Currently there is a lot of research going on in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The Artificial Intelligence research is not only to create robots, but to really understand what intelligence is, and at the same time understand the way our human brain thinks and works. Inevitably this researc...

The technology of the future will do things that seem \"mad\" to most of us today. Our ability to create artificial intelligence is increasing exponentially. In the labs of prestigious institutions across the country, scientists try to create a computer that will replace the brain. This futuristic...

My car slows as it approaches a stoplight. I take this opportunity to allow my mind to become engulfed with my surroundings: the bright, fierce red of the traffic light, the brilliant blue sky with its specs clouds, and the mass of hurried people. The four corners of the intersection are filled with...

Living Doll's by Gaby Wood may not be the most fascinating account ofrobots you have ever read, but it is certainly an original one. Woodcollects the robotics-related true stories and puts them together to showthat man's fascination with artificial intelligence and artificial life isanything but dea...

"Trifles" takes place in 1916 where the rights of women are yet to be stated, a place that is ruled by the paterfamiliae, the men. Only men know what is right, only men know what is best for their family. Men criticize women a lot and make fun of them. Men do not understand the difficulty...

The 1999 science fiction movie, \"The Matrix,\" is interesting because it addresses some important philosophical questions. The existence of human being, the reality of this world we live and the questions of the reliability of human mind are examined during the movie. When examined deeply, it is fo...

Title: Shade's Children Author: Garth Nix This book seems to be one of Garth Nix's better works because he expands the mind more then he did in the last novel that I read by him, (Pullman's journey). Pullman's Journey took place in the mid 1700's and was about a poor m...

Psychoanalysis is a very complex and interesting topic of debate. The foundering father of psychoanalysis is Sigmund Freud (1836-1939). Freud began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in 1873; Freud was very interested in the mind, especially in the forms of mental illnesses such as ...

Behaviourism is one of many schools of modern psychology and had an enormous contribution regarding human nature and behavioural patterns. The supposed founder of modern psychology, Wihelm Wundt, began the discipline with Structuralism. This approach attempted to analyze the contents of the mind,...

Essay Conventional and Sterile Tuesday Nov. 07, 2000 It is my understanding that people grow up in a society of conventional and sterile ways of life. Some societies have a tendency to raise people to be similar in their way of thinking. People are educated to have the same morals, beliefs ...

2001 A Space OdysseyLike so many fiction writers, Arthur C. Clarke always tries to offer the audience a few suspenseful moments in his novel. The key for such success lies in the human's perpetual appetite for mystery. It doesn't take long for a writer to create an enigma, but it d...

Adaptation September 11, 2001 and all is quiet and peaceful in the state of New York. Old man Radely opens his newspaper stand like every other morning and Mrs. Casterfield starts setting up the roses and baby's breath in her flower shop. Wishing he would have taken five more minutes to kis...

1-28-00 Moviegoer book report In Walker Percy's story The Moviegoer, Binx Bolling, a Stockbroker on the verge of turning thirty is on a quest. Set in 1960 New Orleans during Mardi Gras Binx, an upper class southern gentleman sets out to find out about himself. Answer questions ...

Everyday we are bombarded with various forms of stimuli. We see many people, we hear cars drive by, we feel the cool breeze, etc, but how can we prove that we are really experiencing these stimuli? That is the question that Rene Descartes asked some three hundred fifty years ago, is there any...

What is justice? What is wisdom? Can the meanings of these words even be universally accepted? Every individual has their own idea of how these words are defined. These concepts, among many others, are challenged and dissected in The Republic by Plato. The Republic is a philosophical book that ...

In Ayn Rand's book, Anthem, Egoism played an extremely big part but wasn't revealed until the end of the book. Ego means "lacking in ones own interests" meaning that you don't do what you like to do and don't have your own feelings. During the book everyone who was living in the society was lacking ...

A new issue has come about since the building of computers. But the idea behind it is not such a new issue, for as long ago as Plato and Aristotle, the idea of a mind was pondered about. With the up-and-coming technology, the idea of artificial intelligence has exploded. It is one that many fiction ...