self and others

• science fiction
• science fact
• remarks

science fiction readings

• Jorge Luis Borges
• The Circular Ruins
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
• Philip K. Dick
  • The Unteleported Man
  • Eye in the Sky
  • The Martian Time-Slip
  • Time out of Joint
  • Ubik
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
• Greg Egan
• Axiomatic
• Permutation City
• Distress
• Diaspora (chapter 1 online: Orphanogenesis)

science fact readings

1. *Social cognition and the human brain, R. Adolphs, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3:469-479 (1999)
2. *Asperger syndrome: a simple matter of white matter?, H. D. Ellis and H. L. Gunter, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3:192-200 (1999)
3. *Self-representation in nervous systems, P. S. Churchland, Science 296:308-311 (2002)
4. *Neural systems involved in 'theory of mind', M. Siegal and R. Varley, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3:411-486 (2002)

remarks

• meeting 1: Egan; Adolphs (Feb 24)