PHL 443 Complete Course
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PHL 443 Complete Course
Week 1
DQs
How do machine metaphors relate to our understanding of reality, concepts of knowledge, and values?
What are mental phenomena?
Learning Team Weekly Summary
Individual Philosophical Questions Responses
Write a 200- to 300-word response to each of the following questions. Use the assigned readings as a basis on which to form your opinions.
What role do metaphors play in helping people understand the concept of artificial intelligence? Do you agree that the brain is a so-called meat machine? What other metaphors might be applicable to the function of the human brain?
How do you think Victor Frankl would answer the question, What does it mean to be human? Examine Frankls ideas on life, love, suffering, and humor in the Electronic Reserve Readings Facing the Transitoriness of Human Exsitence and Meaning in Life: Autobiographical Reflections. What is your definition of what it means to be human? What metaphors does Frankl use to communicate his ideas?
Taking into account John Searles hypotheses of consciousness and free will in the Electronic Reserve Reading Between a Rock and a Hard Place, discuss the difficulties of addressing these human characteristics and whether these characteristics are limited to humans.
Individual Philosophical Terms Exercise
Week 2
DQs
Why is the mind-body question important to understanding human intelligence? Why is the mind-body question important to understanding machine intelligence?
What does it mean to be human?
Learning Team Weekly Summary
Individual Mind-Body Debate
Resources: Selection 3.2: RepublicPlato and Selection 3.4: MenoPlato in Ch. 3 of Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Imagine philosophers RenDescartes and John Searle were in a room discussing the mindbody question. How might their conversation sound? What important elements of the question might they discuss? How might their conversation develop?
Create an 8-10 slide PowerPoint presentation with notes of a dialogue of the mindbody debate from the point of view of Descartes and Searle.
Each character must present and critique arguments.
Each characters position must be identifiable.
The dialogue does not need to have a final resolution.
Include the following issues:
o Is the mind independent of the body? Is the mind more than the electrical impulses generated by the brain?
Descartes believed we can doubt the existence of physical matter, including our bodies, but we cannot deny our conscious minds.
Searle believes the mind is a rule-based information processing system.
o Are the mind and body two separate entities, or are they dependent on each other?
Conclude with a 2-4 slide PowerPoint presentation summary with notes of the dialogue and response. Discuss how your own views relate to the mindbody debate.
Week 3
DQs
What is artificial intelligence a part of? Explain?
What are the functional differences between humans and machines?
Learning Team Weekly Summary
Learning Team Human and Machine Intelligence Essay
Select a philosophical approach: ontological, epistemological, axiological, or metaphysical.
Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper in which you compare and contrast the fundamental similarities and differences between human and machine intelligence using your selected philosophical approach.
Include the following in your paper:
Categorize the current goals and limitations of artificial intelligence.
Explain how the functioning of the right and left hemispheres of the brain relates to machine (artificial) intelligence.
Develop your own criteria for identifying a thinking machine.
Include at least six references from peer-reviewed sources. At least one of these references must be from the Electronic Reserve Readings used in this course.
Week 4
DQS
What type of criteria may be established for determining if a machine is conscious or thinking?
What is the role of free will in establishing rights for intelligent machines?
Learning Team Weekly Summary
Individual Mind and Consciousness Questions
Write a 1,400-word response to the questions below based on the assigned readings.
In the Electronic Reserve Reading Consciousness, John Searle poses some basic questions regarding the subjectivity of consciousness and whether this is strictly a biological process. What do you think of these arguments? What are your own conclusions?
What is the difference between syntactic knowledge and semantic knowledge? Cite examples from your own experience.
Using examples from your own experience, discuss the difference between the form and content of knowledge. What are the implications of the form and content of knowledge when assessing machine intelligence?
What is the difference between the concepts of thinking, consciousness, and knowledge in relation to machine intelligence and human intelligence?
Week 5
Learning Team Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights Presentation
Consider the possible future of artificial intelligence.
Create a bill of rights PowerPoint based on your predictions for the future of artificial intelligence.
Introduce the following topic as a philosophical question: If we were able to determine if a machine has self-awareness, would that machine have rights? What ethical criteria or definition of thinking would be required to qualify for these rights? For example, is Bicentennial Man or the character of Lieutenant Commander Data on the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation a realistic possibility? If so, do these mechanical beings deserve to be called life forms and treated as life forms with inalienable rights? Do intelligent beings have free will?
Present your bill of rights in a 15- to 20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
For Online students, these are Microsoft PowerPoint presentations with speaker notes, in-text citations and references.