Extra Credit Paper April 23‚ 2013 Moral Machines – Ethics The future of computing and machinery is changing at such an extremely fast pace that we need to invest in the application of ethics to the world of machines. But there are many problems with programming a machine to act ethically. Ethics are simply emotional expressions and machines can’t have emotion. Computers don’t have the practical wisdom that Aristotle thought we use when applying our virtues. What about the ethics of the lesser
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R.Yusuf Akbal 210112409 03.05.2013 Can machines be conscious? Can machines be conscious? Well‚ the answer actually depends on the kind of machines you are talking about. Based on quite a few instances and research work done on this particular topic‚ I think that the machines can indeed be categorized as conscious beings and in the following paragraphs I will be providing a couple of examples in order to support my argument. If we look at the definition of consciousness‚ which implies that ‘one
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story’s renown is based on how he succeeded in explaining the conflict between adults and children and the refusal of growing up by creating a parallel universe called Neverland‚ which mirrors some of the human psychological battles with a series of metaphors‚ in a way that children can enjoy and adults can
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1 Could a machine be conscious? This question is often dismissed as simple by those that would say “yes” in response. The usual claim made by the pro camp is that man is a ‘biological machine’ and is conscious‚ ergo‚ a machine is conscious. If we‚ humans‚ are truly biological machines and we are at the same time conscious then I would agree that yes‚ categorically‚ a machine could be conscious. But is it really that simple? I contend that it is a more difficult problem but not that it is a complicated
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Comments on English Poetic Metaphors ABSTRACT The painters keep the scenery on the drawing board via pigment while the poets create the feeling of grace and depth via metaphors. Metaphor is a commonly-used figure of speech both in English and Chinese poems. With metaphor‚ poems become vivid‚ colourful‚ artistic and moving. The use of metaphors in English poems shows the nature and culture factors are quite influential in literature works. Nowadays‚ metaphor is more and more being concerned
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Mathematics (and logic): computability or recursive functions (later to be developed into Automata Theory). <br> <br>The authors confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be expressed as solutions (values) to formulae). These methods were so called because they could‚ in principle‚ be performed by simple machines (or human-computers or human-calculators‚ to use Turing’s unfortunate phrases). The emphasis was
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Can Machines Think? Draft due: 2/25/13 Final draft due: 3/1/13 Introduction to Philosophy Section 05G Spring 2013 CO In the articles of Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Turing and Minds‚ Brains‚ and Programming by Searle‚ many different arguments are made for and against the claim‚ can machines think? Now just as they did in their articles‚ I will explain what I mean by machine and think. A machine is a mechanical object designed by human beings to assist us in our lives. And when I
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listening to the Time Traveller discuss his theory that time is the fourth dimension. The Time Traveller produces a miniature time machine and makes it disappear into thin air. The next week‚ the guests return‚ to find their host stumble in‚ looking disheveled and tired. They sit down after dinner‚ and the Time Traveller begins his story. The Time Traveller had finally finished work on his time machine‚ and it rocketed him into the future. When the machine stops‚ in the year 802‚701 AD‚ he finds himself
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Introduction "All theories of organisation and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that persuade us to see‚ understand‚ and imagine situations in partial ways. Metaphors create insight. But they also distort. They have strengths. But they also have limitations. In creating ways of seeing‚ they create ways of not seeing. Hence there can be no single theory or metaphor that gives an all-purpose point of view. There can be no ’correct theory ’ for structuring everything we do."
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Man vs. Machine Scientists are able to study the way dogs‚ cats and any other animal thinks and reacts. We are able to understand the methods by which these animals think and live. However we never can be sure if we understand the way they are thinking or if we just know the way they are thinking through our own perspective. No matter how many times we try to put ourselves in the place of an animal we will still be seeing that animals life through the perspective of a humans. If we can never view
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