Human voice

from the man-made sentience Project 2501 in Ghost in the Shell (1995) serve as a warning to society. The proliferation of technology in the modern world has accompanied discussions regarding the implications of increasingly advanced technology for human civilization. Many writers and filmmakers have contributed to such discourse using science fiction literature to illustrate issues that might arise with our rapid shift towards a high-tech society, as well as to explore essential philosophical…

We live in a generation where smartphones are at our fingertips, and we have technology such as iPads, laptops, tablets right at our fingertips. It is like the air we breathe, and the water we drink.It is always there; that is why human beings cannot live without technology, especially among the young generation. Sure technology can have some negative effects on youth; but the amount of benefits and advantages has a lot more positive, when it comes to the growth of technology that will later…

Technology Technology is becoming a huge part in societies today and is steadily growing around the world. Most of the time technology is intended to do good for people, but other times, technology creates problems, and can lead to negative outcomes. Humans have become very dependent on technology and that dependency will only grow as time moves on. While the people described in “The Machine Stops” and the people today can be compared through a discussion of the technology available to…

from the same place in evaluating the necessity of a contract between parties, but it is within the implications of their ideas of competition that the two philosophers diverge in notions of politics and morality. Kant, speaking with a teleological voice akin to Aristotle’s, posits that once a social contract is created amongst the people and their sovereign,…

responsibilities. The monster kills three different people himself but also indirectly kills two other people and he is morally responsible for his own actions. The monster displays three key characteristics that John Locke associated with being a human being and these are: self-awareness, reason and memory. The monster displays all of these attributes, therefore making him…

and technology, human has an ever-increasing living standard . As such, numerous products have been created to meet our constantly generating demands in different aspect of lives. In order to examine the quality of the products, animal testing are widely applied in multiple industries, and it seems that animal testing is inevitable for the sake of human. In definition, “animal testing” refers to the procedures which performed on living animals for various purposes of testing the human health…

The distinction between humans and animals in fact depends upon humans, as only beings that possess reason can be reasonable, and only those with such an ability that then fail to be temperate are reduced to a subhuman being. Human status is reached “not merely through struggle within the individual but also through the struggle between individuals,” and Lear relies on diminishing his daughters in order to maintain supremacy (Fudge 67). Lear emphasizes his daughter’s vices by comparing their…

self. The two papers we have read hold very true to the ideas of human authenticity. But, Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone Together” holds a greater threat to human authenticity than Lauren Slater’s essay “Who Holds the Clicker?” In Turkle’s essay, she talks about the idea of “anthropomorphism.” Anthropomorphism is taking something like an animal or an object and finding human characteristic within them. In this case, she talks about human characteristics found in robots. In today’s society people…

cult like traits, and that the lines between these followings could be easily defined by terms as simple as the leadership, human treatment, and patterns of logic. The case can be made, however, that no religion is entirely innocent, and that Christianity, though it is assumed the perfect model, can be referenced as being lead by a man put in the position as essentially the voice of god, has a widely acknowledged history of abusive behavior, and that the followers of this theological…

the existence of a creature, as colonialism was dealing with the effects on cultures and societies. The creature was created by old body parts as an incarnation that was different in appearance than a human. He tried to be part of society; having the same inherent, inalienable rights as a human. He had the right to have a mate, the right to learn, and the right…