Ananica Jeune

LIB 200

Prof. Dragan

05/16/13

                                                          Blog Assignment #5

Androids are robots that are designed to look like humans and also they are made to do jobs that seem to be dangerous to humans. These robots are now used almost all over the world, now only they look like humans, they are also very intelligent. However, I believe that these androids are highly intelligent and are capable of doing a lot of things but I don’t think they will ever have real consciousness as humans.

In the video do androids dream of electric sheep? We can see the various things that Rachael Eldon is able to do; she is smart and very talented. The way she’s being exposed to us and the way she does her things make her look nothing like an android but a human. Rachael Eldon seems intelligent as human because she imitates human intelligence by computer programs not because she has consciousness “as far as we know, there is no way to achieve consciousness on a computer or any collection of computers”. I totally agree with him because the only reason these androids are performing is because of the use of computers, there’s no way we can put consciousness in the computer for them to have consciousness.

“The public doesn’t believe that these androids can never have a human brain and human aspects”. As I mentioned before in one of my previous blogs, some people accept the idea of these androids and some others don’t.  I agree with the public because as humans we all were born with a brain, conscious and different aspects that make us human beings and these androids don’t have these traits.  They might look like us and might be able to do things that we do but they will never be like us.
Overall, I believe that Rachael Eldon and others are intelligent; they can do as much things that a human being can do and even more. But when it comes to consciousness, I don’t think these androids will ever have consciousness as us humans do because consciousness is something we were born with not something that was being created.

Ananica Jeune
LIB 200
Prof. Dragan
05/05/13



                                           Critical Thinking Blog Post # 4

Robots are machines that were created to be helpful to human beings. These machines are highly developed throughout the years due to technology. Robots are used to work in different fields and now with technology they are able to do different tasks. Some people think that robots can do harm to our society and other people think that robots are good use for society. Despites of all of the negative comments about robots, I believe that robots have a great impact on society.

A few decades ago, we have seen the use of robots only in movies, magazines, books but now robots are used everywhere in the world working in different fields such as medical, industrial, business field and many more. Robots that work in the medical field usually work in the surgery rooms; they help adjusting the tools and also help the doctors with the surgeries. The industrial robots do heavy duties; they use them to do things that seem to be dangerous to humans. These robots work faster and get the job done well as ordered. People that work in the business field are now losing their job to robots in some countries in the world.  Checkout staff are being replaced by automatic self-service machines.

As technology develops, they are creating more robots with more significant powers. Some of us find robots acceptable to be part of society and some others don’t. Some of us who robots have been acceptable to think that robots are good help to us because they are certain things that robots are able to do that humans might unable to do. Those of us who don’t accept robots think of robots as a cause of unemployment, thinking that since robots are able to do things that humans can do, one day they would probably replace us.

As we can see robots have been developed a lot throughout the years, every day we experience something new. In the terminator movie, we visualize how powerful robot can be in a human body. The terminator robot is a dangerous robot because these machines once they were given an order they have to accomplish the mission they were given. The terminator was after one person to kill because he was given the order to do so and he wouldn’t stop until he found the person wanted. In the I robot, it was more than one robots and they were all after humans, they were all against us.

In conclusion, although some people might see robots as a harmful creature to society but most of us believe that robots are a powerful invention.

Ananica Jeune
Prof. Dragan
LIB 200
04/22/13

                                                   Critical Thinking- (Blog) Assignment #3

Evolutionary psychology is one of the major fields in psychology that develops a lot throughout the years. “Evolutionary psychology has developed from the years of 1980s; evolutionary psychology's study is based on behavior and mind. Its mission is to analyze and characterize psychological traits of human such as emotions, preferences”. Evolutionary psychology also came from sociobiology which is the study of the biological bases for social behavior in every species.

“Evolutionary psychologists have created hypotheses to determine what psychological traits that have developed in humans; they also draw a parallel between humans and non-humans to see how they behave differently and also how their behaviors are somewhat similar.” This topic interests me because I love to learn about new things and I would like to learn about how the human mind evolved and its fundamental functions and also as I mentioned in the essay, why human behave certain ways and also the theoretical approaches that evolutionary psychologists use to determine the psychological traits of humans.

Another topic that I’m also interested in is portraying robots or human clones in film. From this point of view, I believe that although science has gone too far on doing certain things but also a lot of positive things have been created for the use of human being. Picturing robots in film makes me wondering how robots films are going to look like in the next two decades. Robots can be very useful to humans because of the various things that they can do like working in industries and they also are able to perform on material tools. Since technology has been evolved, robots can also work in fields like agriculture and medical facilities in some countries. The negative part about robots is that since they can do almost everything that a human are able to do, are they going to replace us? The answer is undecided because technology/ science are evolving every day so nobody knows how society is going to be for the upcoming years.

Cloning on the other hand, I think it’s a good process because reproduction is a good aspect in life. “According to my Medical Ethics’ class, there is nothing wrong with cloning as long as people feel like that it’s the right thing to do”. I agree because people are getting sick from all types of disease every day and cloning the person is able to prevent all this so why not doing it. By cloning the person, they get to live longer and they are free from the disease they suffered from. However, I think that cloning is improvement for a new life and also an extinction of life.

These two fields are my two interests because they both talk about technology/ science and also they portray the outlook of how life is going to be in the future as we go along but my topic will be about robots and human cloning in films.