DIGI202-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020

Cyberspace, Cyborgs, and the Meaning of Life

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2020
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 February 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 29 May 2020

Description

This course investigates a raft of questions - concerning mind, metaphysics, knowledge and human nature - thrown up by the ongoing revolution in information technology. These include: Might I attain immortality by porting myself into cyberspace? Am I already in cyberspace? Is the universe nothing but a computer? Should we fear a forthcoming Age of Robots? Is my iPhone part of my mind? Could a computer ever be programmed to be creative and intelligent, and to equal or exceed the problem solving capacities of the human brain?

Prerequisites

Any 15 points at 100 level from COSC, DIGI, MATH, or
PHIL, or
any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Douglas Campbell

Contact Douglas for further information.

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Essay 1 35%
Essay 2 35%
Six bi-weekly assessment tasks 30% Each task is worth 5%.
Attendance Negative 5% if poor.

Course links

Library portal
Philosophy Essay Writing Guide (available to all enrolled Philosophy students)
Course Outline

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $777.00

International fee $3,375.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All DIGI202 Occurrences

  • DIGI202-20S1 (C) Semester One 2020
  • DIGI202-20S1 (D) Semester One 2020 (Distance)
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