PSYCH 137N
Conscious Experience: Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
Description: Lecture, three hours. Conscious experience is arguably the most remarkable thing in the universe, and yet it is largely ignored because it is the background precondition for everything else in our lives and because it is difficult to study scientifically. Examination of what is known and, just as importantly, what is unknown about conscious experience. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2025 - This class, in my personal experience, is an absolutely terrible time for a few reasons. The worst part of this class for me was that there is no textbook, barely anything written on the slides, and he refuses to use BruinCast because he doesn't want to be recorded; instead uploads audio files from each lecture. An example of how frustrating this is is when you are listening to the audio and looking at the slide with an image of the brain and he says "this part of the brain is associated with this and this is associated with that" AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HE IS POINTING TO BECAUSE ITS NOT ON THE SLIDES AND YOU CAN'T SEE IT AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! like why, why why WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!! This makes it an absolute nightmare to study for exams. He offers lots of extra credit, which is good because the exams are fairly difficult. The content is overall very difficult to grasp conceptually, and I do not think he does a good job of explaining things. His method for attendance is also a bit crazy. While attendance is also extra credit, which is nice, he takes a video of the class, and you have to respond in a Google form saying where you sat in the class, and then he uses the video to cross-reference that you were actually there. Weirdly, a man who is so afraid of being recorded is okay with taking a video of the entire lecture hall every day. While I expect to end this quarter with an A because I did all the extra credit and studied by butt off for the midterm and final, I would get really frustrated while studying because there wasn't much to use other than listening to his lectures and using Mattgbt (which, yes he made his own ChatGPT) and sometimes what he says in lecture does not line up with the AI which makes me not trust it. Overall, I do not recommend taking this class unless you are super interested in consciousness because he did kind of start that field of study.
Fall 2025 - This class, in my personal experience, is an absolutely terrible time for a few reasons. The worst part of this class for me was that there is no textbook, barely anything written on the slides, and he refuses to use BruinCast because he doesn't want to be recorded; instead uploads audio files from each lecture. An example of how frustrating this is is when you are listening to the audio and looking at the slide with an image of the brain and he says "this part of the brain is associated with this and this is associated with that" AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HE IS POINTING TO BECAUSE ITS NOT ON THE SLIDES AND YOU CAN'T SEE IT AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! like why, why why WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!! This makes it an absolute nightmare to study for exams. He offers lots of extra credit, which is good because the exams are fairly difficult. The content is overall very difficult to grasp conceptually, and I do not think he does a good job of explaining things. His method for attendance is also a bit crazy. While attendance is also extra credit, which is nice, he takes a video of the class, and you have to respond in a Google form saying where you sat in the class, and then he uses the video to cross-reference that you were actually there. Weirdly, a man who is so afraid of being recorded is okay with taking a video of the entire lecture hall every day. While I expect to end this quarter with an A because I did all the extra credit and studied by butt off for the midterm and final, I would get really frustrated while studying because there wasn't much to use other than listening to his lectures and using Mattgbt (which, yes he made his own ChatGPT) and sometimes what he says in lecture does not line up with the AI which makes me not trust it. Overall, I do not recommend taking this class unless you are super interested in consciousness because he did kind of start that field of study.
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