Spike Jonze’s film “Her” explores the romantic relationship between Samantha, an intelligent computer operating system personified through a female voice, and Theodore Twombly, a lonely, introverted, depressed man who works for a business that has professional writers composing letters for people who are unable to write letters themselves. Though Samantha is not a human, the computer operating system develops the feelings of love and heartbreak, the long need for a human body, and is perplexed by her own evolution of gaining those emotions. She has a rich inner life, complete with experiences and sensations. The film “Her” raises a few questions. Are computer operating systems like Samantha capable of consciousness or at least in theory, if
Andy Clark strongly argues for the theory that computers have the potential for being intelligent beings in his work “Mindware: Meat Machines.” The support Clark uses to defend his claims states the similar comparison of humans and machines using an array of symbols to perform functions. The main argument of his work can be interpreted as follows:
Her struggles are of a flower trying to blossom in a pile of garbage. Growing up in the poor side of the southside of Chicago, Mexican music blasting early in the morning or ducking from the bullets flying in a drive-by shooting. Julia solace is found in her writing, and in her high school English class. Mr. Ingram her English teacher asks her what she wants out of life she cries “I want to go to school. I want to see the word” and “I want so many things sometimes I can’t even stand it. I feel like I’m going to explode.” But Ama doesn’t see it that way, she just tells, Julia, she is a bad daughter because she wants to leave her family. The world is not what it seems. It is filled with evil and bad people that just want to her hurt and take advantage of
Computers are well known for their ability to perform computations and follow a list of instructions, but can a computer be a mind? There are varying philosophical theories on what constitutes a mind. Some believe that the mind must be a physical object, and others believe in dualism, or the idea that the mind is separate from the brain. I am a firm believer in dualism, and this is part of the argument that I will use in the favor of Dennett. The materialist view however, would likely not consider Hubert to be a mind. That viewpoint believes that all objects are physical objects, so the mind is a physical part of a human brain, and thus this viewpoint doesn’t consider the mind and body as two separate things, but instead they are both parts of one object. The materialist would likely reject Hubert as a mind, even though circuit boards are a physical object, although even a materialist would likely agree that Yorick being separated from Dennett does not disqualify Yorick as a mind. If one adopts a dualism view and accept the idea that the mind does not have to be connected to a physical object, then one can make sense of Hubert being able to act as the mind of Dennett. The story told to us by Dennett, is that when the switch is flipped on his little box attached to his body, the entity that controls Dennett, changes to the other entity. Since the switches are not labeled, it is never known which entity is
Mary and Max tells the heart warming tale of a lonely 8 year old girl from Australia and a 44 year old man plagued by Aspergers and anxiety who are able to develop a friendship through writing letters. Mary Daisy Dinkle loves three things: her pet rooster, sweetened condensed milk, and the Noblets, a children’s tv show. With parents absent from her life and the kids at school bullying her for her birthmark, Mary is only able to find solace in someone thousands of miles away. Max Jerry Horowitz also loves Noblets, chooses the same lottery tickets every time and suffers from anxious overeating and not being able to understand others due to his Aspergers. While Mary’s demand for advice is often a heavy burden, Max is still grateful for his only friendship with Mary. After premiering at the Sundance festival in 2009, Mary and Max went on to receive a few small awards within its own genre. Despite its lack of international success, Mary and Max has still been able to grip the hearts of those who have viewed it. With not only holding a unique entertainment factor, but also a gripping message, it is important to analyze what makes Adam Elliot’s Mary and Max such a powerful film.
Oscar winner and critically acclaimed movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a romantic science-fiction comedy-drama film about a divided couple who have erased each other from their memories. However only when the protagonist Joel Barish realizes that he does not want to continue with the process, we embark on a spectacular journey that explores the nature of memory and romantic love. The protagonist of the movie, played by Jim Carrey, is the individual we will be assessing today. Joel Barish is a weak person. As described by himself, he doesn't lead a very interesting life. He goes to work, comes home, that's about it. He has a lot of emotions but doesn't unleash them onto the world, instead he puts his emotions in his hands and draws very strange yet wonderful pictures. He is the living representation of “NORMAL”. His life is developed through the story in the New York, USA of 2003. Although it is not very focused on, Joel Barish works at an ordinary job and has a very distinctive artistic skill, which he keeps to himself. He is neither rich nor poor, but simply
Andi Anderson (Kate Hudson) is a beautiful, young, and successful writer who maintains a “How-To” section in “Composure” magazine. Her dream is to “write about things that matter, like politics and the environment, and foreign affairs- things I’m interested in.” (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, time stamp 02:00). She knows that the only way she will eventually be able to write about subjects she’s passionate about is to be successful in writing her superficial “How-To” section in the magazine.
The Notebook (Cassavetes, 2004) is a love story about a young couple named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who fall deeply in love with each other. The Hamilton’s are financially stable, and expect for their daughter Allie to marry someone with the same wealth. Noah on the other hand works as a laborer, and comes from an underprivileged family. Throughout the film there were several negative behaviors, and interpersonal communications within the context of their relationship, which relates to chapter nine. This chapter explores relationships, emphasizing on affection and understanding, attraction, and the power of a relationship. The focus of this paper is the interpersonal conflict with Noah, Allie and her mother, Anne Hamilton.
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She continues in this sequel to talk about the abuse she faced and the dysfunction that surrounded her life as a child and as a teen, and the ‘empty space’ in which she lived in as a result. She talks about the multiple personalities she was exhibiting, the rebellious “Willie” and the kind “Carol”; as well as hearing noises and her sensory problems. In this book, the author puts more emphasis on the “consciousness” and “awareness” and how important that was for her therapeutic process. She could not just be on “auto-pilot” and act normal; the road to recovery was filled with self-awareness and the need to process all the pieces of the puzzle—often with the guidance and assistance of her therapist. She had a need to analyze the abstract concept of emotions as well as feelings and thoughts. Connecting with others who go through what she did was also integral to her
Artificial Intelligence is a term not too widely used in today’s society. With today’s technology we haven’t found a way to enable someone to leave their physical body and let their mind survive within a computer. Could it be possible? Maybe someday, but for now it’s just in theory. The novel by William Gibson, Neuromancer, has touched greatly on the idea of artificial intelligence. He describes it as a world where many things are possible. By simply logging on the computer, it opens up a world we could never comprehend. The possibilities are endless in the world of William Gibson.
Today many women are stereotyped in their jobs and social roles as defined by society as a whole. William Gibson's Neuromancer where one woman is used for specific reasons. The female character, Molly, is used for sex and her body is used for other sexual performances. In this book we find numerous examples of how she is being used sexually and how she must act in her job to survive. The author uses horrific examples that are related to how some women are treated today. The feminist approach is used throughout this book because of how the character Molly is being treated.
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The traditional notion that seeks to compare human minds, with all its intricacies and biochemical functions, to that of artificially programmed digital computers, is self-defeating and it should be discredited in dialogs regarding the theory of artificial intelligence. This traditional notion is akin to comparing, in crude terms, cars and aeroplanes or ice cream and cream cheese. Human mental states are caused by various behaviours of elements in the brain, and these behaviours in are adjudged by the biochemical composition of our brains, which are responsible for our thoughts and functions. When we discuss mental states of systems it is important to distinguish between human brains and that of any natural or artificial organisms which is said to have central processing systems (i.e. brains of chimpanzees, microchips etc.). Although various similarities may exist between those systems in terms of functions and behaviourism, the intrinsic intentionality within those systems differ extensively. Although it may not be possible to prove that whether or not mental states exist at all in systems other than our own, in this paper I will strive to present arguments that a machine that computes and responds to inputs does indeed have a state of mind, but one that does not necessarily result in a form of mentality. This paper will discuss how the states and intentionality of digital computers are different from the states of human brains and yet they are indeed states of a mind resulting from various functions in their central processing systems.
What is this ecstasy? . . . What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa. . . For there she was” (1994). And there she will always be, forever bound in his memory, just as he is forever tied into hers, together creating their true identities.
In the setting of the Ghost in the shell, robots and humans can make no difference in appearance - even more human than real humans. This relies on highly developed artificial semantic technology. In the world of Ghost in the shell, no matter the limbs or organs, except for the brain, everything in human body can be replaced -- maybe the brain can also. The heroine is only able to retain the brain because of an accident before birth. So the heroine is a man with only a brain and a machine. So I want to ask a question, is the heroine a person? I think it is! Because there are many people rely on artificial limbs to live in society now. So I'd like to ask another question, if AI has the self - consciousness, the emotion, like the heroine in the