...Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………...3 Global Development………………………………………………………………..4 Technology in the 21st Century……………………………………………..4 Intelligence in the 21st Century……………………………………………..5 Artificial Intelligence and Modern Society……………………………………….....6 Advancements in Technology………………………………………………..7 Advancements in Human Education and Growth…………………………..8 Technology and its Role in Developing Human Minds…………………………..…9 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………...10 References…………………………………………………………………………....11 Introduction During the onset of what has been dubbed the Digital Age, a debate has arisen over the ethical and developmental implications of technology and the dependence of the human world on Artificial Intelligence. This paper serves as an added voice to the debate of Artificial Intelligence versus the Human Mind. The fundamental question being addressed is that of whether the rapid technological advancements that have and are still being made are stifling the growth of human innovation. The realization that technology is increasingly becoming a huge facet in the day to day lives of billions of people around the globe makes it ever more necessary to evaluate how dependent the world will be on it in the near future. For example, technology is used to determine weather patterns, determining the direction the global economy is taking and so forth. So it is pertinent for an evaluation...
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...affairs threatened the stability of the Republic. He urged Americans to subordinate sectional jealousies to common national interests. George Washington wrote a farewell speech in 1769, marking the end of his leadership of the United States of America.This speech was originally intended to be read at the end of his first term tells us how he wanted to retire four years earlier, but how he had been begged to stay. He states how he never considered himself as being worthy enough oto lead a country, and then goes on and gives his thoughts and opinions about many issues in the government. looking at the way he had led the country for the previous eight years. George washington was a great man always with the country's best interest at heart and mind and he only gave his honest opinion regarding many subjects such as, the importance of national union and the constitution. He also spoke of the evils and dangers of the political parties and debt, and stressed the importance of religion and morality of our government. No man left a more dignified farewell. Many people fought and died to make this country a nation. George washington was right in the middle of that, and he pressed the importance of unity in a nation and warns against anybody dividing it. This country is one country, not the east or the west, the north or the south. Eeverybody needs each other and if it is all divided it cannot accomplish what it could as whole nation. Seperation and dividion would only bring arguments...
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...Darkness inside Human Mind Joseph Conrad, who wrote The Heart of Darkness, once said, “The mind of man is capable of anything.” What he is telling us was that a person will do any actions by any means regardless of its consequence. There is always an evil side living inside the human soul, and this evil side breaks out during times when there is a difference in culture; for example, during World War II, Nazis killed any Jews that appeared in Europe, and their reason was Jews were not considered Germans, and they were believed to be disloyal and untrustworthy. This shows the difference in culture that created darkness inside the mind of the Nazis, who told them to do unimaginable things. The madness, fear, imperialism, death, escape, and difference in culture are the main theme of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now; although they were written in different times, settings, and purposes, they both express how savage the human mind can be when he confronts with darkness. Both the novel Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now address the idea of imperialism. Imperialism, defining as a country’s political, military, and economic domination over another, is the theme that talk thoroughly in both works. For instance, in Heart of Darkness, richer nations are robbing the goods in Africa, such as ivory and slaves, while in Apocalypse Now America is trying to subvert Vietnam from being Communism. A modern example that relate to the idea of imperialism is America showing assistant...
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...Reaction Paper “Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind” Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), mathematician, philosopher and revolutionist was said to be the most famous prophet of progress in the Enlightenment period. Condorcet was born in Ribemont, France, and was taught at the Jesuit College in Reims and at the College of Navarre in Paris. He was skilled in various different areas, and when the Enlightenment came, he was enthralled by the idea of democracy. In Condorcet’s article “Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind”, he demonstrates his strong opinions on the idea of progress and change for society. Excerpts from “The Ninth Epoch” and “The Ten Epoch”, also written by Condorcet, help to portray these ideas. In the introduction to the article, Condorcet explains general thoughts about the history and ideology of society. He says that generally people did not want to go against tradition, but they did believe that religion and government could change. By change they did not necessarily mean moving forward with new ideas, but resorting back to features of previous “golden ages”. People believed that history repeated itself, and the way of life would always be the same. It was not until the 18th and 19th centuries in the West that people began to believe in beneficial changes, they began to believe in progress. This belief in progress dates back to the 18th century Enlightenment; people thought they could better humanity by eliminating cruelties, superstitions...
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...is a philosopher who values humans and thinks they are the smartest and especially due to the fact that they have minds. When saying “The mind is the lawgiver of nature” Kant refers to the fact that humans make rational decisions by basing their decision on morals. When reading the statement one thinks about the word “lawgiver”; this word refers to a fictional weapon. Therefore Kant looks at the mind as a fictional weapon that is not seen but that plays an important role in our everyday life and that helps humans make the decisions they make and gain the experiences they gain in order to succeed and follow their morals. People see reality as it is but according to Kant, mind is what makes our lives true and our realities real. In order to understand the statement made by Kant, first we need to learn more about Kant. Kant’s ethics are all about morals and the steps that people make in order to make things better and people happier around them. Kant uses the idea of acting in accordance to duty and from duty. The only difference between these two was the fact that people need to do something because it is duty and sometimes people need to do things because not only it’s their duty but because they will gain from it and be happy as well from the experience. As it can be seen through his ethics, Kant thinks that all human beings deserve the best life ever and they deserve to follow ethics so that they do not hurt each other. Kant’s theory is that humans should not just take action;...
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...The mind is a tool; maybe even a weapon and it can be very deadly or dangerous to mankind. The mind has created some of the most destructive creations know to man including the nuke, or atom bomb. These are two things that have destroyed cities, houses, and even killed thousands of human lives. Then you have a superior mind such as Beethoven created amazing pieces of musical art work. Beethoven wrote most of the famous pieces we know today as a deaf man, that just tells you what a mind is capable of doing. It is amazing what the mind can do considering that they say we are only able to use so much of the brain. I’m not saying that the brain and mind is the same thing because they are not. A brain is a physical thing or something that you can hold, a mind is just something that can’t be seen with eyes. In Buddhist scriptures it is said that the human body is equal to a guest home and the mind as a guest dwelling. The mind leaves our body, when it is time for us to die, and goes to the next life. This is similar to the guest leaving the house and moving elsewhere. Well anyways back to the point Mr. Deville only 10% of our brains are used and is said that if we were able to tap the other 90% that we could read “pie” to the twenty thousandth decimal place, or even have telekinetic powers. There is even a website called lumosity.com that students from Harvard university had came up with, which includes brain training activities online that work and that help your mind skills...
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...is the study of the mind. To be more specific, it is the study of how one thinks, remembers, learns, and perceives; the mental processes. It shows us how a group of people can view the same object and yet form different conclusions on what the object is. Cognitive is one of the newer fields of psychology. It is only 50 years old (Willingham, 2007). It was finalized as its own branch in response to the lack of information provided from previous branches psychology. No other branch truly dealt with how and why a person thought or was able to learn and remember. Two keys components of the workings of the human mind. Granted these two key components helped open the door for cognitive psychology, several key milestones helped get cognitive psychology’s feet through the door. These key milestones include the missteps of behaviorism, information processing and the computer metaphor, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. The Missteps of Behaviorism Behaviorism came into the world of psychology and appeared to the solution for it all. The key was to study the actions of a person. The mind was of no consequence. For quite a few years, there were not any doubts about behaviorism. Behaviorism had a good run but it could not answer questions about a human’s mind. After all, to behaviorists the mind was not important. Behaviorists believed that everything they learned from experiments on animals, applied to humans. Questions were now being asked about how humans learned language. Animals...
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...cognitive refers to the mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and comprehension. These mental processes include the acts of thinking, knowing, remembering, reasoning, judging, learning, perceiving, speaking, believing, speaking, decision making and problem solving. These are more complex functions of the brain and include language, imagination, perception and planning. It uses scientific research methods in studying the mental processes. In other words, cognitive psychology is a scientific approach to studying the mind. The main focus of cognitive psychology is on how an individual acquires, processes, and stores information, and it studies how individuals view and comprehend the world around him or her. Cognitive psychology also focuses on trying to identify behavior through characteristics other than its obvious properties (Willingham, 2007). Cognitive psychology rose to the top due to top in response to the flaws in other methods of studying the mind. Key Milestones in the Development of Cognitive Psychology Cognitive psychology developed primarily from the inability of the behaviorist approach to fully explain every form of behavior. While there were many things that drove its development, there were four main milestones in the development of cognitive psychology: the inadequacies of behaviorism, the information processing model and computer metaphor, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience. Each of these four milestones contributed significantly to the search...
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...Cognitive Psychology Paper PSY 360 What is Cognitive Psychology? Cognitive psychology addresses the mental processes responsible for understanding why an individual does the things he or she does. These primary principals are: a person’s perceptions, attention, learning, memory, conceptualization, reasoning, judgment, and problem-solving. Perception is the way a person understands and forms judgments and opinions about the environment he or she resides. In point, perception is unique in each individual. It varies based on a person’s experiences and environment. Another key factor is attention. This is based on how a person processes and sorts information he or she gathers. Not all information is retained, and this is how memory comes into play. Information important is stored and can be retrieved at a later date. Information unnecessary is not stored and may not paid much attention to because it is not pertinent information. How a person learns and processes information is based on his or her learning style. Conceptualization is important because it categorizes information and determines what is to be stored and what is to be used and disposed of. Additionally, reasoning, judgment, and problem-solving are large...
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...every time it happen. People now and days are very interesting the fact that they are hard to read or determine as to what they might do next. With the society we live in now and days, there are many people from all sorts of life. It is important to keep in mind that we are all not the same. We all have our own though and way of doing things and that often reflect as to how we are thinking in our minds. We all have different thinking and ways of seeing things. Everyone has different view and ideas toward how people see the world. It is often said that though are very important and how people react to them. The mind of human are unique and vary that people are often thinking about different things. If we knew how the human mind work, we will be able to stop most of the bad things that happen in the world today. We can only determine a little of what people are thinking and how to react to it. A little bit is often said that why we think of how the human minds is thinking, we all have different views toward things. What we think that might be right in our minds could be wrong in other people minds. It often come down to how we were brought up as a person or individual. It is relatively easy to see and understand how we as human think...
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...Liebniz, and others, psychology has a very long past but only a short scientific history. Philosophical Background In the seventh century B.C., the King of Egypt conducted what many, including psychology historian Morton Hunt, consider to be the first psychology experiment. Though flawed and rudimentary, the king tested his idea that thoughts and language came from the mind. Although unscientific, the idea of the minds overall ability to do more was put to the test. Socrates (460-399 B.C.) often considered and referred to as a father of philosophy, stated “One thing only I know and that is I know nothing.” This realization came when he concluded that philosophy can only begin when one learns to doubt, particularly the thoughts and ideals that each individual holds dear and sacred. In short, real philosophy cannot start until one’s mind begins to examine itself. Again the mind is central and paramount. To modern psychology he gave the Socratic Method of questioning, which demanded definitions be as accurate as possible, clear thinking at all times, and exact analysis of all details. Hippocrates (460-370 B.C), the father of medicine, developed a new method of research that necessitated the need for careful observation followed by precise collection and interpretation of facts. This method was incorporated into the study of individual physical...
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...theory. Cognitive theory helps to explain the human behavior, and focuses on the thought process. The presumption is people make logical choices that are justifiable to them. Psychologist uses information processing to understand the mental process of a human mind, thus looking at similarities between a computer and human mind. Cognitive theory greatly discards behaviorism on the foundation that it lowers the complexity of human behavior, and refers to it as cause and effect. In the past there was a tendency to combine cognitive and behaviorism into one theory, the cognitive behavior theory. Thus, allowing therapist to combine the techniques and assist people in achieving their goals. A subset of cognitive theory is the social cognitive theory. Its main focus is how we learn to imitate the behavior of others. Psychologist uses social cognitive theory to treat certain psychological disorders like phobias (Fritscher, 2011). An example of cognitive behavior is someone is running late for an appointment. They know speeding is wrong, but they justify it with there is no police around, I need to get there on time. Again it’s the way the human mind works and the thought process in justifying why we do certain things, or why it’s okay to do certain things. Behaviorism Behaviorism is a theory that believes behaviors are trainable, changeable, and measured. Behaviorism is a learning theory assumed on the thought that human behaviors are obtained through conditioning. Conditioning...
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...perceptions of how the core qualities can be developed and balanced into the human mentality and also how can they be administered in a broader aspect to garner success. However, the elements of success in 21st century from Howard Gardener and Claudio Fernández-Aráoz are not exactly the same. In terms of being successful in the globalized world nowadays, they vary on unlike aspects which include the nature and application of essential skills and features. Howard Gardener, a famous researcher in psychology who has been studying the functions of mind such as development, organization and creation. He suggests that in order to flourish and outshine in a globalized world, every person has to be concerned with how to establish those minds in the younger generation, those who could be taught to become the leaders or managers of tomorrow. Gardener also mentions five different minds that he believes human beings should develop in the future. The disciplined mind reminds us working stably over time to enhance skills and comprehension, the synthesizing mind collates information and presents it in a coherent way, the creating mind leads us to pull out new ideas and unexpected answers, the respectful mind greets the differences between individuals and finds to cooperate with each other effectively, and the ethical mind struggles to conceptualize proper work that people can do it unselfishly. In other words, these minds which are applied today will absolutely become a valuable property in the...
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...What does Plato’s analogy of the cave tell us about human beings? Plato's analogy of the cave is intended to explain our journey to knowledge which is the purpose of philosophy. He does this by comparing an average person to someone who has been confined to an isolated life in a cave with the ability to only look at the shadows casted on the wall. This is used to represent the limitation of the human mind and their inability to look beyond their senses. The prisoner is enslaved to a life of in cave only seeing the shadows that are casted on the wall in front of him. This symbolises an average person who has not embarked on the journey to true knowledge and is living their life only seeing what is on the surface, what they want to see. In the cave the prisoner is held by chains, this represents the power of society over the average human being and is reinforced by the influence of media which portrays a life of misapprehension. The prisoner is cloaked with a false reality and has never known life outside the cave, this tells us that human beings have become accustom to their ‘comfort zone’ and refuse to believe in a world that they have never seen. This relates to Plato’s idea that our senses are what deceive us but can we seek a world that we have never seen, heard or felt? The mind is where all great things are conceived and no two minds are alike, this allows us to seek truth through reasoning. Plato believes that our mind is conditioned by the walls of society and humanity...
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...Universal Laws Being human laws, statutory laws are imperfect in the sense that the law enforcement officers, the prosecution officers, the judiciary officers, and the custodial officers, are subject to their ethical behaviours and conducts which have impacts on the criminal justice. Likewise, the perpetrators and offenders can evade justice and punishments if they are not detected or dealt with by the authorities. Human laws also do not cover every aspect of human actions, such as human thoughts and intentions which are not easily detected and proven in courts. It is obvious that human laws cannot prohibit everything that the human do. It also seems that human laws do not deal with every virtuous action of human, such as greed, anger, stupidity. Human laws can also be unjust if they are misused by the authorities for their selfish or covetous acts and not for the benefit of the community, or if they are enacted by the authorities to misuse as acts of violence rather than humane laws to protect the community. Thus, Universal Laws have their rightful place in our world as they are perpetual, immutable, and self administering. They need no government, policemen, courts and jails to enforce the laws for the maintaining of order. They are impartial to all people, religions, governments, institutions, race, or ethnic background without regard for special treatment or favouritism. All creation in the cosmos is governed by Universal Laws which are the unwavering and...
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