be self-aware. Yet a human brain in a skull can. Is this difference due only to the (very considerable) difference in scale between the two? Or is there something to consciousness or to agency that is not reducible to brain activity? This course is an exploration of various competing explanations for how we move from having neurons to being selves.