On Consciousness

This week a lot of my attention was focused our upcoming reading project for English. In my group we will be doing a study of consciousness reading Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, Jeff Hawkin's On Intelligence, and Lucid Dreaming. We hope to gain a better understanding of how we perceive the world around us, the affects of technology on our expanding consciousness in the future, and how the brain functions from a neurological standpoint. Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near is a book about the merger between biological evolution and technological evolution, while Lucid Dreaming explores various areas of consciousness and the concept of lucid dreaming.

Also, Adam and I are both hoping to be chosen for Will's endersession on exploring consciousness, and we feel that this project will give us a good foundation going into his class. For the endersession there will be a lot of readings consciousness,and having started The Singularity I can already tell it's going to be helpful to be used to reading dense texts on the scientific aspect of neurological function. I am looking very forward to starting this project and learning about the way our brain perceives reality and the world around us, and possibly being accepted into Will's endersession on exploring consciousness.