Robot in Society: Friend or Appliance? Massachusetts Institute of Technology Arti_cial Intelligence Laboratory 545 Technology Square‚ Room 938 Cambridge‚ MA 02139 USA email: cynthia@ai.mit.edu Abstract This paper discusses the role that synthetic emotions could play in building autonomous robots which engage people in human-style social exchange. We present a control architecture which integrates synthetic emotions and highlight how they influence the internal dynamics of the robot ’s
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Philosophy One of the criticisms of dualism is difficulty of giving an account of the unity of the mind. Mental states are characterized by two main properties. The first one is subjectivity that is known as privileged access‚ and the second one is intentionality. Physical objects and their properties are sometimes observable and sometimes not‚ but any physical object is equally available for everyone to see. We can all observe the physical things but mental states are only available to the person of his
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Hip Hop has had an inundating influence on the black community in America‚ as well as society holistically. Hip Hop is more than music‚ Hip Hop is a culture. Over the past three decades‚ Hip Hop has influenced and uplifted America‚ verbalizing up for generations and providing a voice to a group of people endeavoring to distribute a message. However Hip Hop does have some major imperfections. The relationship between rap music and women has always been a tricky one to digest. Although misogyny and
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Environmental Racism in Los Angeles and its Formation The siting of a $500 million railyard project backed by BNSF Railroad Company‚ which recently won the approval from Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners and Los Angeles City Council‚ has been a highly debated issue in Long Beach‚ Los Angeles. According to a report from Pacific Swell‚ ‘The BNSF railway’s project would serve as a transfer point between the harbor complex and rail. Short-haul trucks would travel four miles up the freeway to move
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The way the creation narrative is structured and tightly organized speaks to the intentionality with which Yahweh Elohim created. If God did not intend to make humans He would not have even began to create the earth. Everything Yahweh Elohim created was intended to support humanity which reveals God’s purpose from the very beginning. The
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Ministry Reflection Paper In the sixth chapter of his book entitled‚ The Word That Redescribes the World‚ Walter Brueggemann expresses a theological motif of evangelism and discipleship. Three main points buttress Brueggemann’s motif. In brief‚ he affirms the God of the Biblical faith intends for the world‚ under His effective rule‚ to be free from evil powers. As God seeks to rebuild His kingdom through obedient servants it requires the subversion of these evil powers. God calling and sending
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Interpretative plus Idiographic not nomothetic Phenomenology ‘Going back to the things themselves’ (Edmund Husserl) Reflexive turn inwards away from the objects in the world and towards our perception of those objects however intentionality links perceiver with perceived Different phenomenologies 1. Idiographic Detailed analysis of elements of the reflected personal experience- the subjective experience of the social world. IPA does this (or at least attempts to) 2. Eidetic
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1. Definition Personality: A Psychological Interpretation: Allport’s first book; devoted an entire chapter to a review of the many different notions of personality offered by theologians‚ philosophers‚ poets‚ sociologists‚ and psychologists‚ and concluded that an adequate synthesis of existing definitions might be expressed in the phrase "what a man really is" ? Allport defines personality as the “the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique
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Watson’s theory of human caring and subjective living experiences... - 129 - WATSON’S THEORY OF HUMAN CARING AND SUBJECTIVE LIVING EXPERIENCES: CARATIVE FACTORS/CARITAS PROCESSES AS A DISCIPLINARY GUIDE TO THE PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE1 A TEORIA DO CUIDADO HUMANO DE WATSON E AS EXPERIÊNCIAS SUBJETIVAS DE VIDA: FATORES CARITATIVOS/CARITAS PROCESSES COMO UM GUIA DISCIPLINAR PARA A PRÁTICA PROFISSIONAL DE ENFERMAGEM LA TEORÍA DEL CUIDADO HUMANO DE WATSON Y LAS EXPERIENCIAS SUBJETIVAS
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actions can be started or stopped by the employee himself and their resources are conducted in specific parts of the brain and nerve pathways that in most cases differ of the paths that are the result of involuntary actions. John Searle in the book Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind (1983) introduces the distinction between the previous intent and purpose contained in the action. He states that the thoughts we have at the time we do some action warn us of the fact that we are the cause
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