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Digital Solipsism

PH202
Module 4: Connected and Alone
3 Lessons

Whether hyper-connectivity deepens isolation, and how a shared reality might be reclaimed.

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Connected and Alone

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Connected and Alone: The Paradox of Hyper-Connectivity

You will understand how the technologies designed to connect us can intensify isolation, fragment our perception of shared reality, and create a peculiar modern loneliness distinct from solitude.

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Buber's I-Thou: Presence Beyond the Screen

You will understand how Martin Buber's philosophy of genuine encounter challenges the transactional nature of digital connection and what it means to meet another person as a subject rather than an object.

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Attention, Dialogue and Reclaiming Shared Reality

You will understand how conscious attention and genuine dialogue can rebuild trust in a common world, and why this work is both personal and political.

25 min
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