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What is an emotion and why do we have them? Some definitions
The ABC of emotional processes
Why do emotions exist and how many living entities have emotions?
How did emotions evolve?
Where do emotions happen?
Week 1 Overview
L1A Exam - Lessons/Videos
L1B Exam - Reading

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Protoemotions the Holy Grail of protostudies
A taxonomy of emotions
The geography of emotions: Guilt vs Shame cultures
Aware: attention data selection and the aesthetical feeling of ahness
L2.5. No pain no gain? The modulatory nature of emotions
Week 2 Overview
L2A Exam - Lessons/Videos
L2B Exam - Reading and External Video

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From nonsense to sense? A bacterial dilemma
Animal emotion
The qualia problem
Conscious vs Unconscious emotions
Ghost and chronic emotions
Week 3 Overview
L3A Exam - Lessons/Videos
L3B Exam - Reading and External Video

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Unemotional neurons but emotional brains
Emotions without brains?
Emotions empathy and ethics: neuroethical challenges
The moral control of the emotional mind
The social management of emotions
Week 4 Overview
L4A Exam - Lessons/Videos
L4B Exam - Reading and External Video

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The classic Western debates on the nature of emotions
The classic Eastern debates on the nature of emotions
The methodological debates on emotions across history
The transdisciplinarity of emotional studies: an epistemological gap
Damasio’s success and Descartes’s error the new fashion (or trend?)
Week 5 Overview
L5A Exam - Lessons/Videos
L5B Exam - Reading and External Video

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Neural Nets
Emotional Architectures
Affective computing
Social robotics and HRI
Emotional machines and singularity?
Week 6 Overview
L6A Exam - Lessons/Videos
L6B Exam - Reading and External Video
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Emotions: a Philosophical Introduction

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