What does consciousness  mean? How artists, writers and scientists understood consciousness in the 19th and 20th centuries.

What does consciousness mean? How artists, writers and scientists understood consciousness in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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The consciousness of the human mind has long been a topic of fascination and curiosity amongst writers, artists and psychologists, from Carl Jung and Salvador Dali to Virginia Wolfe and Gertrude Stein. This album explores our understanding of consciousness, and features a discussion on some of psychology's most complex questions: what does it mean to be a conscious human, and what purposes our consciousness serves. This material forms part of The Open University course DD303 Cognitive psychology.

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