Digital Solipsism
Identity, Attention Capture and the Erosion of Shared Reality
Investigate the existential and phenomenological impact of algorithmic echo chambers and curated feeds on human consciousness, exploring whether hyper-connectivity paradoxically deepens modern isolation and fragments collective moral truth
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Course Modules
Module 1: The Self Alone
3 lessons
The old philosophical worry that only one's own mind is certain, and how the self is experienced and performed.
Module 2: Attention as Commodity
3 lessons
Attention as the substance of a life, and what it means when it is captured and sold.
Module 3: Echo Chambers and Fractured Worlds
3 lessons
How personalised realities erode the common world on which moral and political life depends.
Module 4: Connected and Alone
3 lessons
Whether hyper-connectivity deepens isolation, and how a shared reality might be reclaimed.