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Digital Solipsism

PH202
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.

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The Self Alone

1

Solipsism and the Problem of Other Minds

You will understand why the certainty of your own consciousness creates a philosophical puzzle about whether other people truly exist as conscious beings, and how this ancient worry shapes modern digital isolation.

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2

Phenomenology: The Lived World of Experience

Understand how consciousness encounters the world directly, and why your immediate, felt experience differs radically from how algorithms present that world to you.

25 min
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3

The Self as Narrative and Performance

You will understand how the self is not a fixed essence but a story we tell and retell, performed differently across contexts, and how digital platforms amplify both the construction and fragmentation of identity.

25 min
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