FI:P040 Human-Machine Communication an - Course Information

P040 Human-Machine Communication and Integration

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

• Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
• Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
• Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)

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

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