09.18.2017
- MOC. “Entrophy” was mentioned quite often in the passage, and my understanding is that it meant “randomness” and or “Sporadicness” and my question is “can information be truly random?” Entrophy relates to communication theory and how it should be associated with the amount of freedom of choice we have in constructing messages but do we really have this so-called freedom when it is given to us at random. In computation, isn’t randomness theory, Nothing is ever purely random, We as humans can get close to randomness but never achieve its aura. Its the doppelganger of “perfection”, it can never truly never be achieved, no one can truly be perfect as to someone can never truly be random. Kind of unclear on this subject on enthrophy and how it relates back to “free-will”.(Descartes?). Is there randomness in our society today? its seems to be more organized and controlled on how we receive our information, especially in the past with propaganda in other nations.
- CM&I. NERVOUS SYSTEM. I agree with the agreement with that a computer can not mimic a “nervous system”. With its fragileness and delicate nature to mimic it only would end in failure for the computing machine. I feel as there are things beyond our knowledge of a nervous system that even humans can not understand. Even with machines being an expression of humanism, even our prodigies (computers) cannot reach the status of the Bio-realms. I don’t know if this is exactly what was being portrayed in the Nervous system paragraph but this thought branched from the idea of a nervous system being replicated and or mimic. Being the nervous system is a not a discrete-state machine I’d agree with the statement of a machine not being able to mimic it down to a tee.
- Quote: “If each man had a definite set of rules of conduct by which he regulated his life he would be no better than a machine. But there are no such rules, so men cannot be machines”. I know this is just a representation of an argument but this statement seems to go both ways. There seems to be no right or wrong. In one sense, with laws that man/woman have made up for themselves( humanic systems) one could say that man could be a machine and vice versa. Presently, It doesn’t seem far-fetched that “men” can be machines” and I would say that humans are on the verge of being able to make machines more and more human-like day by day. Just wanted to hear everyone’s opinion on this matter.
