The Robots Rebellion

“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.” Don Marquis explains the superiority of reason over instinct. Without reason, many of the things people choose wouldn’t be logical, and can lead to devastating consequences. Generally, reason can lead to positive, or at least logical decisions. Reason undeniably overrules instinct because of the logical choices, reliability, and the wider variety of possibilities it can result in.

The first area was the availability heuristic section. There were two biases that indicated whether or not you were making the right decision. The first was ease of recall, or the fact that we tend to decide things based on what comes to mind easily. The second was retrievability, the fact that we base decisions on the frequency of a particular pattern or event. We base many of our decisions on these two concepts.

During the Enlightenment, the topics of rational thinking, logic, and how those ideas affected individuals' actions were widely debated, and they are still controversial today. Although humans believe that decisions are based on rational thinking, recent studies have found that the opposite is true. Humans are more influenced by their emotions than logic due to the overpowering characteristic of feelings, and the inability to make decisions without them.

Pelarsen Windows is in its third generation, founded initially in 1922 by Gunnar Pelarsen and now run by granddaughter and CEO Ingrid Pelarsen. The 1990s was an era of craftsmanship. One of the noted success factors for Pelarsen Windows at the time was its transition from craft to mass production. Pelarsen was a mover in streamlining the windows manufacturing process by standardizing the various components, allowing windows to be assembled in larger volumes and at remote locations. Another one of its key success factors was its innovative products such as insulated glass, solar heating and cooling, and energy efficient windows. Due to its innovative capabilities, Pelarsen Windows

How many times have we heard the saying “follow your heart” or people following their “guts” when making a decision? Soldiers in time of war are successfully recorded to use their instincts or “guts”, while engaged in life-threatening situations, in order to minimize life loss. A mom, “instinctively” knows when her child is feeling discomfort, without much need for words. Consecutively, expert chess players can predict how a game will end, by the mere look at pictures of a game. However, news reports in the States show policemen wrongfully shooting down suspects, while making snap judgments; more so, a tendency in judging the right job applicant, regardless of

We tend to ignore the final outcome of a decision and focus on the certainty or uncertainty of it. The value we place on winning and losing vary, which is what the Prospect Theory suggests. The Prospect Theory is a model that psychologists created to explain our behavior when it comes to decision making and how we make decisions. Typically, if a decision has to do with a gain, people will lean towards the most certain option because they may fear that if they selected the other option that would be disappointed. On the other hand, decisions that have to do with loses are seen as the opposite by the majority of people. This is because we feel more risky when selecting the uncertain option over the certain option because we are trying to avoid a significant loss. The Prospect Theory provides an explanation on how people make choices under strained conditions of gains and losses in their applications of the real

Phillip had gathered up his things and then left the records department electing to go outside and have a seat on the building’s front steps as he waited for Russell to pick him back up. Thirty minutes later when Russell finally did arrive, he was irritated and looking exhausted. “Come on, get in,” he sniped at Phillip as he seemed to be becoming ever increasingly impatient. “What’s your problem?” Phillip countered as he tried stuffing his backpack down onto the floor of Russell’s transport. “Oh, nothing,” Russell retorted. “I just spent half the day down at the transportation department while their obsolete and never updated robotic inspectors failed my transport three times for inspection. Failed not because there was ever anything wrong with my transport come to find out, but because the software installed in their inspecting robots was out-of-date. Plus, I still haven’t been able to

Intuitive decision making can be greatly influenced by biases and psychological traps. Jennifer Priestley and William Hakes in their paper titled “Problem Solving and Psychological Traps,” explained five such traps.

As humans, we spend little or no time processing the constant bombardment of information around us. We don’t have time to process everything, so we develop these mental shortcuts. We tend to follow our feelings, even if we don’t admit doing so. We always respond more to gut instincts, intuition, and other emotionally based triggers than we do to logic and reasoning. We just want to feel right about things. We are emotional, subconscious decision makers with a bit of logic. The following two techniques will provide the rational support

Now I will provide examples demonstrating how the irrationality problem is actually about emotions and perceptual experiences. I will start by evaluating an example of a timeless pre-school lesson and life-long relevant principle: it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.

Irrational beliefs are some things we all come across in our lives, it can come from an experience or situation we tend to believe those irrational belief perspectives. This paper will analyze some of my current irrational beliefs in my life and how they have shaped some of the things I believe in currently from my perspective. This paper will also use a technique from this course to challenge this belief. Let’s first look at the definition of what irrational belief is. Irrational beliefs are attitudes, beliefs standards that an individual sturdily holds despite objective suggestion, it is usually available and understood, to the contrary. Such beliefs can be upheld by intrapersonal cognitive structures, occasionally founded on uncommon occurrences.

The behavior and attitudes of people determine a lot of the decisions that they make (Lessing, 1987). The society is willing to accept or entertain the irrational beliefs, thus, the society 's attitude towards irrational decisions influences a lot on the way individual think and act.

Technology has been growing throughout the years, always changing and evolving in all new ways. It has become almost a second nature to us by now, to use technology on anything and everything. We use technology for the smallest things, such as looking up the recipe for your next meal, or the name of an actor, or just to check up on a friend. It seems to be that the more technology develops, the more addicted and the more dependent we become. If one were to analyze and really think about how many times we use technology a day, we will start to realize how much it has consumed us. Just think about how many times a day you see someone on their phone, or on a computer. You will start to realize how addicted we are. It’s so common for us to

With space travel being a topic much looked at since the middle of the 20th century, it is only inevitable that man has already entered space and taken that step into space travel. However, even though man has done so before, it does not necessarily man should continue to do what can be done by the technological advantages of this age; robots. Having the ability to send exclusively robotic missions into space provides many advantages that a human accompanied mission could not also have claim to, one obvious variation being in the safety of a robotic mission versus a manned mission. Humans are fragile when it comes to being put into environments other than their own (Colwell & Britt, n.d.) and there are a lot of physical health setbacks. When in zero-g in space, human bodies face many changes such as a sudden height increase, and even face a weakening of the bones that can later lead to bones breaking much easier from even small accidents (“Manned or Unmanned?”, 2001). Humans also face the risk of being exposed to radiation when there is no atmosphere surrounding them to protect them (“Manned or Unmanned?”, 2001) and the temperatures of different planets and elements of space make it nearly impossible for a human to be able to travel to certain places (Colwell & Britt, n.d). Robots, however, do not face this kind of setback and are much more tolerant to the environment outside of earth’s atmosphere. Human lives are also at risk when in space, and can be lost very quickly due

The robots stared at a broken city, which they created. They did not care, though, they ruled it. Zyth and Zythia, pure evil. It all started just a short seven years ago when super intelligent robots were first introduced to the public. This city bought two of the most intelligent robots and range of worker bots which I could only perform one job well. The civilians of this large city became too dependent on the robots and soon they took them for granted. Somehow, the robots sensed the distaste towards them, hatred. They couldn 't help themselves, all the civilians must die.