Melissa Burton: Blog on 9-15 & 9-17 are N/A (no post)
Melissa Paulo: Blog on 9-15 & 9-17 are N/A (no post)
Monique Perez: With so many amazing artwork that Frida Kahlo have painted in her life time it was hard to pick one that I wanted to write about. I found it really interesting that you picked Frida Kahlo's painting of "Self Image of her between Mexico and the U.S." This painting is amazing, it reveals the life style in Mexico and in the United States. Your right her pink dress is one of the first things that grabs your attention. You believe that the painting reveals that Kahlo would rather live in Mexico than the United States because shes holding Mexico's flag; do you think she was unhappy here in the United States? If it wasn't for Rivera would Kahlo still be living in Mexico than? Though Kahlo moved to the United States she did not forget about her Mexican heritage from where she came from and their cultural beliefs in their ceremony that honors the dead. That's great that you were able to have a connection with this painting. Yes even though with our ups and down in this country I too have pride for our country.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Descriptive
If you scroll from top to bottom on this painting, you notice the spacious blue sky at the very top of the painting. As you scroll down the next thing that notice is the rigid landscape and the crackling on the earth's crust that somewhat tells you that this land have no receive any rainfall in a while. The next thing that will pop out at you is a women laying down with branches coming out of her. As you scroll down further, you will notice that the leaves from these branches appear to have roots. The plant is rooted into the earth.
Now, let's look at it from a different view point. Starting from the left, you will notice one leaf above her head and then you emotionless facial expression. She has straight long black hair. One other thing that might catch your eyes is the unibrow in a "V" shape. As you scroll more to the right, you can see that the starting point of all the plants are coming from the heart. Yes, it is her left arm that is up resting on her hip. The further you right you scroll, the more you will notice that her feet is not in the painting and her long flowing yellow dress with white flairs at the end rooting you something similar to you a rock.
This painting by Frida Kahlo named "Roots" is quite interesting. A emotionless woman laying out in the open desert that have not seen any rain in quite sometime. But the blue open sky says, there is light from above. It could be representing the heaven sky. But one of the things that I reacted to is the beginning of the plants. It came from the heart. To me, it says that she is one with the earth and her is blessed by this planet. The more I look at this painting, the stranger it gets.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Wright Summary
In Robert Wright's article "Can Machines Think? Maybe So, as Deep Blue's Chess Prowess Suggests", the author thesis is about conciousness. Wright compared the difference between a human's mind and a machine. The subject of consciousness that Wright chose to speak of is mind-blogging. It is a subject that can be viewed through different point of views.
Wright's focus was on the function of a machine and the human mind. One of the example he chose to write about was the man vs machine (Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue in a chess game). A game of chess is a game that requires a lot of thinking and strategies. The mass amount of thinking is believe to be affiliated with consciousness. But at the same time, a game of chess has endless options and strategies and therefore a computer can only calculate the best possible move. With that being said, a computer can not freely think and therefore doesn't have consciousness. Wright also took other philosphers' view as part of his discussion of consciousness. One of the things that jumped out at me was the idea of a machine having human emotions. A machine can't feel pain, love or pleasure. And I can't say that it is able to calculate the amount of each emotion also.
In conclusion, I do not believe that machine have consciousness because the can not mimic human emotions. "...consciousness-the existence of pleasure and pain, love and grief..." (pg. 144) With this definition of consciousness, a machine that can not mimic these emotions can not be consider to be conscious. After all, machine can only calculate numbers and put those numbers is strategies. It can't pass the Turing test because it does not know any common sense.
Wright's focus was on the function of a machine and the human mind. One of the example he chose to write about was the man vs machine (Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue in a chess game). A game of chess is a game that requires a lot of thinking and strategies. The mass amount of thinking is believe to be affiliated with consciousness. But at the same time, a game of chess has endless options and strategies and therefore a computer can only calculate the best possible move. With that being said, a computer can not freely think and therefore doesn't have consciousness. Wright also took other philosphers' view as part of his discussion of consciousness. One of the things that jumped out at me was the idea of a machine having human emotions. A machine can't feel pain, love or pleasure. And I can't say that it is able to calculate the amount of each emotion also.
In conclusion, I do not believe that machine have consciousness because the can not mimic human emotions. "...consciousness-the existence of pleasure and pain, love and grief..." (pg. 144) With this definition of consciousness, a machine that can not mimic these emotions can not be consider to be conscious. After all, machine can only calculate numbers and put those numbers is strategies. It can't pass the Turing test because it does not know any common sense.
Week 3 Blog Reviews
Melissa Burton-
In your posting for "What is thoughts or ideas" I really liked how you defined them in your own view but also included the actual definition according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Why do you think thoughts became ideas? How did ideas turned into projects? Elaborate more on it. You interpret the meaning very well. Way the go for the examples, that's always a good insight for people to see.
I definitely agree with you, I believe that machinery can't replace the feeling that a human being posses nor can it give the love that a human being have to offer. Its different, I'm sure many scientists are trying to achieve the goal of building a machinery that has our six senses but could it really replace us? Something is bound to go wrong. I see more and more movies are being produced about robots. One movie in particular that I wrote a blog last week about is called "I, Robot." They tried creating a world of robots to make us feel protected. Robots were the ones who can help us do our daily chores and protect us from danger. It is scary to believe that we can control them when they have a mind of their own. I hope we will never live in a world of robots.
Melissa Paulo- N/A, there was no post for 9/8 and 9/10.
Monique Perez-
I think your right that computers can process things faster than a human can. They are much smarter than us and your right it shouldn't be the way life should be lived. How exciting, we both used "I, Robot" as an example of Robots gone good or bad. I haven't saw that movie since it first came out until recently it was aired on FX. I can see you what you mean when you don't want technology to be that advanced to have a mind of its own. I can not live in a world like that. I think I would be too frightened to be overruled by robots when it would be the humans creating them. Here is a quote off of your blog, "Humans are inquisitive and creative, besides electric signals it is just the way humans were created, it’s a superior gift." I really liked how described us human being. You made us human very unique, which I'm sure a lot of people don't realize it.
In your posting for "What is thoughts or ideas" I really liked how you defined them in your own view but also included the actual definition according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Why do you think thoughts became ideas? How did ideas turned into projects? Elaborate more on it. You interpret the meaning very well. Way the go for the examples, that's always a good insight for people to see.
I definitely agree with you, I believe that machinery can't replace the feeling that a human being posses nor can it give the love that a human being have to offer. Its different, I'm sure many scientists are trying to achieve the goal of building a machinery that has our six senses but could it really replace us? Something is bound to go wrong. I see more and more movies are being produced about robots. One movie in particular that I wrote a blog last week about is called "I, Robot." They tried creating a world of robots to make us feel protected. Robots were the ones who can help us do our daily chores and protect us from danger. It is scary to believe that we can control them when they have a mind of their own. I hope we will never live in a world of robots.
Melissa Paulo- N/A, there was no post for 9/8 and 9/10.
Monique Perez-
I think your right that computers can process things faster than a human can. They are much smarter than us and your right it shouldn't be the way life should be lived. How exciting, we both used "I, Robot" as an example of Robots gone good or bad. I haven't saw that movie since it first came out until recently it was aired on FX. I can see you what you mean when you don't want technology to be that advanced to have a mind of its own. I can not live in a world like that. I think I would be too frightened to be overruled by robots when it would be the humans creating them. Here is a quote off of your blog, "Humans are inquisitive and creative, besides electric signals it is just the way humans were created, it’s a superior gift." I really liked how described us human being. You made us human very unique, which I'm sure a lot of people don't realize it.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
I-Robot
After reading this article on artificial intelligence, it reminded me of I-Robot. It scares me to image a world of that nature but at times, I do wish for robots. How easy would it be for us college students to have something like that. Someone to do our laundry, clean our room and run errands for us. More time for us to concentrate on studying and homework. What a world that would be? However, life isn't there yet.
As for the questions at the end of the article. Computer-based neural network learn and adapt by analyzing the "scene, the objects in view and their relationships would trigger iconic representations which could be used to "output" language that describes the scene." (Davidson, 118) According to this statement, a robots analyze a scene and then if the scenery triggers an action, then the robot would obey the laws that it is programed to do so. This is what is really scary about the whole robot thing. If you can remember the scene from the movie I-Robot, when the main character played by Will Smith talks about his past and how a robot chose to save him over a child because of its analytically thinking. He had a higher chance of surviving than a child that was also drowning. He was upset because a person who chose to rescue a child over an adult because she has more life to live.
Even though this is something you can image getting upset over but at the same time, the is more that a robot can offer. Some has the ability to solve complex mathematically problems. But is math the most complex problems that we as human are challenged by. I think there are more things that we as human are challenged by. I don't believe that a robot can solve a complex conscious problem. We can program it to obey certain laws but what if the laws conflicts with an law. How would a robot react to that. It is hard to say but I know as a human, religion would play in the decision making.
As for the questions at the end of the article. Computer-based neural network learn and adapt by analyzing the "scene, the objects in view and their relationships would trigger iconic representations which could be used to "output" language that describes the scene." (Davidson, 118) According to this statement, a robots analyze a scene and then if the scenery triggers an action, then the robot would obey the laws that it is programed to do so. This is what is really scary about the whole robot thing. If you can remember the scene from the movie I-Robot, when the main character played by Will Smith talks about his past and how a robot chose to save him over a child because of its analytically thinking. He had a higher chance of surviving than a child that was also drowning. He was upset because a person who chose to rescue a child over an adult because she has more life to live.
Even though this is something you can image getting upset over but at the same time, the is more that a robot can offer. Some has the ability to solve complex mathematically problems. But is math the most complex problems that we as human are challenged by. I think there are more things that we as human are challenged by. I don't believe that a robot can solve a complex conscious problem. We can program it to obey certain laws but what if the laws conflicts with an law. How would a robot react to that. It is hard to say but I know as a human, religion would play in the decision making.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Right or Wrong
Wow, this is a bit confusing. I don't even know where to start. But I chose the class discussion of page 109 and hopefully I can explain my point to view to the rest of the group.
From a scientific point of view, I understand how the authors use biology to explain consciousness. It is the cells of the body that allows memories to occur. The authors talked about how the mind can remember a face by firing neuron cells. It stated that the “neurons help the brain represent the face …” To me, this means that neurons enable us to memory faces but understand the different angle and depth of the curve of everyone’s face. Okay, our cells allow us to remember things but this does not fully explain how consciousness
There is a more to human’s consciousness then remembering. Yes, we remember the lessons learned from mistakes made but is memories the only thing that human’s consciousness is all about. If there is something that we have not learned from previous experience how do we decide what’s right from wrong. Some might use faith to explain their decision. If this was the case, then how do we explain this biologically? It is impossible to explain human consciousness. Yes, conscious does associate with the brain but there are things that can’t be explained biologically.
From a scientific point of view, I understand how the authors use biology to explain consciousness. It is the cells of the body that allows memories to occur. The authors talked about how the mind can remember a face by firing neuron cells. It stated that the “neurons help the brain represent the face …” To me, this means that neurons enable us to memory faces but understand the different angle and depth of the curve of everyone’s face. Okay, our cells allow us to remember things but this does not fully explain how consciousness
There is a more to human’s consciousness then remembering. Yes, we remember the lessons learned from mistakes made but is memories the only thing that human’s consciousness is all about. If there is something that we have not learned from previous experience how do we decide what’s right from wrong. Some might use faith to explain their decision. If this was the case, then how do we explain this biologically? It is impossible to explain human consciousness. Yes, conscious does associate with the brain but there are things that can’t be explained biologically.
Week 2- Blog Reviews
Melissa Burton: Hi Melissa I enjoyed reading your 9/01 blog, its great that your continuing on going to school and not giving up. Getting an education is the to success. I agree with you when you talk about how people do judge each other when working in a class environment. First impression usually sets it off whether or not you want to work with that person in a group project or getting to know them. With this online class it does eliminate our face to face interaction with them but it does allow us to blog whatever we want while staying on task for our weekly assignment. That's cool that you took a class with other students out of the country. How was that like? What class was it for?
I liked your response for "Can we be good with God." I totally agree that the answer to that question can have a number of responses. It is up to the person wheter he or she wants to be good for either themselves or believing that it'll lead to a good path in god's hand. We have the ability to believe whatever we want ourselves to believe if we set our minds to it. Their are a large number of different religions to follow and to believe we just have to choose one and go on from there.
Melissa Paulo: Blog on 9-01 & 9-3 are N/A (no post)
Monique Perez: In your The Individual Sel "SELF" blog I know what you are talking about when a person can go a whole semester in a classroom and physically not say a word to anyone. I've seen it sometimes I forget that they are there because he/she has been so quiet the whole entire semester. You are right it doesn't make him/her a bad person because they don't relate themselves to you or anyone in the class. Maybe the find the traditional classroom as a place to concentrate on classwork as well as lecture rather than socializing.
Good without a God blog- When you said "I wouldn’t change anything I’ve learned because I truly believe those teachings, beliefs and morals have shaped who I am today" I was able to relate to you. I wouldn't change anything I learned either. It's a religion that my family truly believes and follow. Everything that I've learned has a purpose and may or may not have served its role already. Your there's no such thing as a perfect person. Making mistakes makes us a better person by learning from it.
I liked your response for "Can we be good with God." I totally agree that the answer to that question can have a number of responses. It is up to the person wheter he or she wants to be good for either themselves or believing that it'll lead to a good path in god's hand. We have the ability to believe whatever we want ourselves to believe if we set our minds to it. Their are a large number of different religions to follow and to believe we just have to choose one and go on from there.
Melissa Paulo: Blog on 9-01 & 9-3 are N/A (no post)
Monique Perez: In your The Individual Sel "SELF" blog I know what you are talking about when a person can go a whole semester in a classroom and physically not say a word to anyone. I've seen it sometimes I forget that they are there because he/she has been so quiet the whole entire semester. You are right it doesn't make him/her a bad person because they don't relate themselves to you or anyone in the class. Maybe the find the traditional classroom as a place to concentrate on classwork as well as lecture rather than socializing.
Good without a God blog- When you said "I wouldn’t change anything I’ve learned because I truly believe those teachings, beliefs and morals have shaped who I am today" I was able to relate to you. I wouldn't change anything I learned either. It's a religion that my family truly believes and follow. Everything that I've learned has a purpose and may or may not have served its role already. Your there's no such thing as a perfect person. Making mistakes makes us a better person by learning from it.
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