Schedule

The whole of SLOP3233 on one page: what is lectured, what happens in the seminar, and what is due.

Twelve weeks, Semester 1 2027. Lectures are Mondays and seminars are Thursdays. The four parts are not chapters — each one depends on the one before it, and weeks 8 to 10 are there to test whether the first seven weeks described intelligence or just described us.

Teaching schedule by week, with lecture, seminar and assessment due dates
Week	Lecture (Mon)	Seminar (Thu)	Due
Part I — The premise
1	Too large to represent22 Feb	A world too large25 Feb	—
2	What a sense organ is for1 Mar	Measurement4 Mar	—
Part II — Interior models
3	Memory outside the head8 Mar	The trace11 Mar	—
4	Correlation, standing in for cause15 Mar	Association18 Mar	—
5	The map, and what it was really for22 Mar	Structure not sensed25 Mar	—
6	Perception as construction29 Mar	Prediction1 Apr	—
7	Modelling the modeller5 Apr	The self-model8 Apr	News and Views25% · 9 Apr
Part III — The control group
8	A million neurons is plenty12 Apr	Small brains15 Apr	—
9	Another architecture entirely19 Apr	Alien architecture22 Apr	—
10	Cognition outside the individual26 Apr	Offloaded29 Apr	—
Part IV — The human case, and its limits
11	The catalogue, graded by its own scheme3 May	The catalogue, and its own problem6 May	Position statement and revision20% · 7 May
12	The blind spot10 May	The blind spot13 May	Calibrated quizzes15% · 13 MayCognitive profile40% · 21 May

Two dates that are not in the table

The position statement is due at the end of week 3 and carries no marks. It is a hurdle for the revision in week 11, and it is the one deadline in this course that cannot be extended — a statement written in week 8 has already been contaminated by the thing it is supposed to predate.

Reading

There is primary literature every week and it is listed on each seminar page rather than collected here, because which paper matters depends on what the week is doing with it. Most weeks one paper is the one the seminar is built around.