Today was the final lecture in my Introduction to Cognitive Science course. Thank the fates it is over.
I started this having no real idea of the topic, never having taught what Americans are pleased to call "freshmen" and we call "first-years", and with the first two lectures occurring in my absence as I was at a conference in the UK. So it has been a bit like surfing a wave of magma.
Anyway, I dropped my hindbrain (17" MacPowerBook G4) on Friday and shattered the LCD. This has made it hard to (i) prepare the lecture, (ii) give the lecture, and (iii) post blog entries. Now that I have time, and it is being repaired, I am to fix this.
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