ANTH 383 — Anthropology of Consciousness

Explores how different cultures conceptualize and experience consciousness, for example in emerging debates around topics such as artificial intelligence, therapeutic relationships with AI systems, and neuroscientific advances in understanding dreaming or altered states. Addresses fundamental questions about what constitutes being human amid rapidly evolving technologies that challenge traditional boundaries between human and non-human cognition.

• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Department: Anthropology
• Prerequisite: Permission of instructor