Norm Friesen on the phenomenology of simulation technologies

Notes from Norm Friesen's talk yesterday at UBC

Norm Friesen
UBC
24 Oct 2012

normfriesen.info

Paper: Dissection & Simulation: Brilliance & Transparency or Encumbrance & Disruption?

Albert Bergmann on Hyperreality

Don Idhe - phenomenology and technology

Connection to Andrew Feenberg

Sometimes... Great scholar > Good teacher

Phenomenology as not critical

Threads of intentionality... Merleau-Ponty and strangeness

Sensory poverty

Dispositions related to teachers versus doctors or biologists

Simulation = Reality - task irrelevant elements
Gagne, Clariana; Jacobs & Dempsy, 1993

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