The following link leads to the inspiration for this talk, an upper-level Comparative Literature course that I taught at U. C. Berkeley. It was a summer course, so I had to make it lively.
PHYSICS, METAPHYSICS, AND MYTHOLOGY
Polish up your classical mythology while at the same time sampling the mythology of the emerging millennium. What do the X-Files, science fiction, and the tabloids take from the fringe beliefs and conspiracy theories disseminated over the Internet? How are traditional beliefs reflected in the paranoia, conspiracies, and weird sciences of the www? What is fiction? Are science, mythology, and religion things our species of primates does with consciousness?
(From Cerberus to Cyberpunk)
The following links leads to an improved version of the original PowerPoint slide show I used during the presentation.
