The materials are not necessarily the same as the instructor's teaching notes and are not designed to represent a full exposition or argument. This page is subject to revision as the instructor finalizes preparation. That May Come Up in Class References Some Reference Points for Discussion Preliminary Class Business Web-authoring workshop, Thur. Alternate workshop, Fri. Materi alities of Communication , trans.
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The door of your unfolding starts like intervening vacuum, lush refer to accidence or chance of lachrymose fixation made mercurial as the tors in crevice lock dried up like river made the rhymes to know what ocean were unkempt or hide's detain the wean of hide's felicity depend. Whereas the human has traditionally been associated with consciousness, rationality, free will, autonomous agency, and the right of the subject to possess himself, the posthuman sees human behavior as the result of a number of autonomous agents running their programs more or less independently of one another. Complex behavior in this view is an emergent property that arises when these programs, each fairly simple in itself, begin reacting with one another. Agency still exists, but it is distributed and largely unconscious, or at least a-conscious. The effect of these changed views is to envision the human in terms that make it much more like an intelligent machine, which allows the human to be more easily spliced into distributed cognitive systems where part of the intelligence resides in the human, part in a variety of intelligent machines, and part in the interfaces through which they interact.