A Conversation between Descartes and Searle

We as people rely on technology too much by expecting the machine to do something by the click of a button and get angry when the machinery isn’t working. At the beginning technology wasn’t thought of too much but at this point technology is getting people addicted from kids to the elderly.

When writing about a contradicting passage towards a certain subject, especially about the electronic devices, the author must include both possible arguments from both sides. However, in this writing, Richard Louv didn’t demonstrate any positive effects of technology , with evidence such as “Cash-strapped municipalities hope corporations agree to affix their company logo on parks…”, and “... the logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of “true” nature.” These two quotes from the passage structurized an opinionated view, it built a sense of bias by having the second quote

Descartes’ argue that mind is better known than body by first claiming humans as fundamentally rational, meaning “a thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is unwilling,” ( Descartes, 19) he therefore argues that humans have the ability to know their proper minds clearly and distinctly. He proposes the conception of the mind where the imagination and the senses are also inherent capabilities of the body (faculties), specifically powers of the mind.

Descartes's believed he could doubt everything that could be doubted, and the remainder was be the

There is a quote that comes from the book The Shallows that summed up my belief on the subject perfectly and that is from page 211 which states,” The price we pay to assume technology's power is alienation. The

In Meditation One: Concerning Those Things That Can Be Called into Doubt, Descartes reflects on everything he thought to be true as a child. He then goes on to

Subsequently, I will attempt to counter possible criticisms with a profounder understanding of Descartes' meaning in the “Meditations on the First Philosophy.” Finally, I will offer a concluding argument that I think correctly reflects and encapsulates my aversion towards Descartes' declaration, “I think, therefore I am.”

There are many different stances one could take on the subject “Unimpeded technological progress is good for society.”. One could agree with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, and Bradbury’s The Veldt and claim that technology is dangerous and will inevitably fall into the wrong hands one day. Another stance would be with Spike Jonze’s Her, which brings forth the opinion that technology is both good and bad. Finally, one’s opinion could lie with George Saunder’s “Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz” and claim technology is a good thing. While I can see where both Saunders and Kubrick are coming from, my own opinion is more closely represented by Jonze. I believe that technology can be both good and bad, and that its rapid growth can be both helpful and harmful to those around us.

Carr’s work, he worries that human brains are becoming simplified and replaced by technology. Due to this change, our concentration and determination will slowly fade away as time goes on. In this information era, people can enjoy the dazzling and decorated websites and passively accept their messages. He repeatedly emphasizes that humans’ abilities related to reading and imagining are largely disappearing. The author describes what it is like when he works by saying, “Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski” (Carr 410). Carr warns us of a possible negative change due to technology. Similarly, Mr. Pontin in the presentation also shows his concern about how humans treat technology. He argues that current technology, like energy and aerospace, has almost no commercial value that few companies are willing to invest in these fields. By contrast, he did present four negations on misunderstanding about the power of technology. He claims that the current problems blocking the development of technology are little policy supporting, failure of the political system, not understanding problems, and blindly thinking technology is the problem. The real concern he thought is that we have not had the eagerness and passion like the past to hugely go forward developing technology, but instead stopping to enrich our personal

Even if Descartes was cynical of everything, he could not have questioned whether thinking could exist without an “I” that does the thinking. This is because any attempt by an individual to doubt his or her existence as a thinking being is not possible since doubting involves thinking and therefore existing.

Mr. Kelly argues that, technologies new and old have helped humans throughout history. The use of technology has formed us and has become an extension of who we are as humans. I have to agree with his arguments. Technology provides opportunities, sometimes for a price, but we are always willing to pay it because we are naturally drawn to progression. Technology has helped humans evolve from small populations with high mortality rates to prosperous, growing overpopulated lands. Our optimistic views of the future and witnessed benefits from the use of technology, has left us with an addiction we willingly life with. Mr. Kelly said, “[Technology] is the most powerful force that has been unleashed on this planet, and in such a degree that I think that it 's become our -- who we are.”(Kelly)

For in Descartes terms, it was plausible to doubt that one has a body, but impossible to doubt the existence of one’s mind; therefore “…self and mind must be identical” (Palmer 162).

Descartes arrived at the idea that the mind is separate to the body through extreme doubt, stating in his book Discourse on the Method, ‘Cogito ergo sum’, which translates to ‘I think, therefore I am.’ Descartes argued that everyone is a Cartesian dualist – our conscious self is channelling everything else, and so appears to give us free will (Descartes,

His most famous saying was "I think, therefore I am", which meant that any thinking process proved one’s own existence. Rene Descartes developed an idea that anything can be solved with reason. He doubted previous convictions and tried to prove their validity through logic. Descartes also wanted to prove the existence of God and believe that it could be done by applying reason and mathematics. He believed that the physical world and the human mind are completely separate things, connected only through God. Although Descartes proved the existence of God, however, his doubt was an important step in indorsing reason over faith

phrase, cogito ergo sum or I think therefore I am, a phrase brought about by Rene Descartes. This phrase is the