Deric Bownds

MIND LECTURES & WRITINGS

The following essays or lectures have been composed since the publication of the Biology of the Mind book in 1999 and my retirement from the University of Wisconsin (and being Zoology Dept. Chair) in 2001. I have continued to teach the course occasionally since then. Since early 2006, maintaining the Mind Blog has taken and increasing fraction of my time.

• Are you holding your breath? - Structures of arousal and calm. - Lecture given to Univ. Wisc. Chaos Seminar Series, May 8, 2012. .
• Making Minds - Evolving and Constructing the "I".
- Univ. Wisc. Evolution Seminar Series, April 28, 2011.
• Who wants to know? - The Nature of our Subjective "I" - Lecture given at Istanbul Cognitive Neuroscience meeting, May, 2010.
• The "I" Illusion - Public lecture on the experiments that make it clear that our sense of having an "I" is an illusion, but it is not a trivial one.
• The Beast Within - Human Animals/Human Selves - We appear to be able to know the animal within us in a way that is closed to other animals lacking an “I”.
• MindStuff: A Guide for the Curious User - A brief essay on how things fit together.
• Mindstuff: BonBons - Sample writings and things I'm interested in.
• Thinking about Thinking - Biology of Mind course Lecture
• Evolving Mind - Biology of Mind course Lecture
• Origins and Structures of the Human Mind - Biology of Mind Public Lecture

Other Public Lectures Available for Presentation:

Plastic Mind - Making Human Selves, The Biology of the Mature Mind: Enhancing Thought and Action, Understanding How Our Minds Work, Mind and Emotion - Issues of Nature and Nurture.