“Critical"Thinking"Blog"Post"#6”

My topic is the perils of cloning. I am using Kazou Ishiguro's novel “Never Let Me Go", a book which I borrowed from the library. This is a fictional novel about special and gifted children who were reared and brought up for a sole purpose of “donating". Yes! Donating! These children were clones and the reason they were brought up was to donate their organs. The main setting of this story was in Hailsham, which a dormitory school. One of the main characters was Kath a resident/student in Hailsham who in the story narrates all about their childhood experiences and as it goes by a scary secret reveals.

            This novel is very interesting; there is a twist of science and humanism in it. This  will help me with my research paper about perils of cloning.  It address about clones that just live like normal people. As I read the novel this question came in my mind, will cloning be consider as beneficial to mankind or its ethical perils will outweigh it? My research thesis will be base on this question.

I will Ray Kurzweil’s “The Singularity Is Near” to support my research about the benefits of cloning to humans. This is a book that can be read in the course pack. Kurweil is a techno romanticist who believes that cloning is one of the answers to everything.  

Critical Thinking Blog Post #4

Friends or Foes?

I haven't seen this movie, only the trailer but it caught my attention. I just remembered one of the robot clip that was shown in the class that looks like this robot in the movie. I think robots are not really a treat to humanity. we design robots how we want them to be or what their purpose should be. They don't have the freewill to think nor consciousnesses. For this movie this robot was design for the purpose of being a companion to this old and lonely man.

Well for this one, is a different situation, and I think this is very impossible to happen. A robot that has the ability to think independently. While watching this movie for the first half an hour I though that a human tried to manipulate the robots to do some nasty stuff to people. Then when I found out that it was the " Mother System " of the robots was responsible for this, I though its very impossible. Nothing like this in real life ( or in the future) can happen.