The Adventure of Consciousness (Udemy.com)

Good thing is that the course is very thorough, covers many topics that I've come across studying the same subject elsewhere. The unfortunate thing is that the material feels more like a manifesto / opinion book than an unbiased course. From the get go the course states that conscience isn't explainable by science at all and then proceeds to provide "proofs" throughout the material. While some arguments are valid, some rely on people not understanding the supporting arguments enough. E.g. suggestions that AI does not understand Go or word meanings, which isn't the case. In fact, current Anthropic research on alignment is probably smth that is closest to analysis of conscience in machines, and this is only a start. Or a statement that progress in DNA sequencing did not lead to any meaningful progress. It in fact did - MRNA vaccines got created within weeks because of that, and recent news about a guy who got a cancer vaccine for his dog using DNA sequence, ChatGPT & AlphaFold. Also, it'd be great to separate videos into smaller parts, e.g. 10-15 minutes instead of 30+.

I bought the course as I remembered the instructor on the faculty of now defunct UPR university. The course is interesting and I am glad I bought it, but it loses one star due to the instructor's thick (and I mean thick) Italian accent that gets in the way too much.

Marco is a breath of fresh air in this field! Thank you for this great course, for all the knowledge you transmit and for this (today really rare!) point of view on the world between science and spirituality. Awesome course. I‘m so happy I found it. As a philosophy graduate I can only recommend it. The level is quite well chosen, not too easy not too hard to follow. Thank you so much!

Superbly crafted course material. Does a great job of making a complex and difficult subject easier to comprehend. Thank you.

The course is informative and well illustrated even though I don’t agree 100% with the final conclusion.

An interesting summary/review of what philosophers and others have hypothesized about consciousness.

I've long been waiting for a course that fuses consciousness studies, philosophy and physics. This is a gem in the making!

The topic of consciousness is one that I have been interested in all my life. The course explains brilliantly the concepts and problems associated with this topic. I find myself internally yelling "yes!" when it articulates so well the concepts that I have struggled to put into words over the years. Well done!

Amazing course, the topic is extremely intriguing and worth thinking about. Thank you Dr. Masi for sharing you knowledge in Udemy!

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