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- 861: Individual Understanding
- ... with me. The functionalists define a mental state strictly through its cause and effect relationships, through its function. This thinking leads to the conclusion that the human brain is little more than a big, complex computer. All we humans do is take input, process it, and accordingly create output, just like a computer. In fact, functionalists who support strong AI go so far as to say that an appropriately programmed computer actually has all the same mental states and capabilities as a human. In AMinds, Brains, and Programs,@ John Searle outlines this argument: AIt is a characteristic of human beings= story understanding capacity that they ...
- 862: Honesty
- ... which drink more wine rather than beer (Italy or Greece or Spain). This is proven by the fact that many other beer drinking countries like Canada, America, England, Germany and Holland also have quite high crime, burglary and domestic violence rates. Another factor that adds to Australia’s high crime/burglary rate is the facts that just over 80% of Australia’s population live in a detached, single story house, which is accessible to burglars from all sides. This can be compared to Paris, which has one of the world’s lowest crime/burglary rates. This is due to the fact that Paris’ population is fairly dense, which means that most people live in apartments, flats or units. If you were a burglar, and you had to ...
- 863: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment I believe that capital punishment is the right thing to do, especially for repeat and violent offenders. I think that people should think about what will happen to them if they commit a crime, and the consequences that will follow the crime. We as a society have enough problems to deal with without people committing crimes. I am for capital punishment because the cost is expensive for keeping a prisoner in prison, society has the right to ... have to be lost. Certainly those who are executed do not kill again (Regoli and Hewitt 540). By executing the murderers the first time around, justice would have been served. The punishment should fit the crime and victim’s family and society would be helped knowing one less murderer is out on the streets. Capital punishment makes a statement: there is behavior that is unacceptable to a society and that ...
- 864: Capital Punishment
- Capital Punishment I believe that capital punishment is the right thing to do, especially for repeat and violent offenders. I think that people should think about what will happen to them if they commit a crime, and the consequences that will follow the crime. We as a society have enough problems to deal with without people committing crimes. I am for capital punishment because the cost is expensive for keeping a prisoner in prison, society has the right to ... have to be lost. Certainly those who are executed do not kill again (Regoli and Hewitt 540). By executing the murderers the first time around, justice would have been served. The punishment should fit the crime and victim’s family and society would be helped knowing one less murderer is out on the streets. Capital punishment makes a statement: there is behavior that is unacceptable to a society and that ...
- 865: Independent Study Project on Role Playing Games
- ... RPG's. There is the normal, original Dungeons and Dragons, and the more advanced, realistic Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. The creation of such games like Role Playing Games flowed along with the creation of the computer. Once computers got better, creators of RPG's thought they had to be one step better in order to keep up with the creation of games for the computer. How could written word and human error compare to flawless performance and never-ending challenge? Simple. The human factor. People don't want to listen to a box telling them what to do in a ... get better. The newest form of RPG's that has appeared within the last 10 years is the computerized RPG. With the dawning of the PC as the dominant system in the last 5 years, computer game companies have harnessed the increased power of the computers to make their product more exciting. The origins of the computerized RPG began with the crude adventure games of the late 70's. These ...
- 866: Are Traditional Methods Of Rendering Obsolete Or Not
- ... the more traditional hand drawn methods of rendering images and type and that it is not inevitably doomed but only lying dormant until we can escape from the world of the repeated style of the computer. The future of the traditional methods The 1980's saw some of the first computer aided design. The software has gradually become easier to understand yet capable of far more complex procedures. Nowadays it is available to anyone in their own home for as little as a thousand pounds. The world of design has been put under the spell of the Apple Macintosh, digital cameras and image manipulation software. Almost everything that we now see has been altered or produced on the computer, any thing from photos that we see in magazines where people have been made to look better than they actually are to the surroundings in the news room on the six o'clock news. ...
- 867: Wired Hands - A Brief Look at Robotics
- ... personal" robots now on the market, the most popular of which is HERO, manufactured by Heathkit. Looking like a plastic step-stool on wheels, HERO can lift objects with its one clawed arm and utter computer-synthesized speech. There's Hubot, too, which comes with a television screen face, flashing lights and a computer keyboard that pulls out from its stomach. Hubot moves at a pace of 30 cm per second and can function as a burglar alarm and a wake up service. Several years ago, the swank department ... that tell robots what to do". Software has indeed become increasingly sophisticated year by year. The Canadian weather service now employs a program called METEO which translates weather reports from English to French. There are computer programs that diagnose medical ailments and locate valuable ore deposits. Still other computer programs play and win at chess, checkers and go. As a results, robots are undoubtedly getting "smarter". The Diffracto company in ...
- 868: Violence in Media: You Are What You Watch
- Violence in Media: You Are What You Watch The rising tide of crime in North America exists primarily in the minds of the media. Television has created a perception that crime has multiplied, double or triple, in the past quarter-century due to violence. In fact, US Justice Department survey data shows, crime in the US has dropped 24 percent since 1971 and violent crime is down 2 percent. Crime statistics serve the media well. The single-minded reporting of violent news, the presentation of violent movies ...
- 869: The Media and the Fear of Victimization
- The Media and the Fear of Victimization Tonight's presenter spoke on the images of crime that are presented on television and the media and how they affect the public perception on being victimized. She gave examples of how the media has the tendency to often blow up a situation so as to make it appear as if the nation is in some great peril. For example if someone does a study on juvenile crime you can expect the media to focus on juvenile crime and incidents that may be occurring across the nation. Though the crime they are reporting is a portion of the normal crime that goes on everyday and almost unnoticed for the most part but ...
- 870: Individiual Understanding
- ... with me. The functionalists define a mental state strictly through its cause and effect relationships, through its function. This thinking leads to the conclusion that the human brain is little more than a big, complex computer. All we humans do is take input, process it, and accordingly create output, just like a computer. In fact, functionalists who support strong AI go so far as to say that an appropriately programmed computer actually has all the same mental states and capabilities as a human. In AMinds, Brains, and Programs,@ John Searle outlines this argument: AIt is a characteristic of human beings= story understanding capacity that they ...
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