ESP Biography



POOJA DESAI, ESP Teacher




Major: Neuroscience

College/Employer: Columbia University

Year of Graduation: 2018

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Past Classes

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S467: From Frankenstein to Ex Machina: Creating Consciousness in Science and Pop Culture in Splash Spring 2017 (Mar. 25, 2017)
Questions about our consciousness have been at the core of scientific and social questioning for centuries. What makes us human? What is the human consciousness? These tensions are as apparent in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as they are in today's world of Artificial Intelligence, and films such as "Her" and "Ex Machina". This class will explore the scientific roots behind these pop-culture phenomena. How do memory and personality form? What makes us fully intelligent and conscious beings? What makes us, us? And, as we move into a world of Artificial Intelligence, how do these questions shape our interactions and our futures.


S441: From Frankenstein to Ex Machina: Creating Consciousness in Science and Pop Culture in Splash Fall 2016 (Nov. 05, 2016)
Questions about our consciousness have been at the core of scientific and social questioning for centuries. What makes us human? What is the human consciousness? These tensions are as apparent in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as they are in today's world of Artificial Intelligence, and films such as "Her" and "Ex Machina". This class will explore the scientific roots behind these pop-culture phenomena. How do memory and personality form? What makes us fully intelligent and conscious beings? What makes us, us? And, as we move into a world of Artificial Intelligence, how do these questions shape our interactions and our futures.