Week 8

In my opinion Religion is a type of philosophy. Philosophy always challenges the mind to think about thinks we probably will never know if they are true or not and so does religion. For example as a Catholic I believe in God. There will probably never be real proof of that but its something I choose to believe. There are many things in religion that are argued about every day. Charles Darwin came up with his theory of evolution. This goes against what Catholics are suppose to believe. We are suppose to believe that Adam and Eve created us and this is why we are here today, but now we are hearing about us coming from monkeys? Philosophers have to think about this constantly. I think Charles Darwin made many people start questioning Christianity. All this time we were thinking we came from Adam and Eve but now there are other ideas of were we came from. In Philosophical terms faith has no role. But as a Christian you need faith to believe the things you do.

       Some philosophers say that computers are not really intelligent. And I agree with them. It takes a very intelligent person to make a computer. Computers can only do the things they are programed to do. If a computer is asked to do something it does not know how to do, things get confusing. Yes humans are programed to society but a human can change their thoughts and actions while a computer cannot it is programed until something is physically changed. For example we can learn a new language by reading and talking. A computer cannot really read. It is just programed to do certain things. Even the Bot A.L.I.C.E, she knew what was the capital of Ukraine but she did not know what was the biggest city in the world or what was 5 times 5. Alice answered 10. A computer would not understand how to do 5 times 5. To a person you can explain (5 sets of apples, 5 apples in each set) you can calculate in your head and understand that but a bot would not unless it is programed to know that. Soon the world will depend on robots only.

Our physical selves.

         I do not think that we are just purely physical beings. Then we would not be able to be held accountable for our actions. I think our brain is made to function in a way in which we have conscious and free will. We know what we can and cannot do. The brain is the physical organ that makes everything work. Without it we would have no conscious or thoughts. All our thoughts are collected in the brain. Think about this. If you are smart you would not do something that will send you to jail. If we were a physical being we would be just like a rat. Smart on the outside but probably not very practically smart.