Kanvinde: Function With Feeling By arZan ⋅ April 7‚ 2010 ⋅ Post a comment Achyut Kanvinde passed away in 2002. He was in his time one of the giants of Indian architecture. As the principal architect of CISR he designed a vast body of institutional work over the decades. Kanvinde studies under Walter Gropius at Harvard in the Functionalist style of design. Himanshu Burte writes an interesting overview of Kanvinde’s work and thought philosophy in this article title “ Function with Feeling ”.
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symbolic interactionism neglects the “big picture.” In other words‚ symbolic interactionists may miss the larger issues of society by focusing too closely on the “trees” rather than the “forest”. The most appealing theoretical perspective to me is functionalism. I like the functionalist approach because I believe that for a society‚ a company‚ or even a family to get along and function well‚ there needs to be cooperation. Working towards the same goal is also a fundamental reason to approach a task with
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Introduction Any discussion of the thinking of University of California-Berkeley professor‚ John R. Searle must include an understanding that a machine has the ability to “think” just because it has been fed the “correct” computer program that he calls “Strong AI” (artificial intelligence). However‚ he points out that “Strong AI” misses the basic point that any software program is simply a framework that designates the ways in which certain symbols are managed. That manipulation cannot be
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Discuss ‘the Chinese room’ argument. In 1980‚ John Searle began a widespread dispute with his paper‚ ‘Minds‚ Brains‚ and Programmes’ (Searle‚ 1980). The paper referred to a thought experiment which argued against the possibility that computers can ever have artificial intelligence (AI); in essence a condemnation that machines will ever be able to think. Searle’s argument was based on two key claims. That; “brains cause minds and syntax doesn’t suffice for semantics” (Searle‚ 1980‚ p.417)
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In the article “Can Computers Think‚” John Searle makes the claim that computers‚ while they can simulate understanding or emotions‚ cannot think in the same way that a human mind can. John Searle objects to what he calls “strong AI‚” the claim that the brain is just one type of hardware that can “run” the program that is essentially the human mind‚ and thus that if computers cannot currently think‚ they will one day be able to. Searle supports his claim on the basis that while computers run entirely
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Structural Fuctionalism The Structural Functionalism looks at society as a whole with small parts that must work together to make society run smoothly. The smaller units are known as institutions‚ these include inequality‚ family‚ education‚ religion‚ politics‚ and the economy. Structural Functionalism assumes that the majority of society shares the same core values and “appropriate” forms of behavior. It looks at how constant patterns of behavior or social structures function to apply society’s
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Functionalism and crime: In this essay I will be talking about the functionalist perspective on crime and deviance and be comparing it with the Marxist view. The main functionalist theories I will be examining are Merton’s strain theory‚ Cohen’s status frustration and Cloward and Ohlin’s three subcultures. Functionalists argue that crime and deviance is useful and necessary in society as they reinforce the consensus of values‚ norms and behaviour of the majority non-deviant population. Functionalists
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Functionalism is referred to as consensus structuralism because it emphasises the central role that agreement between members of a society on morals plays in maintaining social order. It is this moral consensus that creates an equilibrium‚ which is the normal state of society. Durkheim was concerned with the question of how societies maintain internal stability and survive over time. He sought to explain social cohesion and stability through the concept of solidarity. In "primitive" societies it
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Structuralism and Functionalism Cesar De La Riva National University Psychology 426 – History of Psychology Professor Mary Rogers Structuralism and Functionalism The 20th Century has provided people today with the ability to sit down‚ turn on a computer and educate themselves on a historical subject such as psychology‚ up to its present state. Psychology was established as a science‚ structuralism and functionalism emerged as theories to explain how the human mind works. Structuralism was the first
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Is the Brain a Computer? To Searle the definition of computation is “defined syntactically in terms of symbol manipulation.” John Searle uses the Chinese Room as an example of a computerized mind. We have to assume that the man in the room‚ outside from Chinese people‚ does not know any Chinese. But he has a set of rules that can help him communicate with the Chinese outside. When he stirs up a conversation‚ does it really mean that he can understand and write Chinese? Or is it just the mind doing
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