You think philosophy might contribute to the understanding of religion?
Personally i believe philosophy has a lot of contribution when it comes to the understanding of religion. I believe in God, my family is somewhat religious. Philosophy has helped me to understand different kinds of religion other than catholic christian, their beliefs and there tradition. Its confusing that we have all these different kinds of religion but we only try to understand who is the creator of everything. Then we have all these philosophers and their beliefs or their thoughts and arguments of what they believe in, and people actually follow them and support to what they believe in.
Yes, i believe that philosophy has a great influence in religion, it helped alot in a form of making people accept what they believe.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Functionalism & artificial inteligence...
Some philosophers, including John Searle, say that computers are not really intelligent. Rather, they just stimulate intelligence. However it could be argued that, just as computers are programmed to respond in different ways to different commands, so human beings are 'programmed' by society, an education to perform certain tasks. For example, we are programmed to do complicated things like speak a language, as well as more somple things like brush our teeth.
What are your thoughts on this compassion? Is there any difference between the programming computers, and the 'programming' of humans by society?
Computers are made by humans, its program is designed by humans, its generator that provides its service is also made by humans. I agree to computers' stimulate intelligence, as we based our processors to what and how we want our computers would run, the speed, the commands, the applications and everything is acquired in its mother board and stilmualted by its own "brain" or what we called processor.
Considering with this argument, i would say that there is not much difference between us, humans and the computers. Indeed we are programmed by society, we educate ourselves, we present ourselves to the knowledge that we accomplished or acknowledge. We study and we learn, by that process we gain more intelligence within ourselves. And same thing as the computers, we program their input and they process it. We can be the same based on experiences and knowledge, but the only difference that i can see it the emotions and feelings that we, humans have. Artificial intelligence can't process emotions, not unless you imply that inout in them.
The movie Bicentennial man, personally i loved that movie. It has a great example of an artificial intelligence acquring an emotions within itself. Since he's with the family over centuries, he actually acquired the feeling of lonely, sadness and the need to find its own self. Another very good example of a movie where computers manipulating humans is the movie, I Robot. The main computer of the company is the one who controls everything and even led her creator to kill himself.
In our generations up to date, we have a lot of things going on, politics, war, inventions, superstars, high-end technologies. Everything is through online, i think humans are the only ones who's capable to manipulate computers to its extent.
What are your thoughts on this compassion? Is there any difference between the programming computers, and the 'programming' of humans by society?
Computers are made by humans, its program is designed by humans, its generator that provides its service is also made by humans. I agree to computers' stimulate intelligence, as we based our processors to what and how we want our computers would run, the speed, the commands, the applications and everything is acquired in its mother board and stilmualted by its own "brain" or what we called processor.
Considering with this argument, i would say that there is not much difference between us, humans and the computers. Indeed we are programmed by society, we educate ourselves, we present ourselves to the knowledge that we accomplished or acknowledge. We study and we learn, by that process we gain more intelligence within ourselves. And same thing as the computers, we program their input and they process it. We can be the same based on experiences and knowledge, but the only difference that i can see it the emotions and feelings that we, humans have. Artificial intelligence can't process emotions, not unless you imply that inout in them.
The movie Bicentennial man, personally i loved that movie. It has a great example of an artificial intelligence acquring an emotions within itself. Since he's with the family over centuries, he actually acquired the feeling of lonely, sadness and the need to find its own self. Another very good example of a movie where computers manipulating humans is the movie, I Robot. The main computer of the company is the one who controls everything and even led her creator to kill himself.
In our generations up to date, we have a lot of things going on, politics, war, inventions, superstars, high-end technologies. Everything is through online, i think humans are the only ones who's capable to manipulate computers to its extent.
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Dualism & Physicalism...
Should we, as human beings, think of ourselves as made out of two different substances, like Decartes argued? Or are you persuaded by the arguments of physicalism that we are purely physical beings? If you agree with Descartes, how would you explain the fact that our mental life seems to be very closely connected to a physical organ, namely the brain. If you agree with physicalism, how do you explain the fact that our mental life seems to be like nothing else in the physical world (think of how unique something like consciousness is, for example). Write your thoughts on these issues. Between physical and mental qualities, theres always a direct contact to where our actions are coming from. Descartes was the first to identify the mind with consiousness and self-awareness and to distinguish this from the brain. Within the things we do we have actions that just done by our own mind, its like the brain is working on its own and then all of a sudden we stop and say "what am i doing?" we have actions that we are aware of, thats our mind and body connected, thats when we actually communicate with our brain, and work together. |
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Pragmatism & Feminism...
Pragmatism and Feminist Epistemology both challenge the view of knowledge as a detached, intellectual activity. Do you think they are right? How do you think we should think about knowledge? Now that we have concluded the section on epistemology, write about what kind of thing you think knowledge is.
Knowledge, its something an individual should have in order to succeed, in order to determine right or wrong, in order to survive. We gain more based on experience, facts and also from our mistakes. Im mutual about how they view knowledge is. It is something we can question it, something we have within ourselves to make us aware of everything going on. It's something we can use to control the way we live.
Knowledge, its something an individual should have in order to succeed, in order to determine right or wrong, in order to survive. We gain more based on experience, facts and also from our mistakes. Im mutual about how they view knowledge is. It is something we can question it, something we have within ourselves to make us aware of everything going on. It's something we can use to control the way we live.
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