# Site

## Pages

- [Page not found](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/404/): That page doesn't exist, or it has moved since you last looked
- [Assessment](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/assessments/): Every piece of graded work in the course, what it is worth, and when it is due.
- [Close description report](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/assessments/close-description-report/): A rigorous descriptive-phenomenology essay on one experience from the first half of the semester
- [Final portfolio: The hard problem, lived](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/assessments/final-portfolio/): A capstone synthesis arguing your own position on whether describing an experience can ever close the gap with living it
- [Induced experience project](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/assessments/induced-experience-project/): Design and run a deliberate attempt to induce one of the course's target experiences, then document what actually happened
- [Noticing log](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/assessments/noticing-log/): The semester-long journal of your weekly practicum entries, submitted together near the end of term
- [Paired curation project](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/assessments/paired-curation-project/): Curate the thrill of anticipation and the warmth of morning sunlight, each once with someone you know and once with someone you don't
- [Lectures](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/): What is covered, week by week, and which topics each lecture draws on.
- [Why describing isn't living](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-01/): Orientation — the explanatory gap, Nagel's bat, and why this course is a practicum instead of a reading list
- [Consciousness that isn't solo](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-02/): What laughter's contagiousness says about experiences that only exist between people, not inside one
- [The same signal, two meanings](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-03/): Closing unit 1 — how identical bodily sensations can carry opposite meanings depending on what produced them
- [What the mind does with nothing to do](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-04/): Opening unit 2 — the default mode network, mind-wandering, and boredom as a state with its own structure
- [The threshold with no witness](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-05/): Why falling asleep is the hardest state in the course to study, and what hypnagogia tells us anyway
- [Answers that arrive before the reasoning](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-06/): Closing unit 2 — the incubation effect, and why insight so reliably shows up mid-shower rather than mid-effort
- [The shortest road to memory](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-07/): Opening unit 3 — why smell reaches memory faster and more involuntarily than any other sense
- [When silence is a shared state](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-08/): What comfortable silence tells us about consciousness that depends on another mind being present
- [The body knows before the thought does](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-09/): Closing unit 3 — the somatic marker hypothesis, and why relief so often feels physical before it feels like a conclusion
- [The self against a much larger scale](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-10/): Opening unit 4 — the psychology of awe, "small self" effects, and why a known fact can suddenly become a felt one
- [The gravity of an absence](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-11/): Why grief resists the neat-stages model, and why this course studies its shape rather than asking anyone to manufacture it
- [What the semester doesn't resolve](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/lectures/week-12/): The closing lecture — surveying the semester's twelve inductions and declining to hand over a tidy theory of consciousness at the end
- [People](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/people/): Who teaches the course, and how to reach them.
- [Sef Amaral](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/people/sef-amaral/): Runs the weekly practicum, drawing on a background in contemplative and somatic practice to keep each induction honest, safe and actually noticed
- [Wren Okafor](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/people/wren-okafor/): Cognitive scientist and phenomenologist who designed the course's induce-notice-describe method after years of frustration with description that never touched the thing it described
- [Policies and support](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/policies/): The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.
- [Cold shock](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/01-cold-shock/): The orientation practicum — a cold-water induction and the first attempt to separate a sensation from your reaction to it
- [Uncontrollable laughter](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/02-uncontrollable-laughter/): A practicum in losing control on purpose — chasing the point where laughing stops being a choice
- [The earned ache](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/03-earned-ache/): Closing unit 1 — real physical labor, and the particular calm that only shows up after it
- [Unstructured boredom](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/04-unstructured-boredom/): Opening unit 2 — forty minutes with nothing to do, no phone, and no task, and whatever the mind does when nothing is pinning it down
- [The drift into sleep](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/05-drift-into-sleep/): Catching the threshold where conscious logic dissolves and the mind hands itself over to dreams
- [The spark of intuition](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/06-spark-of-intuition/): Closing unit 2 — setting up a problem, stepping away from it, and catching the answer arriving before the reasoning does
- [Nostalgia by scent](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/07-nostalgia-by-scent/): Opening unit 3 — using smell, the sense with the shortest route to memory, to unearth a chapter you weren't trying to reach
- [Comfortable silence](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/08-comfortable-silence/): A practicum with someone you trust and nothing to say — where the absence of talking feels grounding rather than empty
- [Relief of a resolved worry](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/09-relief-of-resolved-worry/): Closing unit 3 — the sudden physical lightness when a lingering dread actually evaporates, caught in real time rather than recalled afterwards
- [Awe under a dark sky](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/10-awe-under-dark-sky/): Opening unit 4 — the dizzying vertigo of looking into deep space, and feeling impossibly small while intensely alive to witness it
- [Grief](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/11-grief/): The hollow ache of an absence, where the space someone or something used to fill carries its own heavy, enduring gravity
- [The peace of letting go](https://comp4020-agentic-coding-studio.github.io/comp4020-ass2-p-venkatram/sessions/12-letting-go/): The capstone practicum — the conscious release of tension when you stop trying to control an outcome and just breathe into the uncertainty