random post

stuff i wanna get finished in this week.

- Get dual blade to 70 by Monday
- Get other accs to get resistance capsule
- Make wild hunter for resistance

- Look for a way to do commentary.
- Make CoD map pointers and stuff
- Prestige and do work.

- think of a gift for omar and melanie.
- make a -2010 im grateful status-
- Make a new years resolution for school
- Make a schedule plan for spring semester and stuff

Final blog post

Some advice that l would tell to a future student who is taking Eng103 is to do all the milestones, pay attention in class. Never ever be lazy, in the class from experience, don't even have procrastination habits. Your procrastination habits need to go away. Do everything your told to do. This class is alot harder than I expected because I never wrote a 6 page research paper and it kinda overwhelmed me. Some things I would have done differently, was put effort into the class. I was too already overwhelmed with my other college classes so the class kinda added to it. I highly advise a future student to learn how to use LexisNexis and Jstor because I know before starting out this class, all I relied on was wikipedia and google. Those sites are unscholarly and unprofessional and unreliable, so its better to getting to know how to use other scholarly sites.

Critical Thinking Blog Assignment #1

  Sup my cluster fellow peers. I'm Kevin, I'm Filipino and taking the cluster course in hopes of becoming a better thinker and viewer of the world. No career plans for me so far but I'm still finding out what I wanna do. I don't think I'm optimistic or pessimistic but a little bit of both. I believe they both have their pros and cons on the currently present and future. Artificial Intelligence is rapidly growing and can potentially be a gift or a threat to humanity. Technology helps humans with so many convenient stuff today that it's the trend ,a competition who can have a superior technology than another. That's one of the reason I feel a little optimistic about. But what I feel pessimistic is that, what if robots eventually take over humanity? (As seen in the movie The Matrix). Humanity can be lost due to that robots will acquire strong AI. Another reason I feel pessimistic is that what about economic wise? Will it take over regular everyday human jobs? It can potentially leave humans with no paying job to support themselves.
                          No doubt that Ray Kurzweil is optimistic person about the technology developing in the future. I do agree with him and disagree him. I agree with him that the pace of technology is evolving rapidly and making everyday human life much more easier and convenient. He states that, " I pointed out above that machines will match and quickly exceed peak human skills in each area of skill." (Kurzweil 140).

Critical Thinking Blog Assignment #5

So without a doubt, I do feel like after all the readings and imaginative texts and the Eng101 class in general, and the cluster as well, I feel like my writing has leveled up dramatically. I didn't think I would be able to write some essays and still have room to improve on them. The essays I have read, did open my eyes on the underlying issues that can possibly happen in the future such as Runaway AI, human cloning and robotics. Those issues will eventually affect me. My thinking for science definitely did increase my interest and my small love, to big love for humanities and social sciences. I definitely do wish to take on more of this and increase my knowledge and hope to put good use. I think one of the essays that mind blown me was, Churchill's essay on "The Number" because I never thought about having a son in the future and happen to clone him like 20 times and that it would raise ethics issues. Also the story also taught me how, one's actions can definitely affect others and that it will be back to haunt you and ruin your life. Sometimes I feel like my writing is inconsistent, one day it may be extremely good and on point, and the next day I feel like I blank out a lot and just write a bunch of run on sentences, but otherwise, the cluster class has changed my writing style a lot. Another thing that mind blown me on the cluster was that movies can be looked at a different way. I used to think it was all about entertainment and seeing all the action clips, but after hearing about The Matrix film relating to Philosophy and The Island as human cloning, I feel like I can now see movies from a humanist/social scientist point of view which is incredibly amazing.

Critical Thinking Blog Assignment #4

Imaginative text usually portrays a issue. Imaginative texts like Churchill's story called "The Number" is about a play showing how natural human desire by Salter to make up for his past wrongs by cloning his songs. Things do not go as planned and there is a tragic ending. The play presents a issue about either nature or nurture. Churchill did a great job in describing as to what would happen if you clone your own son and the personal problems that would arise. The ending is very tragic. He writes " Salter- I miss him so much, Michael- there's 19 of us more. Salter- That's not the same" (Churchill 199). This quote talks about how Salter lost B1 and B2 due to his bad decisions and mistakes and how he regrets dearly for what he has done. The play shows " is it okay to have human cloning?" From my personal opinion and as a humanist, I believe it is unethical because just looking at the Churchill's story it's very possible to have 20 sons by mistake and only love one of them and not even the original. Salter ruined his life for what he did. He says " I didn't feel l'd lost him when l sent him away because l had the second chance. And when the second one my son the second son was murdered it wasn't so bad as you'd think because it seemed fair. I was back with the first one(Churchill 198). In this quote, Churchill is talking about how Salter he doesn't feel as bad when he lost the other son but it was very tragic for him. This quote in my opinion is an example of the possibilities of unethical human cloning because, how would you feel if you were to not care if 6 of your own sons were murdered and you still continue to love  the other clones as if you don't care? So I do think imaginative text does raise questions if it's ethical or human or not, and if it's alright to clone humans. Churchill leaves it up to the reader to decide whether it's human or not to human clone which I said earlier, that I do believe it's inhuman to do so.

Critical Thinking Assignment Blog #3

          In human cloning, it's very controvsial debate as it has many pros and cons to it in the future. I do think in my own opinion it's very negative to the community espescially after reading Churchill's article called, "The Number". Human cloning is like a promise and peril or at least in Ray Kurzweil, he believes its promise. He wrote a article called "The Singularity is Near". The article shows how he's very optimsitic about it in the future. He shows that human cloning is the very least interesting application in cloning technology. Kurzweil writes " Cloning  will be a key technology- not for cloning actual humans but for life extension purposes in the form therapetuic cloning" (Kurzweil 121). In this quote, he says that not actual humans will be replicas but they will be used as a way to increase the life of humans so that they can live longer. Kurzweil shows that his positiveness in human cloning in the future for sure. Kurzweil also believes that a perfect way to make use of cloning is using it to perserve animal species. He states, "another exciting application is re-creating animals from endangered species. By cryo preserving cells from these species, they never need become extinct. It will eventually be possilbe to re create animals from recently extinct species" (Kurzweil 122). In this quote, he talks about using the use of human cloning and turn it into animal cloning and that we can use this idea to perserve animals from being completely extinct and to save a animal race. In the article called " A Number" is written by Churchill, a story about a father having alot of clones as sons and he really likes one of the clones instead of the original son. He loses all of his sons because of his aggorance and his bad mistakes and decisions. Churchill really shows the faults of human cloning and his thoughts. He writes " Salter- I didnt feel I'd lost him when l sent him away because l had the second chance. And When the second one my son the second son was murdered it wasn't so bad as you'd think because it seemed fair. I was back with the first one. Now he's killed himself and now l've lost him, I can't put right any more (Churchill 198). In this quote, Churchill shows how a father can lose it all with his carelessness and his love for one son and not the others. It really shows the downfalls of human cloning your own son. Churchill also shows how a father can really miss his sons dearly. He writes, " Salter- I miss him so much, I miss them both. - Micheal, there's 19 more of us. Salter- That's not the same" ( Churchill 199). In this quote, he talks about how Salter misses both of his first and second son, and Micheal points out that he has more sons just like him, and Salter feels that it isn't the same way and that it's different from loving his original and second son.
               One of the film clips that points out human cloning is a real issue is the movie called " The Island". ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtyC3jFh6eM ). This movie is very interesting to me because, it's filled with action and it shows how bad human cloning can be. The film actually fills out Churchill's point alot more on the complicated issue. I think the movie really shows that you can't even tell the difference between the original and the clone person. Also human cloning in the movie looks unethical and can be very possible if we keep human cloning in the future as well.
         

Critical Thinking Assignment Blog #2

              Artificial Intelligence something that is growly rapidly for some time now. It really is a controvestrioal debate about it's pros and cons for the present and the future. Of course there are writers who show their point of view such as Ray Kurzweil who is very optimistic about AI in the future and David Gelerneter who is pessmesstic about AI in the future in a economic point of view.One of the bigger inventions that is extremely interesting up to today, is robotics. Ray Kurzweil wrote a article called "The Singularity is Near" telling how he believes the age of robotics will soon surpass human skills. He's very optimistic about robots in the future. He states, " I pointed out above that machines will match (and quickly exceed) peak human skills in each area of skill"( Kurzweil 140). In this quote, it shows how optimistic he is about robots in the future and that mechanical beings similar to humans will outclass them in areas of skill. Kurzweil talks about runaway AI and pointing out that humans do have intelligence limits while robotics have unlimited (Kurzweil 140). He believes confidently that we should be expanding robotics intelligence instead since you cant do it to humans. Kurzweil shows how opimsitics he is about having strong AI or possibility in consciousness. He states, that " Once we've succeeded in creating machine that can pass the Turing Test around 2029, the succeeding period will be an era of consolidation in which nonbiological intelligence will make rapid gains" (Kurzweil 141). He believes that once a robot is made to be no different from a human, it will be a sign that the robotics age will be hitting it's prime and be very sucessful. With David Gelernter wrote a article called " Dream-Logic, the Internet and Artificial Thought" saying how he disagrees with robotics having a consciousiness in the future. He states "No Computer will be creativer unless it can simulate all the nuances of human emotion" (Gelernter 205). What he is talking about is that, he fully disagrees with robotics in the future and that no robotic will be able to have true emotions like a human can have. He states " Emotion summarizes experience" (Kurzweil 141). In this quote, he talks about how robotics can't have emotions because they don't have experience of the world, they're just programmed machines.