Informações sobre o curso: Emotions are the backbone of social activities as well as they drive the cognitive processes of several living entities. This course tries to elucidate the controversial nature of emotions and their evolutionary meaning. Several animals, including humans, have emotions but…what about machines? This is a course to feel and think about.

Para quem é direcionado este curso: No academic background is required to take the course. However, there is a desiderata: to have an open-minded attitude towards new information and ideas.

Desenvolvido por: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Ministrado por: Jordi Vallverdú, Professor Dr.
Philosophy Department

Nível	Básico
Compromisso	3-5 horas/semana
Idioma	English
Como ser aprovado	Seja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso.
Classificação do usuário	4.2 estrelas Classificação média do usuário 4.2Veja o que os aprendizes disseram

Programa

SEMANA 1

Welcome!

Welcome to this amazing course on the nature of emotions. You’ll see that emotions are everywhere. They are the true meaning of our lives and guide us all throughout our daily actions. There is a lot to discuss, to think about, to discover about them! Six weeks for a Course, one Course for new Knowledge!

1 vídeos, 5 leituras

Reading: Welcome, Learners!
Reading: Course format
Reading: Syllabus
Reading: Evaluation
Reading: Certification

Where do emotions come from?

At the very beginning of this course we will look at the basic definitions and concepts related to the emotional events. At the same time we will introduce basic philosophical ideas in order to make possible the understanding of the nature of emotional values.

5 videos, 1 leituras

Reading: Week 1 Overview
Vídeo: The ABC of emotional processes
Vídeo: Why do emotions exist and how many living entities have emotions?
Vídeo: How did emotions evolve?
Vídeo: Where do emotions happen?

Nota atribuída: L1A Exam - Lessons/Videos

Nota atribuída: L1B Exam - Reading and External Video

SEMANA 2

How many emotions do exist?

After the clarification about the different aspects we can find in emotional analysis, we will look at the number and type of different emotions. There are several theories about their number, and all of them also contain a way to understand how emotions emerged and evolved. The debate will be fun!

5 videos, 1 leituras

Reading: Week 2 Overview
Vídeo: A taxonomy of emotions
Vídeo: The geography of emotions: Guilt vs Shame cultures
Vídeo: Aware: attention, data selection and the aesthetical feeling of ahness
Vídeo: L2.5. No pain, no gain? The modulatory nature of emotions

Nota atribuída: L2A Exam - Lessons/Videos

Nota atribuída: L2B Exam - Reading and External Video

SEMANA 3

What does a plant feel?

Not only humans do have emotions. Other mammals have also them. And even insects. But do plants have emotions? Even bacteria, a so small entity, have also these emotional mechanisms. An evolutionary reconstruction will understand to understand how emotions are spread among living entities.

5 videos, 1 leituras

Reading: Week 3 Overview
Vídeo: Animal emotion
Vídeo: The qualia problem
Vídeo: Conscious vs Unconscious emotions
Vídeo: Ghost and chronic emotions

Nota atribuída: L3A Exam - Lessons/Videos

Nota atribuída: L3B Exam - Reading and External Video

SEMANA 4

A neuroanthropological approach to emotions: from neurons to societies

Emotions regulate several key aspects of our life. But they are fundamental for social cohesion. Cooperation or altruism are fundamental aspects of human socialization that must be understood from an emotional perspective. Neurons will show the path to the creation of societies.

5 videos, 1 leituras

Reading: Week 4 Overview
Vídeo: Emotions without brains?
Vídeo: Emotions, empathy and ethics: neuroethical challenges
Vídeo: The moral control of the emotional mind
Vídeo: The social management of emotions

Nota atribuída: L4A Exam - Lessons/Videos

Nota atribuída: L4B Exam - Reading and External Video

SEMANA 5

The philosophies on emotions

There are plenty of historical debates on the nature and role of emotions into philosophical spaces. Usually, this approach is made studying at Western thinkers, but we will also include Eastern ones. Therefore, we will analyse how most important philosophical traditions have understood and explain the role of emotions. [Spoiler: they always said they were BAD!].

5 videos, 1 leituras

Reading: Week 5 Overview
Vídeo: The classic Eastern debates on the nature of emotions
Vídeo: The methodological debates on emotions across history
Vídeo: The transdisciplinarity of emotional studies: an epistemological gap
Vídeo: Damasio’s success and Descartes’s error, the new fashion (or trend?)

Nota atribuída: L5A Exam - Lessons/Videos

Nota atribuída: L5B Exam - Reading and External Video

SEMANA 6

21st Century & emotions: affective computing and sociable robots

At the end of this course we will look on how emotions are displayed into new technological frameworks: social networks, mass media,…but we will think about how emotions are implemented into robots or computers. A new technological era come to us, with the same necessities of all previous ones: emotional. Machines will be emotional, if we want they be really smart, autonomous, and efficient.

5 videos, 1 leituras

Reading: Week 6 Overview
Vídeo: Emotional Architectures
Vídeo: Affective computing
Vídeo: Social robotics and HRI
Vídeo: Emotional machines and singularity?

Nota atribuída: L6A Exam - Lessons/Videos

Nota atribuída: L6B Exam - Reading and External Video

Nota atribuída: Get the distinction

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Classificações e avaliações

Avaliado em 4.2 de 5 decorrente de 168 avaliações

it is very easy

Its a great course that explains how our environment and the language we speak effect how we feel/express the emotions and how they play a major role in our cognitive tasks and also how the states of emotion are integrated part in brains cognitive functioning.Good intro to know how techniques like reinforcement learning are used also nice article on how our brains process and store information based on the idea of convolutions.