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Introduction to questions in the study of the philosophy of mind. Explores the difficulties of studying the mind and limitations of scientific investigation into the mind, including using data-processing machines as a model of the mind; the problem of other minds; questions regarding free will; what it means to be conscious; the claims of weak and strong A.I.; and the possibility of consciousness or intelligence in animals, in the natural world, and in machines. Offered occasionally.