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Post by junghyunnie on Jun 29, 2015 8:15:19 GMT
WEEK#11. Why was Socrates sentenced to death? Meletus prosecuted Socrates with two charges. The first charge brought against to Socrates was that Socrates didn’t revere Gods whom the city believes, but believe in other Gods. In the Socratic Dialogue with Euthyphro, Euth asked Socrates the reason why he is being prosecuting by Meletus. Then, Socrates says, “he says that I am a poet or maker of gods, and that I invent new gods and deny the existence of old ones; this is the ground of his indictment” (Page.6). This dialogue states that Socrates was accused by not adoring Gods acknowledged by city. In ancient Greek, Athens set great store by their specific Gods. In the Great Mystery from How Socrates died, Socrates says, “For I can not understand whether you say that I teach them to believe that there are certain Gods, not, how ever those which the city believes in, but others; and this is that you accuse me of, that I introduce others” (page.39). According to what Socrates said, the second charge was that he had corrupted youth by his teaching. Since this century was stern with Gods. Having and Letting know another deities might show that Socrates is being corrupted Athen’s youth. In a stern era when Socrates lived, dishonor to the Gods known by city and teaching another deities lead him sentenced to death. When he received death sentence, his friend Crito suggested him to leave. However, Socrates opposed corruption. Then Socrates himself drank the poisonous hemlock. Plato. How Socrates Died: A Selection from Plato's Dialogues.Trans. Henry Cary. MSAC Philosphy Group. Retrieved Jun 25, 2015. From http//:www.neuralsurfer.com 2. Why is there a conflict (for some) between science and religion? Science and Religion often have open confrontations and conflicts with each other because of mere similar topics to explain the natural phenomenon. One would argue that science is to observe the natural occurrences happen random in nature while the other contradicting party would state that God has created men and earth and that we must believe by faith. According to the book “The Great Mystery”, it states, “Oh Dave, that guy who just verbally assaulted you is a fundamentalist Christian and he thinks your publication contradicts the Bible and insults his religion”(The Great Mystery, 2014). Christians often react so defensively when they are challenged the question in whether God has created all. In this quote, there had to be an unavoidable conflict between David Lane and the fundamentalist Christian because one was trying to explain the same viewpoint in how everything was created in a different approach to explain creation. While Christian believers would only explain everything by faith which will never bring the argument to a halt. To give another example that brings conflict is the quote, “Francis Crick say as that consciousness is just a bundle of neurons or when Patricia Churchland indicates we are just three pounds of meat, how do we feel then?”(The Great Mystery, 2014). The science advocates can clearly say and verbally such words without hesitation because one is trying to prove a closest understanding to how and why we would exist and that a simple chunk of meat can be compared to human beings. On the other hand, Christians again, would argue that men were put would clear and concise purpose to their existence on earth. This would pose a conflict once again between science and religion. Science is clearly acting upon the observations of nature while religion solely acts on faith alone (Religious Tolerance, 2012). The two heavy components will have an unending argument because each side claims a different solution to the same problem. Religious Tolerance, (2012). Conflicts between Science and Religion: A brief overview; examples; causes. Retrieved June 24, 2015. From www.religioustolerance.org/scirel_ov1.htmLane, D.C., & Diem Lane, A. (2014). The Great Mystery: Matter vs. Spirit Retrieved on June 24, 2015. From www.neuralsurfer.comEXTRA CREDIT :
misarea Avatar Jun 24, 2015 at 11:45am misarea said: Week 1 Essay Questions: Why was Socrates sentenced to death? 2. Why is there a conflict (for some) between science and religion? The main charges against Socrates was that he "corrupted the youth," did not believe in God, and created new gods. In a society built on order, these charges were deemed highly offensive and serious. Socrates' defense speech attempts to support his actions versus apologize to the court and people. He likens himself to the gadfly, having tried to "wake up" the people of Athens from their mundane and robotic actions of simply accepting societal law and order versus questioning ideology and thinking for themselves. He is narrowly sentenced to death, a death he chooses of drinking poison. The death of Socrates calls into question the conflict between science and religion. Why do both seem to clash so consistently? Why was Socrates' charges seen as repulsive and horrendous enough to end his life? The answer comes down to matter, everything and anything around us that takes up space. Yet, in short, we do not fully understand the essence of matter or how it came to be. As written in The Great Mystery "The limits of our skull are the limits of our understanding." (Lane 12). This is why religion has such a powerful influence. It provides an answer, the answer of mystery, that seems to soothe one's mental dilemma of life and its purpose. Yet, what science does is call into question some of these "mysteries" and attempts to provide a materialistic solution. Similar to the plight of Socrates, those who seek religion do so to provide meaning and order in life. Having any scientific reasoning threatens this sense of order and causes one to take on a more questionable approach to life.
: Misarea's essay answer gives agreeing point to me. Corrupting youth, did not believe in Gods, and created new Gods are the main charges. However, one of the other main reasons that dragged Socrates in to the bigger trouble was Socrates’ method. As Misarea mentioned in her essay answers, he was a “gadfly”. His method has persuasive power, but sometimes, it incurs a censure. FLASH EXTRA CREDIT : WHAT IS MATTER? To define matter, according to Dictionary.com, “matter, is the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed”(Dictionary.com, 2015). The word matter roots down to the origin from the word “Mother” and it simply was meant to say that it is a starting point of any object. Anything and everything is matter. Any “Thing” can be traced down to its original building blocks that eventually forms to be called matter (Neuralsurfer, 2015). These building blocks can be said to be in the simplest form of atoms which consists of neutrons, electrons, and protons. These then build all the way up to perhaps a tree, dog, earphones, and human. Original word atom was created by Democritus with a revolutionary idea stating that things were made by invisible small particles (Neuralsurfer, 2015). Matter is not explaining about one thing or complete object. It explains about the littlest details and its special components that makes up a thing. Every little things you can think or can be broken down into smaller things. Taking a walk to the park can lead you into infinite ponder into the phenomenal wonders of matter. Dictionary.com. (2015). Matter. Retrieved June 29, 2015. From dictionary.reference.com/browse/matterNeuralsurfer. (2015, January 6th). What is Matter? The magic of Physics [Science and Technology]. Retrieved from www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmi4tHc0Sds&feature=youtu.be
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Post by junghyunnie on Jul 6, 2015 5:07:52 GMT
WEEK#2
1. Why is understanding physics and the general rules of the universe so important in doing philosophy? Philosophy and physics has correlation that supports each other’s ideas to explain our nature, surrounding, which is our world and our thinking process. In order to understand, we must truly grasp the idea of how nature came about and what really nature is. Physics and the rules of the universe can provide philosophy with an explanation of how things work, how things came about and it adds an additional explanation and broadens our thinking parameters. Sir Isaac Newton was a natural philosopher that pondered upon why some invisible unexplainable forces were abundant in our surrounding. He later found gravity which we can now say that law of gravity works upon all of us at 9.81m/s . The idea of having the thought of something or some energy being there that is acting upon all of us came first. One pondered upon the uncertainty of the anomaly of falling. There were no explanation to this invisible power at the time but physics and the rules of universe provided the explanation to why things fall. To conclude why understanding physics and general rule of universe is so important in philosophy is because you must understand the act of nature to support the anomaly that exists around us. Nature has it’s own behavior and has an explanation that we may not see or know right now. Having the knowledge of physics and the general rule of the universe allows us to think beyond of what we see, feel and think radically. According to the video “The elegant universe", Einstein was able to explain that there is a energy called “light” that is the fastest and the speed limit of everything. He came up with the idea that even if sun destructs, earth will not feel the impact being out of orbit until the light reaches earth first. Then, he proved that gravity is not the link between earth and planet orbit around the sun. To make things short, knowing the physics, the philosophy and physics can achieve a higher understanding and prove why, how we are and things work around us. Physics and the general rules of the universe are important to our critical thinking of philosophy. 2. What is eliminative materialism? Provide three examples of it.
By definition, “Eliminative materialism (or eliminativism) is the radical claim that our ordinary, common-sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common-sense do not actually exist.” (SEP, 2013). To simply explain eliminative materialism, it means that things that we think that are, really is not. There are many examples to eliminative materialism. I personally felt that the second part of the eliminative materialism clip was pretty convincing. People in the past and even some areas in the world believed there was the thunder god or the illness is from the evil spirits. The eliminative materialism is stating that once that we thought it was, it really was not. The clip mentions that thunder and lightning is acting up due to electro magnetism in the sky and illness from evil spirit is actually from little bacteria. Another example would maybe perhaps ourselves. According to Churchland, our desire, motivation, love, anger and free will is the psychology that is not from the robust neuroscience explanations but actually from our long ago mythics, predecessor’s stories and virtues. By this, I believe that instead of giving analytical, scientific explanation of the neurology, it might be showing neural signals that one may apt to have. Last example is the fact that we still do not have an explanation to what consciousness is. According to the movie clip part 3 of eliminative materialism, Physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, none of the academic indications can explain it, then we simply put it as God did it. There are some things that eliminative materialism cannot claim to have proven the area of interest such as consciousness. However, eliminative materialism challenges and strives to find real facts and data that can explain the every reason to why everything is here and works a certain way.
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Jun 29, 2015 1:47:42 GMT -7 sabinalee said: Week Two Essay Questions: 1. Why is understanding physics and the general rules of the universe so important in doing philosophy? I think philosophy is just like physics. Understanding physics and the general rules of the universe is important in doing philosophy because like how the video stated "Eliminative Materialism". In the video it says; the best way to challenge the topic of consciousness was the process of eliminative materialism in which scientists believed that if the theory was not able to solved mathematically then it turned into physics. Especially when we are talking about deep examinations in areas of study such as the natural sciences, and mathematics. Physics is the understanding of nature specifically the study of matter and how it moves through space and time. Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence where as physics is defined as the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. The practice of philosophy of physics is continuous with the practice of physics itself, its basically like philosophy begins where physics ends and physics begins where philosophy ends. Philosophy searches for the truth, as to physics is why science exist. After all, science is a search for truth by rational means, which is why it is important to understand the physics and the general rules of the universe in philosophy. 2. What is eliminative materialism? Provide three examples of it. I think what eliminative materialism essentially means is the process that is used to explain and to understand questions we have in different subjects. (1) In the film of Eliminative Materialism part 1 said, "if the phenomena can not be explained fully and comprehensively with mathematics, the one turns to physics. If that too is incomplete, then to chemistry, then to biology, then to psychology, then to sociology". Only when none of these have an answer, do we give credit to God. New ideas and theories come to play as modern science brings in new answers. (2) Is the Universe Really Made out of Rubber Bands?, the young boy mentioned "string theory which can fall under Quantum Mechanics which can therefore fall under Physics". The book Quantum Weirdness also makes a good point of the connection between physics and philosophy.(3) The video also mentioned realizing that bacteria and viruses are real instead of blaming “spirits” for the cause of diseases. All of Greek mythology would be an example of eliminative materialism considering at one point our weather and nature was thought to be brought upon by Gods and heroes. Lastly, my thought about this whole eliminative materialism is probably evolution, I think "evolution" has this whole generic concept of Eliminative Materialism because of how it gets god involved and all these sort of scientific things that leads on to evolution.
:I agree, in order to bring rational explanation to what is constantly happening around us can be explained by physics and the philosophy provides the way of thinking to bring a harmonious explanation to whatever is happening in life. I feel like the second question can have a bit more personal understanding. I am curious in what aspect Quantum weirdness can make a good point of the connection between physics and philosophy. Quantum weirdness is an interesting reading by the way. Thank you for your input.
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Post by junghyunnie on Jul 12, 2015 10:42:44 GMT
WEEK#31. Why is the theory of evolution so important in understanding how human beings behave?
According to Darwin’s theory of evolution, all living things have one common ancestor that we all share. To his theory it indicates that humans have evolved not only physically but neurologically as well. As time gradually passed, human minds have evolved in creating ways to find better living conditions even in the primitive years of human life. So, with evolution in mind, Darwin’s theory supports the evolution of human thinking processes and also behavioral adaptations to the given setting of their life. I am sure that early human beings also had social life and community like today. Human behavior will change as they learn and adapt to given circumstances and fixate the new behavior and pass down to next generations. Theory of evolution says that natural selection chooses ands the fittest lives. Main purpose is to leave offsprings and fight to survive, but for humans we do not behave in that manner. Humans have no way for natural selection and does not compete and eliminate one another to possibly evolve over gradual time. Humans have many offsprings without the chance of natural selection. Which according to Darwin, that was the only way how we have evolved from the primitive years (TSF, 2011). Evolution theory states that gradual time and natural selection makes a chance to gradually evolve. Human beings have been able to climb the natural selection rank and have become invincible. So, to see a connection of evolution and life, we compete for social spots, rankings and etc., rather than being on top of actual food chain and elimination. Theory of evolution ties in a lot with humans in evolution of thought process. TheScienceFoundation, (2011). The Genius of Charles Darwin – Part1 – Life, Darwin & Everything. Retrieved July 9, 2015. From www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&list=PL546E61DB9E77DFC2&v=ptV9sNezEvk
2. Which questions do you think evolutionary theory cannot answer? Evolutionary theory has a conflict from origin of a species. According to evolution, life has started as a cell and gradually has evolved. Evolution hides the fact of the origin of that one organism that was the first common ancestor. Evolution by theory, believed that the organism had to fill the niche and evolve to survive the natural selection. However, this idea has flaws. As I mentioned above, the one organism has no origin so evolution throws that it might have come extraterrestrial which is not earths origin. Darwin’s theory in natural selection of the evolved species does not explain how the weak species had come by in the first place. Darwin states that the species had evolved to fit the life style that was required at the time but the natural selection took place to keep the survival of the fittest. On the contrast, at the time, Darwin did not know that it was a genetic mutation that had occurred among species that made a certain mutated species more vulnerable to threat and resulted in the theory of natural selection without the idea of evolution. Darwin believed that the species solely evolved and was eliminated according to the natural selection theory but now we have come to realize that the natural selection took place on a genetic mutated species that fit the niche and survived. According to the video clip of Darwin vs. Wallace, Wallace states that natural selection could not have contributed to the complexity of the human mind. According to Darwin, he states that conscious mind came from unconscious mind. This also begs the question of where the intelligence has derived from (NeuralSurfer, 2013). Neuralsurfer, (2013). The Darwin-Wallace Debate on the Mind of Man/How Far Does Natural Selection Extend? Retrieved July 9, 2015 From www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLlfCIKfR9cEXTRA CREDIT :
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Post by junghyunnie on Jul 20, 2015 5:45:11 GMT
WEEK#4
1. Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness.
Basically, we can simulate out a scenario before hand through our imagination to prepare for actual real happenings to happen. The benefit is to play out possibilities without any loss in reality. According to the film, “Brain Burn”, it states, “It helps us survive chance contingencies by developing a statistically deep understanding of what varying option portend.” This virtual simulation with our consciousness allows us to develop an internalized map of possibilities. This can then be visualized internally without having to be outsourced prematurely (Fragment 28). Suppose having a given scenario of choosing a color for your room. You may have time to choose but you may not have the colors in front of you. However, you know what colors red, white, and blue looks like so you try to put all the colors fit into the room so you can choose in advance before you may just make a choice right off the bat. This allows you to imagine the colors painted in the room and virtually simulate the color of the room through your imagination. This then allows you to come to a decision to which color would be best according to the result of the simulation.
2. How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival?
I have been living in America for about 4 years now, and it was very hard for me to adapt to the environment here is the U.S. However, at one point I was able to develop a sort of trickery to myself by having “rain sounds” turned on during my sleep to simulate a “back home” weather to comfort my needs. Also, day by day, I was worried about what to say, and how to act according to certain questions and responses. So, I constantly thought over and over about what to say and how to react in case of an event that “might” take place. According to the video “Brain Burn” it says that we develop so many questions through our philosophy that those questions are less to do with reality but more to do with evolutionary needs. Basically, the type of thinking and questions I thought earlier in my experience had me able to adapt to certain environments even if our body was not adapted to fit certain environmental niche. I have survived through constant imaginations and reassurance by thinking and thinking. At the end of the video it states, “those without consciousness do not have this liberty, when they do play out a choice, they do so in a real world.” This is a scary thought for me, not being able to play out consciously and acting it out is very risky business in my opinion. The book on Cerebral Mirage, it states “humankind was under the spell of a cerebral mirage, one which gave a false sense of knowledge and certainty. The brain tricks us into believing something to be real when it is not, provided that such trickery provides with a survival advantage. Basically, the brain can mimic a real life situation and simulate it to allow us to play our possible probabilities and choices so that we can make a decision to survive through a contingency.
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Jul 16, 2015 20:22:51 GMT -7 desireevallejo said:
Week 4 Questions:
1. Explain the virtual simulation theory of consciousness.
The virtual simulation theory of cociounsess explains a belief that everything we see is not real and basically it’s all in our heads. When we use our minds or our consciousness we may see things that are not real. Consciousness implicates thoughts, sensations, perceptions, moods, emotions, dreams and self-awareness. In the video, Disneyland of Consciousness” the guy goes onto the Pirates of the Caribbean ride and his friend things everything is real in the ride such as the pirates and the shooting scene. When it was explained, to the friend the friend understood that it was all-fake and a robot that makes the ride look real. Otherwise, our consciousness is the only sanity for thinking we exist. Without it there are no beliefs, sensations or experience of being. This shows that our consciousness is all in our heads and it’s all just an illusion to make things funnier and your adrenaline going, which makes life fun in my opinion.
2. How does the brain trick us and for what benefit is it for our genetic survival? Be sure to support your answers with references to the required readings and films.
I think that our brain tricks us by as reading the book “The Cerebral Mirage”, they describe the cerebral mirage as things that may look like its there but in reality its not. Its also gives misleading information which its opinion of knowledge and certainty. We basically know it’s our brain that imagines something that’s actually not real. Such as in “The Disneyland of Consciousness” during the Pirate of the Caribbean ride, the little boy saw something that he thought was real, but it was just his mind thinking it was real. His brain was making tricks with him because with the lights shining on the pirates, it made the pirates realistic when it was just a fake robot but looks human. Our brain tricks us because its part of genetic survival, which helps us, gets through things and whether knowing what’s real a fake in our world we live in.
: I agree with you that consciousness does implicate sensations, perceptions, moods, emotions, dreams and self-awareness. The example that you gave on Disney does make sense to visualize as a real life being almost being tricked or being sworn by it that it was real. According to the film, Professor Lane stated that he thought one of the puppets were actually played by real person. However, I think in my opinion, virtual simulation is more about being able to simulate a plausible contingency in our mind with real life senses involved to mimic a real life situation that “may or may not” happen. I think the theory is to explain show how our mind can give “real life” and “real feel” of certain choices, environment, and possible outcomes of probabilities that one may face in life. Thank you for your post.
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Post by junghyunnie on Jul 24, 2015 5:39:11 GMT
WEEK#51. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future? The film on Ray Kurzweil describes that technological advancements have made so much progress for the human race and it has become a major part of our life (BigThink, 2009). Creation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can mean many things for me. We’ve watched so many movies in relation to AI such as “i-robot”. There it shows the invasion of AI robots that has gone viral and creates a massive chaos in the human race. In terms of the influence of “movies” per say, it is frightening to see this kind of disaster. I personally stand in a middle ground to the question to is AI will be a significant problem (BigThink, 2009). Pros to AI is that computers harness a greater amount of accurate storage and computational skills and infinite ways to update and learn new softwares. Human race even today are benefiting from the computer power and without computers and high-tech software, our society may go in to a hault in function. Having a AI that can accurately hold and manipulate and record data or release data would be a much at a benefit for us. The cons to AI is not like the movie i-robot but may be a cyber-terrorism. Ray Kurzweil states that there are grave dangers to genetics nano-technology and robotics due to possible bio terrorism on programmed viruses that was supposed to help the human health (BigThink, 2009). There may be similar type of threat due to reprogramming of software of the AI to do damage to one another from the manipulation of the terrorists. It is significant in both ways to find advancements in these technologies and also significant to be so careful to make sure to have remedies to such technological terror attacks. Ray Kurzweil states that “New dangers are prominent however, the amount of good is greater than the harm.” I too believe the same way so in terms of this question I stand in the middle of the decision. BigThink, (2009). Ray Kurzweil: The coming singularity. Retrieved on July 23, 2015. From www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIzS1uCOcE2. How has technology impacted your life? Our society depends on technology so much that I think our society will shut down for a period of time to catch up to the work load the technology has been managing. As simple as technology goes, the simplest thing now-a-day are cell phone. Our cell phones carry vital information such as contacts, personal private information, schedules, computational data and etc. One time I had left my cell phone at home and had gone to a distant city without knowing that I left it. Once I found out that I was without cell phone, all of my schedules and thoughts went blank. I did not know how to find ways to get to places nor find information and who to talk to during the travel. I felt powerless and stripped down to bare bones just because I had left my phone at home. I realized how much I depended on it and how much of my life was stored in the phone. According to the film Global positioning intelligence it says that if one leaves cell phone behind, the person will be willing to turn around and retrieve the phone (Neuralsurfer, 2013). Everything and everyone is turning psychic throughout the world through the technology we harness today. We are able to retrieve and send information in matter of seconds to someone across the world (Neuralsurfer, 2013). Neuralsurfer, (2013). GPI/GLOBAL POSITIONING INTELLIGENCE/ Telepathy in a Digital Future. Retrieved on July 23, 2015. From www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQUDob6Y7jsEXTRA CREDIT :
sabinalee Avatar Jul 15, 2015 11:55:31 GMT -7 sabinalee said: Week Five Essay Questions: 1. Do you think artificial intelligence will be a significant problem in the future? I believe, in the future, there will be great benefits to artificial intelligence, as well as problems with artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, in the future, will be very beneficial as artificial intelligence was in the 1930’s. Around the 1930’s, Alan Turing created The Bombe Machine. The Bombe Machine was artificially intelligent and contributed to the German’s loss in the Second World War. In addition, artificial intelligence can provide great quality education to people around the world. Also, Artificial intelligence may be able to save lives; for example, it might be able to decrease the spread of disease or can find a cure. Nonetheless, there will be conflict with artificial intelligence in the future. To exemplify, artificial intelligence may increase the unemployment rate. Jobs may be overtaken by artificial intelligent systems, resulting in people have a difficult time affording food. There may also be no privacy, as stated in the book, Digital Philosophy. Also, as psychologists today are arguing, “that our attention span is getting warped by our increasing tendency to multitask and that we are suffering from digital overload” (Digital Philosophy 11). I believe that the arguments the psychologists have will continue in the future. 2. How has technology impacted your life? Technology has significantly impacted my life. I enjoy learning new things and technology has benefited me by providing me a better way in gaining knowledge. Without technology there would be no iPhone 6 where I can access YouTube, iBook’s, Khan Academy, TED, and much more. If I have trouble with a topic in a course I am taking, or have an exam coming up, I would watch Khan Academy videos. I typically watch educational YouTube videos and have learned many things from watching videos. Moreover, I enjoy reading books and I enjoy reading actual, physical books rather an eBook; however, I still read eBooks. A person can learn a lot from reading books and technology has allowed for a better, easier way to read books. Technology provides a faster and much simpler way to access certain implements; for example, the app iBook’s allows a person to quickly find the definition for certain words. As stated in the book, Digital Philosophy, “books are a particular repository of information and trying such wisdom to one form and one form only is to neglect the real project as hand which is that we wish to gain knowledge and wisdom.” Today, you see people with their head down looking at their phone and occasionally with earphones on. We are able to virtually interact with people through Facebook or Twitter, however, today, we are not directly interacting with people as much as we used to. It is stated in the book, Digital Philosophy, that “we are entertaining ourselves to death.” I enjoy watching several television series and sometimes get too involved in the show, in which I’d rather stay at home than be with friends. There are many advantages, as well as, disadvantages to technology; technology I believe has impacted me negatively but mostly positively.
: Hello Sabina, I too agree that in the future, AI will have great benefit and also problems with the technology. I believe that the AI intelligence can assist the human race in many ways and also provide accurate and precise data retrieval and receiving in all many ways. We sometimes picture AI as robots in movies such as “ex machine” or “-i-robot. However, the AI advancement can be from nano technological robots targeting perhaps a cancer or finding problems and resolve internally safely and accurately and may decrease the risk of death in the near future. I agree that AI does manage and can manage much more than human capacity by outstanding in speed and accuracy with precision. However, AI is heavily dependent on many of electromagnetism, flow of mechanics. As we all know these things can be only set to certain specifics and may require a actual human to manage these Technological complex robotic at a ratio of 1:1. As time progresses, even with AI, certain jobs may need more of a human’s refining touch and experience. In terms of technology impacting my life, I cannot even begin where to start to think if I didn’t have my phone or computer. My life depends most on these electronics and these systems allow me to further my knowledge and also to set a schedule in my life and having readily available data storage that I can use right away. Thank you for your post.
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Post by junghyunnie on Aug 3, 2015 0:26:29 GMT
WEEK#61. Why is Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles? Faqir Chands experiences were so important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles. This is because Chand states that nobody but you in a serious situation knows best. He states that we are the one projecting and visualizing these miraculous presence of “someone” in your near death situation may be that your consciousness relies on that “person, God, or things” and it may project it and make it feel the experience real. So, these religious visions or miracles may be a projection that may been given off during that near death state to give a last punch of survival instinct to kick in to have you survive that moment. Faqir Chand is saying that these visions are only your projections and they are no such thing as miracle or religious visions. Chand states, ““All visions are projections of the mind and are illusions” He also said, “I believe intensified faith of these devout persons became created and produces these results (NeuralSurfer). NeuralSurfer, (2015). The Visionary Illusion: Baba Faqir Chand’s Realization. Retrieved on July 29, 2015. From www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0V2nTcQohE2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy." Be sure to support your answers with references to the required readings and films.Philosophy adds the juice in the nature by coming up with ideas with our set of controls to figure out what is unknown. Most of the thinking and hypothesis is brought up by philosophy. Philosophy does the radial thinking, and going beyond the natural occurrences to find the obvious occurrences in world that we might not know why it is happening. One of classic example of philosophy being proven real was the Laws of gravity by Newton. Newton thought that there was some force that was pulling down the apple to the ground. He believed there was a measureable force by math and made visible this force. When this philosophical idea was explained and made tangible, we called it science. An example to where philosophy does not prove, it may just stay as a philosophy. An example is the string theory. The theory is outstanding and phenomenal thought process of what may be happening in the smallest level of electrons. However, not thought was proven and still remains as a philosophy. According to the film, “The Remainder Conjecture” it states, “If something is genuinely beyond science’s reach, it will invariably show up as a remainder” (NeuralSurfer, 2014). So, for things that science cannot reach ends up as remainder. When it is remainder, no other explanations can explain the remainder of the phenomena so it stays as philosophy. Neuralsurfer, (2014). The Remainder Conjecture: Driving Science to the Brink of an Epistemological Cul de Sac. Retrieved on July 30, 2015. From www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT0cL5g_1zEEXTRA CREDIT
Aug 1, 2015 14:56:57 GMT -7 Hansen Young said: 1. Why are Faqir Chand's experiences important in understanding the projective nature of religious visions and miracles? Having attained a high level of mastery over surat shabd yoga and conscious descent into near-death experiences, Faqir Chand can be said as speaking from a position of experience when he denounces other mystics, gurus, masters, etc and their claims of omnipotence/omniscience. His views on his own appearances to his followers is also enlightening, as it is not often one finds the opportunity to actually speak to the subject of visions people have. His own recounting that he wasn't personally aware of his appearances to his followers in their visions seems to support the theory that visions come from within instead of “with-out”, and that experience color the beholders of visions. Only his followers saw him in their visions. Seeing as we can't interview Yeshua or Yahweh and the validity of their appearances to Christian followers, I'd say Faqir Chand's experiences are the best we can hope for as evidence in the projective nature of religious visions and miracles. 2. What is meant by the phrase, "philosophy done well is science; philosophy done poorly remains philosophy." I'm reminded of the quote attributed to Daniel Patrick Moynihan: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Everyone can form an opinion, but unless that opinion is rooted in reality and supported by concrete evidence, it remain an opinion instead of rising up to the category of “fact”. Similarly, everyone is theoretically free to philosophize in whatever manner they choose, but unless they do so in such a way as to rely on current understanding of sciences and reality, as well as being formulated to be testable and able to withstand challenges, they might as well call it quackery. On the other hand, philosophy done well is science because that's exactly what it uses to support its findings and direct its future endeavors.
: 1. According to Faqir Chand, he states that all of the visions you see are your own mind's projections. The visions do not exist and they only arise from the one that "knows" about a certain belief. As you have mentioned, those that saw Faqir Chand was the followers and none others. So the entire statement focuses on how one can bring up a certain image and make it real to their consciousness. 2. I think when science is successful in developing a theory based off philosophy they call this solely possible by science. Often times, science takes all the praise and we often forget the input from the philosophy. As you know it philosophy is not as popular as science or known well enough nor supported. Having said that, when Philosophy fails to be proven by science, it remains as a remainder and stays as a philosophical thought.
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