Self-awareness Courses

Magnificent Rebels - The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Explore the revolutionary ideas of 18th-century Jena, where brilliant minds like Goethe and Hegel reshaped philosophy, science, and art, redefining the concept of self and inspiring modern thought.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Emergence, Self-Organization, and Complexity

Explore the interconnected concepts of emergence, self-organization, and complexity with Carlos Gershenson, gaining insights into how these phenomena shape our world and understanding of systems.

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

Using Computation to Drive the Self-Assembly of Complex Structures

Explore computational approaches for driving self-assembly of complex structures, unlocking new possibilities in materials science and nanotechnology.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Self-Assembling Horde: Building Functional Structures on the Move

Explore how collective organisms build functional structures while in motion, focusing on self-assembling processes and their applications in various fields of science and engineering.

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

Me and My Markov Blanket - Biological Self-Organization and Free Energy

Explore how biological self-organization emerges from systems with Markov blankets, leading to a Bayesian mechanics where internal states model and act on their environment to preserve integrity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Loss of Self-Organization in Earth's Climate

Análisis de cambios en la autorregulación del clima terrestre mediante herramientas de sistemas complejos, comparando datos de temperatura global con el modelo Daisyworld.

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

Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain

Explore the biological basis of consciousness, identity, and decision-making with neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland as she examines how brain activity shapes our thoughts, feelings, and experiences.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Arbitrage Equilibrium and the Invisible Hand in Self-organizing Dynamics of Biological Systems

Explore how economic concepts like arbitrage apply to biological systems. Learn about a novel game-theoretic framework integrating survival-driven behavior with statistical mechanics in active matter systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Self-Organization of Strong Connections in the Brain

Uncover how heavy-tailed connectivity in neural networks emerges from simple mechanisms. Explore a model of synaptic self-organization and its implications for understanding brain structure across species.

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

Laplace Meets Godel: How Self-Reference Foils Prediction

Explore how self-reference and counterprediction create inherent unpredictability in deterministic systems, challenging traditional assumptions about perfect prediction in Jenann Ismael's thought-provoking analysis.

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

A Markov Chain Theory of Self-Organization in Nonequilibrium Systems

Explore the groundbreaking theory of 'rattling' in nonequilibrium systems and its role in predicting ordered states across scientific domains, from living systems to statistical mechanics.

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

Are Self-Citations a Normal Feature of Knowledge Accumulation - Vincent Lariviere

Explore the role of self-citations in academic research, examining criticisms, conceptual issues, and their impact on knowledge accumulation through similarity analysis.

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

Why "Self-Generated Learning" May Be More Radical and Consequential Than First Appears

Explore self-generated learning's radical impact on cognitive development through data-driven insights, experiments, and complex dynamic systems analysis with Linda Smith.

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

Could a Purely Self-Supervised Foundation Model Achieve Grounded Language Understanding?

Exploring the potential of self-supervised foundation models for grounded language understanding, discussing semantics, multi-modal streams, and causal abstraction in large networks.

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

Self-Organization at the Origin of Biological Construction - Corina E Tarnita

Explore self-organization in biological systems, focusing on ants and social complexity. Learn how evolutionary biology explains the emergence of intricate structures and behaviors in nature.

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