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PHIL201 Business and Professional Ethics

   

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PHILOSOPHY1Part 1Question1After reading the Hasker’s text, Picard’s stance is that his friend is a robot named Data,who is a person that should be to make his own decisions (synopsis). According to his views onthe mind/body problem, he thinks that mind is not a separate entity from the body. Thus, hebelieves in a materialistic nature. Picard indicates Data to be a human in his own way. In order tobe a human, Data must possess the same thinking ability like a human. Like the humans, Dataalso has a brain that is capable to think. Like other humans, data’s brain also has a self-operatingcomputer (Hasker, 1983).Maddox ‘s views on the mind/body problem is different from that of Picard, that is whythere is a clash between the two. Maddox’s view is that both the mind and the body have a dualnature; that is, we have brain and a mind (Hasker, 1983). Maddox believes that human mindshave a dualistic nature, while Data have only the brain, it lacks the mind. Humans have the souls,while machines do not possess the same (synopsis).Question 2The three criteria as mentioned by Maddox do sum up to make a human being. Everyman and woman possess these traits which can be summed up to make a human. I think otherthan three traits: intelligence, self-awareness and consciousness no other traits are required to beconsidered a person (Kosinski, Stillwell & Graepel, 2013).Question 3Obviously, the way artificial intelligence is depicted in the story is possible in the future.For example, we use android cell phones based on Google Assistant, the latest Google Pixel 2

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