a relatively new course in philosophy deals with the internet, fairly interesting.....

On The Internet: by Hubert L. Dreyfus

this book deals with issues such as learning, isolation, nihilsm, fairly interesting but i do not buy it......

mmm nihilism... almost as good as cynical egoism...

i can see it, currently the internet is a wide spread way of interaction for people, like any society i can see where certain mindsets can develop...at some point i can actually see specially trained psychologists online...it's the modern world...science has to catch up to something finally...

I like the online world more than the "real world". just my 2 cents.

such issues addressed dealt with that allow the internet is a source for vasts amount of information, the lack of an actual boddied prescence amounts it to nothing, it simply becomes another source of media......

1) the internet is a mess: although you can search multiple things, it is no different than going to the library

2) although a vast amount of information can be obtained, one learns in a fuller aspect when one learns physically with another

it is not an embodied teleprescence

4) as Kierkegaard said: "the public speher is a detached worl where evryone has an oportunity to have an opinion about everything, without every experiencing such a thing"......the internet greatly increases this

I can agree with this statement. I've taken an internet college course, and did very poorly in it. I eventually dropped the class in favor of retaking it in the future in a classroom environment. Without direct, real-time communication with the instructor, interaction with classmates, and time to question and clarify, the learning environment is severely hampered.