Consciousness Courses and Certifications

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Historical Perspectives on AGI: Definitions, Consciousness, and Alignment Challenges

Explore key debates around AGI through expert perspectives on consciousness, behavior, and alignment, examining scientific theories and current limitations in artificial intelligence development.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Philosophy and the Sciences: Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences

1456 ratings at Coursera

Examine philosophical questions raised by cognitive science: the evolution of the human mind, the nature of consciousness, intelligent machines, and embodied cognition.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Embracing Unity Consciousness (Live Online)

35 ratings at CourseHorse

Discover the transformative power of unity consciousness and step into a life of mindful change-making.

• CourseHorse
• 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• $60.00

Elevate Consciousness with Source (Live Online)

33 ratings at CourseHorse

Embark on a transformative journey to elevate your consciousness through the power of Source energy.

• CourseHorse
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• $50.00

Georg Lukács: Consciousness and Revolution (Live Online)

33 ratings at CourseHorse

Dive into one of the most influential Marxist texts of the 20th century and explore Georg Lukács’ revolutionary theories on class consciousness, ideology, and reification.

• CourseHorse
• 12 hours
• Self-Paced
• $335.00

Introduction to Philosophy: God, Knowledge and Consciousness

Learn to construct and analyze philosophical arguments about God's existence, theories of knowledge, physicalist and non-physicalist consciousness, free will and determinism, and personal identity.

• MITx Online
• 12 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Artificial Intelligence: Ethics & Societal Challenges

390 ratings at Coursera

Explore the ethical and societal stakes of AI: algorithmic bias, surveillance, effects on democracy, artificial consciousness, and responsibility and control over superintelligent machines.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Power of the Mind in Health and Healing

3566 ratings at Udemy

A science-based course about using the power of your mind to heal your body and maximize your intuition.

• Udemy
• 5 hours 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Question Reality! Science, philosophy, a search for meaning

42 ratings at Coursera

Trace how thinkers from Plato to Einstein explained reality: the limits of knowledge, cosmology, quantum physics, matter, and the nature of consciousness.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Question Reality: Mind

15 ratings at Coursera

Explore whether a machine can mimic a brain: examine logic, simulations, perspectives on consciousness, free will, and the potential of artificial intelligence.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

The Basics of Libertarian Free Will

11 ratings at Coursera

Dismantle arguments against free will: distinguish freedom from and within constraint, examine causation and consciousness, and compare two types of libertarian free will against determinism.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Minds and Machines

Explore philosophy of mind: weigh arguments for and against machine thinking, compare theories of mental states and physical states, and confront the hard problem of consciousness.

• MITx Online
• 12 weeks, 4-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Philosophical Issues in Brain Science

Philosophy of mind tested against psychology and neuroscience: innate concepts, mental images, color, and whether consciousness can have a science, with guest researchers.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

11 ratings at OpenLearn

The body has traditionally been treated as a biological object in psychology. However, is there more to our bodies than that? Some psychologists recognise that we relate to other people and the ...

• OpenLearn
• 15 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

The Royal Institution

How Did Consciousness Evolve? - With Nicholas Humphrey

Explore the evolution of consciousness with psychologist Nicholas Humphrey, examining its origins, presence in animals, and potential future, while delving into the nature of sentience and its implications.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video