Computers the New Human Being ?

        I would have to agree with John Searle that computers are not really intelligent, they just stimulate intelligence. Although computers are programmed to respond to different commands and we as human beings are to 'programed' to perform certain task, but this type of 'programing' in humans is not the same as in a computer programed to respond to different comands. computers are intelligent because humans set them up to be that way in order to make things easier for us. i see how they both can be compared to one another and i do believe that society does in fact 'program' us to be a certain way and our location in the world has a different way of doing so. We as human beings develop our intelligence in our daily lives by doing difficult things like learning new languages and more simple things like walking intelligence isn't programmed into us like it would be in a computer. 

Pragmatism & Feminism Epistemology - Week 4

         i do in fact believe that pragmatism and feminism epistemology both challenge the view of knowledge as detached intellectual activity. for pragmatist every belief is like a scientific hypothesis and every action is based on beliefs is like an experiment that either confirms or refutes viability. we should all think that we start our lives with natural or basic knowledge that is expected to develop through experience as we grow through life. we as human beings do learn through experience from young ages. for example as toddlers our parents all told us not to touch something because it was hot they knew it would hurt us but we still had to see for ourselves was it really hot and would it hurt. often learning the hard way is the way many people gain knowledge. 
        To me knowledge isn't about how much informations and facts you can memorize but knowledge is to truly understand things we believe in and what we want to know and get out our lives. overall each and everything we experience adds to our knowledge and we develop and learn from it .

Empiricism - Week 3 .

         Empiricism claims that all of our knowledge is based on our use of senses. In many ways this statement is completely true, but in some cases this claim does fall short. for the most part i believe this is true because from infants we learn many things just based off what we see, we learn to talk based off what we hear, which why people who have lost there hearing have a hard time pronouncing words they do not know what the word should sound like and can't hear themselves saying it to know whether they used correct  pronunciation. For example my niece who is one years old is learning and developing her vocabulary day by day didn't really know how to talk clearly or write and read yet but would make the noise of each letter in the alphabet because she had heard it so much. we as human beings do primarily learn through and from experience of our senses but as we get older more factors come into play and not just our senses. i think mathematical knowledge is one of the main. in a way i believe we learn mathematical through our senses without even realizing i say this because after we a taught a formula and know what it stands for when we see it the next time we automatically know what to do based on out last experience. but as mathematics gets difficult we cannot alway count on experience to give us correct knowledge. 

Dualism & Physicalism .

        Being more persuaded by the arguments of dualism I believe we as human beings should in fact think or ourselves as made out of two different substances just as Descartes argued. I say this because although the mind and body interact and casually effect one another they are two different things. A person could be mentally ill and physically their body is healthy and there was no trama to the brain and also the body may be phyiscally disabled but the mind is in working order not causing a change in the person's behavior or personality of course this is not always the case in people who suffer from brain damage but i don't necessarily think trama to the brain causes a change with the persons way of thinking and their mind it causes a physical change within the brain that doesn't allow them to express their thoughts as before. being that the body is a physical thing and the mind is not physical they are two different things. Although the mind is closely connected with the physical organ of our brain it is separate from our minds. i say this because we cannot directly point out or locate a thought in our brain or what part of the brain certain thoughts we have in our minds comes from. Physicalism doesn't really take into consideration how complex the mind is and how it is different from our physical bodies and that our mental life is like nothing else in the physical world. i believe that our minds would still be our own even if they could be placed in someone else's body.