Blog #8
My thinking about human cloning and technology has changed through my reading and writing because I now have learned more about how technology affects us. I learned how human cloning will be a definite thing in the future. Before taking these classes I thought they would be boring and I thought I’ve have trouble concentrating but I have learned so much and appreciate the things I have learned. I learned how to think more deeply and clearly. Now I know more about cloning and why it might benefit our future. I didn’t know much about cloning before these classes but after watching videos, n=and reading about it, I learned the benefits of it. My writing has changed and grown since the beginning of the semester because I’m writing more professionally. Since I am thinking more philosophically, it also comes through in my writing. One thing I learned about cloning is example “Is it hard to think of any problem that a super intelligence could not either solve or at least help us solve. Disease, poverty, environmental destruction, unnecessary suffering of all kinds: these are things that a super intelligence equipped with advanced nanotechnology would be capable of eliminating” (Kurzweil,137). We can program a robot to do everything except dream and feel emotion but other than that they can do so much to help us. “Once strong Artificial Intelligence is achieved, it can readily be advanced and it’s powers multiplied, as that is the fundamental nature of machine abilities” (Kurzweil,140). This is true. Once a machine is created and we can get it to work properly, then we can future advance it. A challenge that I overcame with sources was that I had to learn when and how to use quotes. I didn’t know how to use them before but now I know.
