Critical Thinking Blog Post #6 - Sharing and Reflecting on Two Sources

                    The topic of my research paper is about human cloning and how it violates ethical views as well how technology is not advance enough to be safe to use on humans. I will be analyzing the movie Never Let Me Go and how it portrays human cloning.

Source #1: 

                 

                  The title of this source is "Could Never Let Me Go Give Human Clones a Good Name?" and the author is John Patterson. I found this source by LexisNexis. This is relevant to my research because it’s a movie review on the film Never Let Me Go.  The author argues that this film done a good job on showing clones can have soul and actually be like human beings. This information adds to my paper because I agree that human clones are just like human beings because they get to feel and have experiences. I choose this source because it clarifies more about how human cloning violates ethical views. 

Source #2:

                

                   The title of this source is “Human Reproductive Cloning: A Conflict Of Liberties” and the author is Joyce C. Havstad. I found this source by academic search complete. This source provides that human cloning can have crisis of identity and not the freedom of self-determination. The author also points out that this can lead to psychological harm. Havstad also believes that human cloning should happen unless ethical views aren’t violated. This information provides more evidence on my paper because of the ethical views Havstad is pointing out.

                     

Critical Thinking Blog Post #5 - The Promise and Peril of Robots in Film, TV and Real life: Friends or Foes?

               

                Every movie that portrays robots or artificial intelligence differently as in some movies could be fictional than realistic. For example, some movies can express robots fictional by showing them more as humans. The movie iRobot shows on how the robots walk like us and put to work in labor just as how humans used to work. These iRobot have fingers and hands that move like humans. If these robots had skin on them, then they will definitely pass by as humans because the know how to movie like humans. This movie proves Ray Kurzweil and Philip K. Dick theory on how artificial intelligence can overpower humans and take over. An army of iRobot formed; some turn against the humans. They try to fight back because they don’t feel free.  This movie doesn’t proves David Gelernter theory on how artificial intelligence can’t show emotions by facial expressions. The artificial intelligence can movie their fingers, and can make facial expressions by showing a smile or show when they are angry. This makes the robots be fictional because I think robots can’t move that much because they are made out of metal.

                The Terminator is more sort of a realistic fiction movie because it proves the theories of Ray Kurzweil, Philip K. Dick and David Gelernter. The Terminator does out smart humans because they can do things that human can’t and are human in the outside but mainly more machine. The only human characteristic the Terminator has is the skin of a human but the rest is made of wires and computer. The Terminator doesn’t have emotions or show facial expressions or even have memories but information. The Terminator is something more possible to create in the future because machines are made of metal and metal doesn’t move that. It be easy to if it’s an machine or not by seeing how smart it is.

Critical Thinking Blog Post #4 - Midterm Practice

               I disagree that Rachel Eldon and other android were intelligent beings and doesn’t have a real consciousness like a human because artificial intelligence can’t experience to create memories in order to feel emotions. When robots come to mind, I think of bunches of wires and programs codes. After reading “Dream-Logic, the Internet and Artificial Thought,” it explains on how many ways an artificial intelligence can’t be a human due to the fact that their conscious mind is all program. Artificial intelligence can be smarter but not have a mind like a human. David Gelernter discusses on how artificial intelligence can’t have feelings or feel how something is. For example if a human touches fire, automatically it will hurt but an artificial intelligence won’t feel anything and would not take away the hand.  Another reason is that an artificial intelligence won’t feel how something is soft or warm. The machines could take an ice cube and feel anything of the material unlike humans; they will soon realize the ice cube is cold.

                 A word that David Gelernter described how artificial intelligence are, is that the machines are similar to zombies. This demonstrated that machines will show no expressions. For humans, each feeling comes with an expression. When someone feels sad, the face expression is a crying face or when someone feels embarrass, their face will turn all red. Artificial intelligence are machines that can’t change their faces in order to create an facial expression. They can say that they are happy but it won’t show on their face. Gelernter also mention that Artificial Intelligence can’t have experiences or revisit an experience. When someone revisit an experience, old feelings will come back and feel like living in that moment. Machines are program and know only information rather than to create memories. Someone has to put in information to the machines. David Gelernter made great arguments to believe that Artificial Intelligence can’t completely pass by like humans.