Blog Assignment #4-Midterm Practice

I plan to talk about prompt #3 Robots and Artificial Intelligence. The question that is being asked is if I agree or disagree that Rachel Eldon and other androids were intelligent human beings according to the graphic novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. The argument that I will prove is why I agree that Rachel Eldon and the other androids were intelligent beings but how they can never gain to have real emotions. I will back this up with the scenes from the graphic novel by discussing Rachel Eldon's questioning. This would prove how Rachel Eldon was programmed to have intellectual thoughts but how her non existing emotions gave her away. Then explain the main scene that gave her away as an Android.  After, go on to compare how different the answers to the questions would of been if a human answered them. How much more emotion would be shown from a human if they were asked these kinds of questions.Then, continuing to talk about how androids would never gain the same emotions that humans have. How they will not be able to feel the same things as humans and can only gain intelligence through programming. Another text that would be added to this part would be Dream Logic,the Internet and Artificial Thought by David Gelernter. I would go to explain Gelernter's view on robots and artificial intelligence. How Gelernter's point was that robots can gain intelligence but can never have true emotions. He makes up two good points from the text and I will include these in my essay. His view on artificial intelligence ties in very well with the thought of robots never gaining emotions. Finally, I will choose one more scene from the graphic novel proving more of my point of why I agree Rachel Eldon and other androids were intelligent beings, but can never have real emotions. Finally, I would wrap up everything I discussed in my essay proving my point of agreement.

Critical Thinking Blog Assignment 3

The two topics that I may possibly discuss is portraying robots in film or women in science: Rosalind Franklin. The reason why I am interested in discussing portraying robots in film is because I feel that it relates to what we have been talking about in our LIB 200 class. By this I mean that I can be able to discuss how the film presentation of future of robotics perspective is on technology. A movie that I am interested in looking at is I,Robot. I feel that this movie will give me a good sense on how robots are presented in the future. I can discuss how the view on robots can be seen later in our future and what kind of influences it will have on us. By picking this choice it will also give me a opportunity to talk about how robots and humans differ. How does the film challenge the understanding of what it means to be human. By viewing this film I can be able to relate it to the topics we have been discussing in class about robots. I can compare their actions now and how they will be later on according to our technology use and how they keep progressing in the movie. The other topic that I thought of discussing is Women in science: Rosalind Franklin. One of the main reasons that I want to discuss this topic is because of the fact that I agree that she should of earned credit for discovering the structure of DNA. I feel that it would be a really cool topic to talk about. I also feel that she should of been recognized with a Nobel Prize. I could just basically talk about the facts of why she deserved to be recognize and her history of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
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After long thinking about my decision,I have come to the conclusion that I will be picking the topic of...portraying robots in film. I feel that this would be a more fun/interesting topic to discuss in my research paper. I also feel that it can provide me with a lot of information. It will be a cool topic to discuss therefore I will enjoy writing it better. I have more background information on the movie and it relates more to what we have been learning in the class.

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