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    What is a Mind Week 2 - Studying the mind
    (2015-08-15) Solms, Mark
    In this video, Professor Mark Solms discusses the subjective aspect of the mind and the problem of other minds, the difficulty in studying and observing the subjective experience of minds. He also explores the different ways the discipline of psychology has attempted to study the mind. This is video 1 in Week 2 of the What is a Mind MOOC.
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    What is a Mind Week 2 - Testing for subjectivity
    (2015-08-15) Solms, Mark
    In this video, Professor Mark Solms describes the need for an objective criterion for determining whether something else other than ourselves has a mind or not. He examines one proposed criterion, the Turing test and explores an important philosophical question posed by French philosopher René Descartes. This is video 2 in Week 2 of the What is a Mind MOOC.