Neosentience: A Potential Future Form of AI and Research Platform Development via Unreal Game Engine

Course explores a future form of AI called Neosentience based on mind/brain/body/environment relations (biomimetics). Weekly reports/discussions explore the topic from many perspectives related to different disciplinary understandings exploring humanistic, conceptual, computational & aesthetic paradigms—Conceptual Art. Students explore research driven by their disciplinary interests, feeding into real-world team-based research and discussion. Unreal Game Engine is being developed as a research platform/visualization system – Insight Engine 2.0. Students develop particular aspects of research: focused literature review, write a major research paper and/or define a related digital project.