5th Posting

Today was very very interesting, starting from the time I woke up. Today I woke up and felt like why do I have to wake up so early this is my summer? This is the first time I felt this from the day COSMOS started. Yet, as the day went on it became more and more enjoying. We had no guest speaker in the morning so that allowed me to be a little more awake in class. Christine gave us a lecture on the theory behind the Chinese Room. It stated this theory that a computer can never think and feel like a human can. Then we were given 3 main oppositions to this theory and we had to give a small presentation supporting the opposition. The 3 oppositions were: "system reply", "robot reply", and "other minds" reply. This was a great way to start the day and was a very interesting topic. This topic led straight to the topic we discussed later on in the day with Joe: Can a machine ever be created to be very similar to a human. After a very long and interesting discussion I think the whole class/ cluster came to decision that no matter what situation is set up there is no way of knowing in the future if machines and humans could be the same, no matter how advanced the technology.