114年第1學期-3384 Honors: Making Sense: On How Meaning Works 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
attendance and participation	50
regular assignments and activities	50

教育目標

One of the core distinctive characteristics of human beings is our capacity to make meaning using symbols. The purpose of this course is lead students to explore why this matters to our understanding of what makes us human and to ask and address a family of questions this involves: What moves us to laugh at a joke or brings us to tears at a movie? How is it possible that sounds or marks can convey full thoughts from one mind to another? What happens so that infants can grow from perceiving their environment to experiencing a world? What is the difference between how a sentence can convey meaning and how a painting can? In this course, we put this human capacity to “make sense” under a microscope and explore important ideas developed to explain it. We trace the impact of some of these ideas, eventually showing how one old idea about meaning was recently rediscovered and applied to computers. The result was Generative AIs like ChatGPT. What was this old idea? Does it show that machines can mean? We will think through questions like these together.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：四/3,4[PG103]
修課班級：共選修1-4
修課年級：1年級以上
選課備註：國際博雅榮譽學分學程課程。人工加選。

參考書目

To be provided by instructor