undoubtedly the computer‚ arguably the single most complex device ever created by humanity. The computer is the ultimate tool‚ replacing inanimate objects like typewriters‚ notepads‚ calculators‚ photo-albums‚ televisions‚ books; running complex models of attractors‚ road networks‚ the weather‚ the stock market and the universe; and replicating human bank tellers‚ porters‚ telephone operators‚ pilots‚ teachers‚[4] even doctors [5] and artists.[6] Analogies have been drawn between mind and computer‚ but the
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Can Computers Think? Argument 1: No‚ thinking is too complicated. Even if we someday come to understand all the laws and principles that govern the mind‚ that doesn’t mean that we can duplicate it. Does understanding astrophysics mean that we can build a galaxy? Argument 2: I am not a machine . I’m me.I’m alive. And you’re never going to make a computer that can say that. Argument 3: The essence of humanity isn’t reason or logic or any of the other things that computers can do: it’s intuition
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animals. Some might ask what are some unique characteristics that only humans have. While some people believe that the learning differentiates between humans and animals‚ others think that souls and spirits differentiate humans from animals. In “Strange Creatures”‚ Susan Blackmore talks about the idea of imitation and the way that humanity creates “memes” that are a collection of cognitive units of information. Memes control human thoughts and actions. In Zadie Smith’s essay‚ “Speaking in tongues”
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When we change how we communicate‚ we change who we are. Communication can be used to alter a persona‚ depending on how they carry themselves by the language they use. Language can be easily manipulated by concealment or exaggeration‚ to create an ideal character. Similarly‚ words that wield power have a great effect on the user when used in appropriate contexts. On the other hand‚ those who are limited by language are incapable of modifying their identity. When used to your benefit‚ communication
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In Sherry Turkle’s case study‚ Turkle’s purpose is to inform the audience that technology is widening the gap between connection and conversation. She is an advocate for conversation and she supports her claim that face-to-face conversation is more beneficial than communicating with technology by using research‚ science‚ and first-hand accounts. Turkle also wants us to change how we use technology as a way to communicate because she states the problems associated with it but she also gives specific
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Connecting points for Turkle and Gopnik “What changed? That James story helps supply the key. It was trains and telegrams. The railroad ended isolation‚ and packed the metropolis with people whose work was defined by a complicated network of social obligations. “ (Gopnik 157). | “She confined that she would trade in her boyfriend ‘for a sophisticated Japanese robot’ if the robot would produce what she called “caring environment”… I would be happy to produce the illusion that there is somebody
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How Languages Shape Lives Learning new languages may shape our ways of talking and thinking. Also every language to another has many different ways in how we communicate with other people who speak the language we have learned. In “How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?” Lera Boroditsky explains how a new language can affect the way we are thinking. The new language (second language) is one of the most important things that can change the way of thinking. Most of people who speak more than
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not really imitating humans because they are missing something the most important thing in human society‚ which is sharing emotions. Turkle says “ I am troubled by the idea of seeking intimacy with a machine that has no feelings‚ can have no feelings‚ and is really just a clever collection of “as if” performances‚ behaving as if it cared‚ as if it understood us” (Turkle 267). Robots easily accept any amount of memory and other information that are applied to them by humans. However‚ many people doubt
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Topic: Do language help mould the way we think? If we all spoke the same language‚ would we think in the same way? Discuss the issue using examples‚ details‚ and your personal experiences of English and your native language. Language‚ due to its specific properties‚ is one aspect that makes human beings unique in comparison to other animals and species. Philosophers and linguists’ standard conceive the language as basically a means by which speakers convey the content of their thoughts
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that people change the way they speak based on the people they are with. As we know‚ this fact was clearly outlined in the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ but it does in fact apply to my life too. I often talk differently with different people and hence I would like to put forward my argument on this claim. To look at‚ the issue whether people change their way of talking based on the person they are talking to is quite a debatable one and can be argued equally and vociferously in two ways. One the
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