Critical Thinking Blog Post #5

     When I thought about writing my midterms, I wanted to take the easy way out and was hoping to get topics related to technology, so it would be easier for me. To be honest it has been a really good learning experience for me. Learning about Darwin and these humanistic values like altruism, it makes one think quite a bit on how humans really are. I agree with Darwin that humans are not always generous or altruistic as he says. After going through different text that we have in our course pack the two that really caught my attention about this topic are, “Us and Me” by Ian McEvan and The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins. These two texts were really good for me to support my point and give reasons to why I agree with Darwin. In the article, “The Selfish Gene,” I write on the fact that humans have selfish genes, already existing in them. So when it comes to survival humans tend to be selfish and that’s something we cannot change, because it’s what within us. This text helped me to right that in certain circumstances, why we act selfish. Depending on the level of risk, humans choose how to act and decide what to do in these situations. It’s not that we humans have no altruistic values in them at all; it’s just that we prioritize the level of survival and chances of reproduction in these harsh situations. On the other hand “Us and Me,” humans first reaction sis generosity but after calculation survival chances we seem to forget about being altruistic in those situations. Darwin makes it obvious how survival of the fittest takes places, yet defining at the very same time how genes and different traits help us to survive. Though we sometimes way survival and reproductions, it’s cannot be ignored that altruism is indeed part of us.

Critical Thinking Blog Post # 4

      The clip I chose to write about robots is, Bionics: Robotics for Medicine. The reason I chose to write about this is the fact that, we might feel a sense of threat from robots but this video helps us to highlight some of the positive or help that we can get through robots. To many people robots indeed bring forward a sense of discomfort. Robots have become so close to taking over the things that humans have mostly done so far. People might find it threatening to different jobs, yet at the very same time it shows how much humans have advanced. Having a robot that looks just like human is scary for many people still. Some of us look at the positive side and think that robots are helping in many different ways.

     On the other hand there are some who think to a point that there will be a time when robots will take over. I believe that it’s quite possible. When I look at the 1930s and the world fair, we set forward certain dreams and goals. We didn’t look much at the consequences it held. And now one of the hottest debates is on global warming and how much cars and our waste is contributing to it. Dreaming yet not realizing the consequences that certain dream holds. Robots will bring great benefits and convenience in our life styles or in the times of need, but watching these video clips like matrix and terminator we can see the consequences it comes with. They will bring fast growth and great help, but we still don’t know what we are getting ourselves into. Many people will bring forward criticism on the use of robots, but in the end we can only predict. Leaving it on time, how much of a use robots are and what their future really is.