FI:P040 Human-Machine Communication an

P040 Human-Machine Communication and Integration

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1995

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 3 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Chris Hables Gray (lecturer)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Origin Stories: Humans and tools. Humans and machines. Human-machines. The Great Chain of Being and Cartesian Dualism.
Biocybernetics and Bionics: What makes science science and technology technology? Technical issues of human-machine communication. Phenomenological and other critiques of computing.
Bioethics, Bionic Ethics and Cyborg Laws.
The Cyborg soldier: The military and man-machine weapon systems. Postmodern War. The limits of human-machine communication and integration revealed. Case study of the Aegis weapon system and its failures.
Cyborg Spaces: Extraterrestrial and Virtual. Embodiment, mind, and the future. Virtual and various other realities.
Medical Cyborgs: The dynamics of medical research. Technical issues of human-machine integration on a corporeal level.
Imagining Human and Machine futures: Science Fiction.
Cyborgology.

Language of instruction

Czech