Artificial Intelligence In Flowers For Algernon By Daniel Keyes

Before and after the A.I. surgery Before the A.I. surgery Charlie had a mental disorder were he couldn’t learn, read, or write. Charlie had a job at Donnegans factory. Everyone at the factory bullied him. “It’s a funny thing. I never knew that joe and frank and the others liked to have me around all the time to make fun of me. Now i know what it means when they say.” “You pulled a Charlie Gordon.” “I’m ashamed” (keyes,231.) After the A.I. surgery charlie didn’t get bullied at donnegans factory when he got his job back. Charlie was always getting bullied when he was younger and before the A.I. surgery.

Charlie had a very bad memory span before the operation and could not remember anything from his childhood. After Charlie has the operation preformed on him, he is able to recall memories from his past. Almost all of his childhood memories are ones he would probably rather forget and not have uncovered.

To begin, one of the biggest reasons that Charlie would’ve been better off having never gotten the surgery is so he wouldn’t have to deal with knowing what great intelligence is like, but then having to go back to being naïve and dumb again. In the story Flowers for Algernon, Keyes says, “I learned so much so fast. Now my mind is deteriorating rapidly. I won’t let it happen. I’ll fight it. I can’t help thinking of the boy in the restaurant, the blank expression, the silly smile, the people laughing at him. No- please- not that again…” (303) This shows that Charlie realizes his mental capabilities are deteriorating and

Have you ever wanted to be something else? Be something you dream of? In the story, Charlie Gordon , a mentally challenged man, is faced with this question in his mind and fulfills his dreams of becoming smart, so he could be accepted, to have friends, and feel normal. Charlie taught us to never make fun of someone because they have something wrong. In this science fiction story, ¨Flowers For Algernon¨ by Daniel Keyes, Charlie, a 37 year old man had the IQ of just 68, but Charlie had potential and dreams of being smart. With A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) surgery, the doctors, and Miss Kinnian, his dreams were possible. Charlie Gordonś life was better after the surgery because he had the chance to feel smart and experience the real world

As a consequence, having the operation created the chance for unpredictable and unwanted outcomes. Charlie was the first human patient for the experiment. Since the doctors have never tried the operation on a human being before, the chances for making mistakes are higher. This was proven as Algernon soon experiences side effects as his intelligence regresses and he eventually passes away. Soon, Charlie also regresses back to his original intelligence state. In conclusion, having the operation created unpredictable and unwanted outcomes. I inferred that Charlie wouldn’t die like Algernon did because the last line in the book in which he asks that someone puts flowers on Algernon's grave shows that he hasn't lost 100% of his memory of what happened. The fact that he remembers Algernon and his meticulous ritual of placing flowers on his grave shows that with repetition and reminders, he does have the capacity to recall details about the time he spent with intelligence. It's there somewhere in his subconscious, just like his childhood memories were before. While Charlie maintains most of his intelligence, 16 days after Algernon bit Charlie, Algernon died. And even after 13 days realizing his intelligence is regressing, he isn't showing signs of sickness, just showing that he is absentminded. Having all these different factors influenced all these different outcomes. In

Sometimes surgery can be necessary to save a life, while other times it is unecessary, and inhumane. Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man with an extremely low IQ of 68. He is introduced to a lab where they decide that they should test a surgery on Charlie that triples his IQ. This surgery was a mistake. Charlie Gordon shouldn’t have had the surgery to increase his IQ because the surgery is dangerous, the surgery could’ve, and did ware off, and Charlie would be overall happier without the surgery.

“I hope they use me. Miss Kinnian says maybe they can make me smart. I want to be smart” (Keyes 221). When given the opportunity to a life-changing operation, Charlie Gordon, Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes, was able to experience his life with his own self-worth. Throughout his 37 years of life, there has been the consistent struggle with his intellectual disability. With artificial intelligence, the events Gordon went through were positive. Most people could only dream of having the accessibility to artificial intelligence and experience just what Charlie did, even if it wasn’t forever. In comparison to society around this individual Charlie was viewed as dumb. That viewpoint drove a barrier between him and those around him. The experiment

In the modern world, patients expect their doctors to aid them and to support them. In the short story, “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur conducted an intelligence enhancement experiment on a man named, Charlie Gordon and changed his life. With an IQ of sixty-eight, the scientists altered him and tripled his IQ. However, this operation has not been ethical because the procedure was abstruse to Charlie, the doctors were rushing, and Dr. Nemur and Dr. Strauss were acting selfishly.

“Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes is a short story about an intellectually disabled 37 year old named Charlie Gordon. Charlie undergoes a surgery to triple his I.Q., which works temporarily, but wears off soon after. Charlie had many flaws in his life before and after the surgery, but when was he better off- before or after the surgery? Charlie Gordon was better off before his surgery because he was more interpersonal, generally happier, and did not have to live with the notion of having previous knowledge he lost and cannot regain.

If you had the chance to triple your current I.Q., would you consider the life changing opportunity of artificial intelligence? In the science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon, a man of 37, is unsatisfied with his mere I.Q. of 68. Charlie gets the chance of a lifetime to undergo a procedure that could potentially triple his I.Q. In the act of desperation of acceptance, Charlie happily accepts the offer. The life of Charlie Gordon significantly improved after the operation of artificial intelligence. The aftermath of the surgery resulted in many benefits to Charlie such as maturing him, the development of new emotions, and even helped him learn more than an

“One thing? I, like: about, Dear Miss Kinnian…is that, she: always; gives me’ a reason” when—I ask” (Keyes 39). In the novel Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, Keyes uses the trajectory of Alice’s change in character to indicate the demeaning and impressionable roles played by women in society. In addition to literary examples presented in the novel, Keyes includes an excerpt from Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” to emphasize the connection between Alice/Miss Kinnian’s role in the novel and the common woman’s leadership role in society. Although Alice and Miss Kinnian are the same character, they serve different purposes in the plot. Miss Kinnian is present pre-operation and represents Charlie’s need for mental improvement, which she motivates him to achieve. Alice, however, comes about post-operation and serves as a motivation for Charlie’s need for emotional improvement. This is related to the roles of women in society because in Charlie’s perspective, Miss Kinnian symbolizes women 's leadership through her knowledge and skill. However, as Charlie begins to gain knowledge and is able to identify himself as the leader, Miss Kinnian becomes “Alice” and she changes to symbolize the more common roles of women: sympathizers and pleasers.

After the surgery, he saw the negativity and the reality of the world. Also, he was filled with loneliness and was heartbroken as a result of the increase of his intelligence. All in all, Charlie would have

Would you take the chance to get a higher I.Q.? Yes you would get good grades and pass the test, but you would have trouble communicating with other people. You would have trouble having “normal” conversations. In this science fiction story “Flowers for Algernon,”by Daniel Keyes, Charlie Gordon gets A.I. surgery to increase his I.Q. of 68. Charlie should not have the A.I. surgery. After Charlie got the A.I. surgery, he got depression, he started to give up, and he had emotional breakdowns. This is why Charlie Gordon should NOT have the A.I.

The book Flowers For Algernon is about a 37-year-old man named Charlie who is not the sharpest bulb in the barrel. He couldn’t write or speak correctly, so he went to a night school for slow adults. Charlie was recommended for a surgery that would triple his IQ, but the scientists in the book didn't know if the surgery was permanent or not. The book was written in 1951, while the movie was made 49 years later in the 2000s. Since Flowers for Algernon is a fictional story, artificially enhanced intelligence isn’t a real thing yet. Science has come a long way from lobotomies and cocaine used for sodas and cough syrup. Now, scientists have already created a clone of a sheep named Dolly and selective breeding for fish. If scientists cannot better intelligence with a surgery, they might be able to do it with machinery. With science trying to better people's brains with machines or a surgery, some may ask if it is ethically correct.

What if you could get brain surgery to become smarter? In the Algernon-Gordon effect, a mouse and a human get a surgery done without knowing the long term effects. Charlie Gordon, the main character in the short story “Flowers for Algernon”, shouldn’t have done the operation to make him more intelligent because he was much happier before, he didn’t know the long term effects, and because he was changing as an individual.