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IGNOU MPYE-13 (December 2025 – June 2026) Assignment Questions
1. Explain and evaluate Limbic System Hyper-activation theory of Religious Experience.
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Discuss the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology.
2. Is it right to manipulate human genes? Discuss some ethical and social issues involved in Human Genome Project.
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What is Chaos Theory? What are the philosophical implications of Chaos theory? Discuss.
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) Explain the idea of democratization of technology.
b) What is the Philosophical presupposition(s) of Fractal Geometry?
c) “Today nature is indistinguishable from culture.” Give your response with appropriate arguments.
d) Write an essay on the Ethical implications of Human Genome Project.
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Write a note on the idea of ‘Absolute Unitary Being’.
b) Why was Euclidean geometry unable to represent the roughness of reality? Explain.
c) Write a note on the idea of Dasein.
d) Critically evaluate the idea of Cultural Dualism.
e) Write a note on the idea of Neuro Culture.
f) What is ‘Turing Machine Approach’? Explain.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Heidegger’s idea of death
b) Absolute Unitary Being
c) The Julia Set
d) Idea of ‘Wholly Other’
e) Cloning
f) Koch Curve
g) Qualia
h) Hyperreal
IGNOU MPYE-13 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. What is Chaos Theory? What are the philosophical implications of Chaos theory? Discuss.
Or
Discuss the social and ethical implications of nanotechnology.
2. What is Artificial Intelligence? Examine functionalist theory of mind in the light of Artificial Intelligence.
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a) Critically evaluate the claim that “Death is an evil.”
b) What are the three problems about death discussed by Thomas Nagel?
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) What is the Philosophical presupposition(s) of Fractal Geometry?
b) Write an essay on the Ethical implications of Human Genome Project.
c) “Today nature is indistinguishable from culture.” Give your response with appropriate arguments.
d) Write a note on the ethical implications of Stem Cell Research.
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Why was Euclidean geometry unable to represent the roughness of reality? Explain.
b) What is ‘Turing Machine Approach’? Explain
c) What is computation model of mind? Discuss.
d) Write a short note on the ethical implications of genetic manipulation.
e) Write a note on the idea of Neuro Culture.
f) Write a note on the idea of ‘Absolute Unitary Being’.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Idea of ‘Wholly Other’
b) Genetic Manipulation
c) Cloning
d) Cultural Dualism
e) Qualia
f) The Julia Set
g) Hyperreal
h) Koch Curve




