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The mind body problem questions what is the nature of the mind and mental states? How are the mind and the body related? How are mental states related to brain states? Descartes says that there are two kinds of elements in the world, bodies and minds. Descartes believes in interactionism which means minds and bodies intermingle with one another. The Chinese Room Argument was introduced by philosopher John Searle. In this experiment He explains an encounter that a human has with a computer that…

Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron’s plot consists of a group of super-humans, “The Avengers,” who together destroy villains and are idolized as heroes. Over the course of the screenplay, “Iron Man”, an Avenger, creates an artificially intelligent, computerized system whose purpose is to rid the world of evil. Becoming intrigued as one of the smartest and most prestigious men in the world, Iron Man sees it fit to further innovate the system. Soon the artificial intelligence tries to exterminate…

Wind Ensemble. The music selections featured, as the name would suggest, primarily popular pieces, including movie themes and Broadway medleys. I will be evaluating the performance of the Concert Band. Their pieces included “Pippin”, “Jurassic Park”, “Alan Silvestri: A Night at the Movies”, and “Music from Pirates of the Caribbean”. The first piece performed was “Pippin”, an upbeat, jazzy medley arranged by Ralph Ford, of excerpts from the musical by the same name, with music and lyrics by…

A New Hope Directed by George Lucas and comic, The Watchmen by Alan Moore had one thing in common. In the comic novel and film, the “superhero" protagonists are white heterosexual men. Neither Princess Leia nor Laurie Juspeczyk have plot lines of their own instead they revolve around men. In The Watchmen and Star Wars: A New Hope both author and director are male and give their characters a male protagonist role. In The Watchmen, Alan Moore introduces his character Rorschach who prefers to use…

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a book written by Steven Levy about the early days and what he defined as “True Hackers”. This book starts off talking about the Tech Model Railroad Club in the 1950s all the way to the “Gamer Hackers” of the 1980s. It describes the different equipment that was used during the periods, the skills of the hackers, and the reasons they either became hackers or was interested in computers. Hackers in today’s society are not the same as in the 1950s.…

V for Vendetta is a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd (with additional art by Tony Weare), published by Vertigo. The story depicts a dystopian and post-apocalyptic near-future history version of the United Kingdom preceded by a nuclear war in the 1980s which has left most of the world destroyed. There was movie adaptation made in 2005 but changed some aspects so it would reach a larger audience. This essay will specifically be looking at the comparisons between…

The question of what consciousness is or what we can deem as to be conscious is most fiercely debated topic in this dissertation because its subjective nature; what you and I may consider to have its own consciousness may possibly or rather probably will be different, how then can we build a machine with its own conscience when we has humans still haven’t figured it what it even really means to be conscious. I think therefore I am This very famous statement written by French mathematician and…

very close to Toyota’s profit margin (19.92). Cause for the concerns is Ford’s leverage ratios that are greater than those for its competitors and industry. Ford’s debt-to-equity rate is 4.92 while industry average is 1.51. This is due mostly to CEO Alan Mulally’s decision to borrow $23.6 billion against the company’s assets in 2006, sensing an impending recession. This turned out to be a well-timed strategic decision. Mulally’s anticipation of a recession was correct and because if his swift…

“Siri, what’s the weather outside?” People today ask this question a lot. What they don’t usually think about is how Siri is able to comprehend what they are saying. This is just one way that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used today. In this example, the phone uses Natural Language Processing (which is a part of AI) to comprehend what the person is saying. The easy means of communication we know today would not be at our disposal without Artificial Intelligence. There are many parts to…

The Enigma of the 20th Century “Send the U-Boat to (51° 15' 43", -6° 45' 4"); attack at 15:00.” This could have been a message that was ciphered using a secret code during times of war. Cryptography, the study of securely coding messages, has been around for thousands of years (The Enigma Machine Explained). It started out with pencil-and-paper codes, made of substituting letters for each other in the alphabet. Then, there were more geometric codes, relying on using grids to write out messages…