Week 3 Blog Reviews

Group 2 Blog Reviews

Kayla Smith

I really enjoyed reading your writings this past week, especially the one title “Class Discussion” for September 10th. I completely agree with you, because I also totally disagree with Marvin Minsky. I mean, it was a pretty interesting essay to read, but the brain really is more complex than we even know. And yes, biological features like consciousness cannot just be placed into a machine – this seems impossible!

Good posts :)

Jessica Tavizon

I also really enjoyed reading your post on Marvin Minksy’s essay. You proved a great point – humans are the ones who created machines in the first place. So true, we are the ones placing that information into the computer, therefore not making it a genuine functioning machine. I thought that was a great point.

Your other post, on Robert M. Hazen’s “The Great Unknown” I really found interesting. Your example about Jack and Jill was a great way to explain your point. I honestly do not think that science can fully explain why we feel such emotions in our hearts. It seems that nowadays we need science in order to explain EVERYTHING. Why can’t we just stick to the simple answers, like we feel those emotions because we are human??

Good posts :)

Unfortunately, Erin Lyng did not have any assignments posted for me to read.

Oh, and I wanted to let you guys know, I have classes pretty much all day on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so my posts usually are posted a day or so earlier than the due date. I just thought I’d let you guys know in case it was confusing to figure out which posts you needed to read!