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This is the old MEFT3102 site
This is the old MEFT3102 site. The new one is here.
No commentsE-Learning Focus Groups
If there are any students on the course willing to roll up for an e-learning focus group, could you please contact Andrew as soon as you can. It would be quite simple – an hour long discussion with a facilitator concerning what you know, like, don’t like, when it comes to “e-learning”.
Thanks, Andrew!
No commentsMore on the “nature of mind” …
Here is a great and short summary of some of the issues from Franciso Varela’s perspective – “Why the mind is not in the head”.
And for those interested there are some great blogs/podcasts out there on the mind, the brain, psychology and technology. I think the best podcast is Australia’s own All in the Mind. You can download it from the ABC.
No commentsProtected: Lecture 2 links
Transhumanism – some interesting articles
“Transhumanism” refers to the belief that technology will help us transcend the limits of the human to become perfect (and perhaps immortal) beings. There’s an interesting series of discussions of transhumanism here, by the like of prominent thinkers such as N. Katherine Hayles, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Andrew Pickering and Don Ihde.
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