Philosophy: Minds and Machines - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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An introduction to philosophy of mind, exploring consciousness, reality, AI, and more. The most in-depth philosophy course available online.
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Subjects
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Minds
- Argumentation
- Mental states
Course programme
What you'll learn
- The basics of argumentation
- Some central arguments for and against the view that a sufficiently powerful computer can think (AI)
- The main theories of mental states and their relations to physical states
- Some central arguments for and against the view that the world is not as we perceive it to be
- What the "hard problem of consciousness" is
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Philosophy: Minds and Machines - Massachusetts Institute of Technology