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Post by chernandez268 on Apr 1, 2015 2:25:34 GMT
Test 5
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
I agree with the the viewpoints of vegetarianism. I myself, as for most people, would quite frankly concur to the idea that us as humans are not under the impression of eating animals with a higher brain function. However, I agree that most people deliberately are oblivious to the big picture when eating animals such as cows, chickens, etc. When Professor David C. Lane lectured in class regarding a situation at a In-n-Out vender, as if one of the workers told you to choose which cow you wanted to eat as he would prepare it in front of you. I myself (as well with most of the class) came to a conclusion where we wouldn't choose to kill the cow. People don't observe that so therefore they overlook it. People tend to think its "just a hamburger" rather than someone killing an animal in order to satisfy their craving when walking into a burger joint. In addition vegetarianism is a "moral issue" rather than a "rational issue". I believe if a person is to become a vegetarian, it is based on upbringing on their moral viewpoints brought on by themselves.
2. What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture is a concept in which science, such as general physics, can not prove how a certain matter is rationally explained. In addition to that, a "remainder conjecture" can be used as an example regarding "is there an afterlife"? Science can not physically prove or eliminate the idea of their being or not being an actual "after life". Until proven otherwise by science or physics for example, an after life is considered the "remainder conjecture",
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
When thinking of the genetic connection between humans and a grain of rice, I came to the conclusion of determining how most people (ashore myself) tend to look at the world around them in the wrong way. It explains that everything around us and ourselves came from the same root. We all originated from bacteria and evolved into what we are today. Although we only share 25% of our genetics as to rice it proves that the similarity exist. People distinguish other people or things based on there eyes rather than the bigger picture. To be fully aware of the world around us I believe that one must understand what came before us. The things or organisms that came before us originated us.
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Post by berto11 on Apr 1, 2015 5:28:40 GMT
Test Number 0922
1) Ten years ago, my parents went to the Queen Mary to spend the night. I remember them coming home and my mother was very paranoid for some reason. My father on the other hand was completely fine. I asked my mom why she was acting differently. she told me, " when your father and I were asleep, I woke up in the middle of the night about 1 A.M. and looked up to see a white entity." I think my mom bought into all the propaganda about the Queen Mary and it let herself be fooled by her own mind.
2) My astrological sign is a Gemini and the horoscope I read said that something positive would be coming to me soon. I sat there thinking what could this be or mean. Sure enough an old friend text me that she was back in town for spring break and she said we should hang out. So we went out and it was a very awesome and much needed night to get out of the same routine! But thinking about this critically either way if I wouldn't have read this horoscope I believe she would have text me and we would have hung out. I strongly believe there is a million things that could happen in my life that could be significant. And my old friend coming back for a week happen to be that one out of another million things that could have happened. In other words something significant was bound to happen
3) If an alien would come to my house, I think that alien wouldn't be able to understand why human beings hurt each other for entertainment. As when boxers out on their big shows and get paid millions of dollars to knock someone out. It is inhumane to things of that nature but we do it. Animals from the wild do not act like this with one another. They only fight when the feel that they are in danger. that is what I think an alien would have the hardest time understanding.
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Post by naranjo1 on Apr 1, 2015 5:47:50 GMT
Test Number: 97654
1) Explain the neuroethical argument of vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism argues that all animals are capable of feeling pain and not only certain animals. The old thought that animals could not feel pain was a really bad assumption. Therefore, why should we cause harm to the animals on the planet that we live on. I agree that we should have some other way of getting our nutrients and not just by killing animals. we've come to a conclusion that animals that have a higher brain capacity should not be a part of the food chain. So why not stop eating meat and substitute it with some other sort of food supply. I also believe that this will be the only way to stop the animal killings. That there needs to be a substitute for the loss of meat right away and available to the public. Because if not people will go right back into killing and eating meat again.
2) What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture states that an experience that cannot be supported or explained by science or physics can be considered as the “remainder”. for example, when someone says there isn't any other life form on this planet. How could they scientifically prove that? The answer is they can't prove that there is or isn't. Therefore it becomes a "remainder".
3) If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how would such information influence or impact our world view.
If there is a genetic connection between humans and a grain of wild rice, than this could open up our eyes that there could be many other things that we could be connected to that we didn't think possible. Maybe there could even be a link between the human race and the alien race.
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Post by chris on Apr 1, 2015 8:08:58 GMT
Chris Flores
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Philosophy 8 / Critical Thinking
29 March 2015
Code: 97654
Film Questions 5
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism asserts that because animals feel pain, we should not eat them and instead treat them as we would a human being. This argument stems from the fact that humans do not eat humans because we can empathize with each other’s pain, and, since animals feel pain as well, we should extend that empathy towards animals. People eat animals because they believe the animal’s intelligence to be lesser than people. However, the argument also asks us to imagine beings that live on a higher intellectual plane than humans. These beings come to Earth in search of food, and begin killing and eating humans because they believe human intelligence and suffering to be beneath their own. They justify, just we do with animals, to themselves that the human mind is too simple to have a real understanding of pain. Furthermore since they cannot understand us, they do not care about our suffering. I have no doubt in mind that all animals can feel pain. It is one of the basic functions of a biological body needed to keep that body out of danger. I would not wish any animals any pain. That said, I cannot help but a feel a bit of cognitive dissonance, as I cannot help but agree with the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism, yet I myself am not a vegetarian. There are pages upon pages on the Internet about the harsh treatment of animals on farms, as well as many pages about the “myth” of ethical farm animal treatment. I have grown accustomed to not trust anything from PETA, as they have proven to be an organization that uses only slander tactics to get their points across, but there are so many non-PETA articles that essentially support the argument for vegetarianism. Perhaps it may be time to reassess my eating habits in regards to how the animals who are born on farms and eventually end up on my plate are treated.
2. What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture is the idea of giving a specialist in a certain field the time and means to explain some sort of odd occurrence in said field. If the specialist exhausts every single explanation for what could have caused the occurrence, then the occurrence must have been caused by something else. For example, a person’s computer will not turn on. The person takes the computer to the Geek Squad at best buy in order to get it fixed. The person tells the Geek Squad employee that they believe the reason the computer will not turn on is because of a ghost in her house. The Geek Squad employee then begins testing each individual part of the computer. The power supply, central processing unit, graphics processing unit, motherboard, random access memory, fans, and hard disk drive are all functioning properly. The Geek Squad employee exhausts every possible problem that could have been causing the computer to not power on. The computer owner comes to the conclusion that it must have been the ghost in their house, since no logical solution can be reached.
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, then that would probably cause a much more unified world view when it comes to people. If human beings, one of the most complicated creatures on the planet, can share genes with something so seemingly insignificant as a grain of rice, then perhaps that grain of rice is not so insignificant after all. Perhaps humans are not as significant as was once thought. In any case, it would probably cause people, ideally, to have a much more unified view of people and animals, and nature itself. It would make racism seem even more ridiculous than it already is, since if we share such a connection with a simple grain of rice, then the difference in genes between to creatures of the same species, especially human beings, must be near negligible. Overall, I think that many people would change their worldview to have more respect for their environment and the creatures that surround them.
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Post by jaredhamilton on Apr 1, 2015 18:32:45 GMT
Film Test #5 Code:97654
1) Explain the neuroethical argument of vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
I agree with vegetarianism because it is not only healthier but also a much less brutal way of life on earth. I am not a vegetarian, in fact i am probably the farthest thing from it but I fully understand that animals should never be raised for slaughter. I could not imagine myself being raised to adulthood and knowing the entire time i will one day be killed in order to feed a different species and that species that will consume me has no remorse about ending my life. In nature animals kill one another in order to eat but the animals do the killing themselves, wolves kill but they do the killing themselves and we as humans let others kill for us even though we are most likely incapable to kill due to remorse. Vegetarianism is also a healthier way of living apposed to being an omnivore. many meats contain high fat content and while some fruits and vegetables may contain fat, it is usually good fat or at least low in fat. Vegetables and fruits can provide enough nutrients such as protein and essential vitamins for human life, there is no necessity for meat.
2) What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture states that anything that can not be proven by science is the "remainder" and is not provable to be true or false. Many religions will rely on the remainder conjecture to prove gods, happenings or visions to be more than what they are simply because science can not debunk it. for example someone might see an event in a dream and later the event might occur, the person may be religious and state that it was a vision from god. science can't prove that the dream even occurred or how the person was able to have such dream and so it becomes the "remainder" and the religious person says it is true because science could not prove it untrue.
3) If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how would such information influence or impact our world view.
Such information might bring into light that all living things on this planet re short only a few genetic codes from being the same species. Every living thing is made up of the same atoms generally but is how those atoms are put together and linked that create differences. there are only a few minor differences in our biological structure from other humans but we all consider ourselves completely different from other humans. If we all realize that there is only a few differences form one life form to another then we can begin to work together as a planet rather than as individual species and we humans fail to work as a single species now so the hope of working together in harmony is a long shot to say the least.
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Post by vgamboamejia on Apr 5, 2015 3:54:32 GMT
97654
1) The Neuroethical argument of vegetarianism is that if we cannot perform the act itself and accept the fact that we are taking a life then why do we allow others to do it for it. I completely agree with this argument because if we feel it is so essential to have meat in our diet why are we not able to get it for our self. If the individuals that kill the animal and cut the meat off are able to do it they have more of a right to eat the food than the individuals that are waiting for the processed product. Furthermore the argument also supports that we as humans do not eat certain animals, well as Americans, do not eat animals that we have attached emotional connection to or similar intelligence. Therefore, why can we not contribute the same amount of emotion or intelligence and sympathetic view to any other animals, as stated in class, if an higher being or alien life form would come to earth and attempt to eat humans for their nutritional value and we were not able to communicate to them or plead to them to not eat us, and thought of us as a lesser intelligence and therefore gave no thought in eating us. Well it is the same as us humans just because we cannot understand how cows or pigs or chickens communicate that doesn’t mean they don’t feel the pain or fear of being killed in the masses, which is why strongly agree with the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism.
2. The remainder conjecture is derived from the purpose that we should seek other answers that are logical before reaching for an answer that is unexplainable. Such as when a certain event occurs in our home such a plate falling when no one was around, as humans that have watched a lot of scary movies our first instinct is to think “ghost”, however we forget to think that maybe someone had placed the dish wrong and it as gravity has it all things must come down, and if placed incorrectly it begins to fall and therefore falling to the ground on its own. However if we think it is something supernatural it can have a spiral of events that occur after, removing our logical reasoning for what could be considered out of the normal solution. However this is troubling because when logical and reasonable solution is what should be our primary reach when considering the answer to questions because we then discover the truth.
3. This information should influence the world view by having connection that we are connected to the world, just because a small difference in a genetic we became humans as opposed to a chimp or to a grain of rice. Therefore, as humans we should value the products of the earth far more than what we do because, we as humans see the Earth as our obligated provider, as though the Earth is supposed to maintain our health and our survival, while we slowly destroy it by putting more and more man made products on it. I also believe that the very fact that we share a genetic connection to rice means that we should value earths creations far more because if we share a connections with a mere grain of rice what else can we share a connection to. As well, this demonstrates that we all come from a similar life source therefore what makes human so different from every other life source on the planet. Therefore we must appreciate the natural life sources provided to us from Earth.
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Post by enrique on Apr 8, 2015 7:12:33 GMT
Film Test #5
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism questions why we eat animals, which have the ability to feel pain such as we do as humans. It states that we could obtain the same necessary nutrients from plant foods and lessen the suffering of animals by opting for a vegetarian diet.
I agree and disagree with the argument. The nutrients our bodies need in order to sustain a healthful lifestyle can easily be fulfilled through a vegetarian diet by consuming an assortment of different grains, fruits and vegetables. However not everyone gives a crap about their health (although they should). If some people don't care about their health, why would they care about the animal's suffering? Hitler knew Jews would suffer in concentration camps but that didn't stop him and the Nazis. Many people would kill the animal with no sympathy. It's been a part of the food chain forever. What I'm saying is all types of species have suffered. Is suffering cool? Nah, but it happens and there's nothing we can do to completely stop it. Why don't we do the slaughtering ourselves? We simply don't have time to in the modern world, and it's no longer necessary. I think a better reason to stop eating meat is because of the disgusting conditions modern farms raise meats and poultry in. I feel much better about eating organic, free-range, grass fed beef any day. The fact that the animal suffered isn't going to change that.
2. What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture suggests that we should answer any of the unknown through physical evidence before allowing our beliefs to justify or identify an object or event. The remainder would be that which defies the laws of physics, chemistry and biology to allow one to have a belief not based on science, for there is no answer. An example that comes to mind is from a previous video we'd seen in class where a man said that if the bible stated "2+2=5" he would believe it, or find a way to make sense of it. If there were no way to prove or disprove the said statement then it is left open to interpretation and has the potential to be anything you believe it to be.
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
It should allow us to imagine and discover all other substances that impact the well being of our bodies and the earth. This would allow us to consider what changes we can make to sustain more healthful economies opposed to depleting land of elements and nutrients.
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Post by siubenjamin on Apr 15, 2015 0:23:27 GMT
Exam 3
1. My understanding of “Gumby Land” thinking is something along the lines of: Believing in something that cannot be disproved. To quote and paraphrase some phrases from the film: “muddled;” “too abstract;” so incorrect that it’s not even wrong. The example nonsense question used in the film was “how many angels can fit on top of a coke bottle?” I used to think that if I was learning about or reading a phrase/word/song/idea/utterance at one particular moment in time only to hear it again later in the day that I was on the ‘right’ path in life--that I was doing what I should be doing as dictated by the cosmos. I can’t disprove whether or not I’m on the ‘right’ path because there is no such thing as a ‘rightness’ in a life journey. My friend had a superstition that if he slept in any other position than on his back, he would be antagonized by demons.
2. What I’m getting from the “maya” video is that everything we perceive is a projection of our own minds; that is, what we’re looking at and what we’re thinking and what we’re hearing (etc.) is not necessarily an unchanging, objective form of itself, but rather what we, the individual, make of it. To be caught by “maya” is to deceive oneself about the true nature of a phenomenon and instead attributing it to something we’d rather it be. An example of this is seeing a particular religious figure in a near death experience, such as Jesus or Buddha or a Guru, where the phenomenon of seeing these figures and the fact that they vary from person to person is indicative of our own illusions about the supernatural. I used to attribute sentience to mannequins because of their uncanny resemblance of the human body, but all it took was the realization of their plasticky origins to remove those thoughts. In the same vein, every time I watched a horror movie as a child I would fall into the delusion that whatever happened in a movie was applicable to the real world. To extricate myself, I had to constantly remind myself that behind these movies was a whole brigade of people whose job was to make horror films seem as real as possible.
3. Feynman’s Imperative is to be comfortable not knowing and willing to be wrong. Knowing that, nothing will necessarily change about my thinking other than the fact that I have a term to attribute to it. I say this because for the most part I have been comfortable in the unknown and willing to be wrong. At the same time though, Ivash’s caution encourages creativity and imagination and awe. It serves as a counterbalance to the seemingly apathetic doldrum that strictly adhering to Feynman’s Imperative can put one in.
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Post by siubenjamin on Apr 15, 2015 0:24:49 GMT
Exam 4
1. I have a friend who claims to have had the seemingly-cliche experience of seeing Jesus as he nearly died in a hit-and-run accident. A Protestant Christian, he was one of those kids who was raised in the church but also skipped Sunday services as he got older when he didn’t feel like going. One Friday night we were riding our bicycles in a pack along the main boulevard near our local mall when a car swiped him with its passenger-side mirror. Without a helmet to protect him, he busted his head on the curb and lied there unconscious until the ambulance carted him away. In that moment, he claimed to have seen his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ telling him it was not his time to go. One could explain this rationally by bringing up his upbringing in the church and how that institution conditioned him with Christ’s image being the ambassador of the heavenly universe above. The Chandian Effect does apply in this case because my friend was experiencing a projection of the Holy Spirit in front of him, and I’m pretty sure Jesus was not conscious of him being at the center of this.
2. My astrological sign: Aquarius. My horoscope at the time of writing this says something along the lines of today being a day full of opportunities that I must pounce at lest I ignore them and regret it later. Does it fit? Probably. The horoscope was written to fit the most amount of readers so by definition it is vague. As to how critical thinking would explain this, after reading some horoscopes for other constellations, it seems that they are all written vaguely; all those horoscopes could fit nearly everybody’s personality profile at one point in time or another, and it’s the writers and website admins of these astrology websites that want to make people feel special by classifying them according to constellation and giving them some ‘tailored’ daily/weekly/monthly/yearly horoscope.
3. I think what the intelligent alien would find most odd is the fact that certain functions essential to our biological functioning (using the toilet, sex, showering, etc.) are done in private. These things are as essential as talking and eating and sleeping yet we give them certain Given, this is in my home as per the question; I understand in other cultures these things are relegated to different levels of privacy.
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Post by siubenjamin on Apr 15, 2015 0:25:33 GMT
Exam 5
1. The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism is essentially this: In the right circumstances and given a choice, if we can sustain ourselves without eating anything with a central nervous system and a capacity for suffering why don’t we? Most humans do not eat each other because we know what it is to be human, and we generally don’t eat primates and dolphins and to a lesser extent dogs/cats because of how much we liken their intelligence to ours. But by that logic, pretty much anything with a face and a brain should not be eaten either according to this argument. I understand the argument and agree with it in the sense of “why not adopt vegetarianism given the choice?” There’s no real downside to vegetarianism but there’s also no outstanding downside to eating meat either. At the end of the day, I know I can stare at my food in the face and kill it, so while I feel for this neuroethical argument, I also will not take it to heart.
2. The remainder conjecture is the notion that should science fail us in explaining “erstwhile mundane” material happenings, what we will be left with is an unexplainable remainder (at least through physics, biology, and/or chemistry). That is, as the video/article explains, all too often people “jump ship” when it comes to explaining phenomena and attribute them to the supernatural even when all possible material/physical explanations have not yet been exhausted. The conjecture advocates exhausting these explanations before arriving at the supernatural or the “remainder.” An example could be the ability of humans to be self-aware. We know that we have the biological and psychological capacity to be self-aware, but we do not exactly know how it comes to be, other than that neurons fire in our brain and pathways are created. So while some may say it was a god(s) that gave us this self-awareness, the remainder conjecture says that we have not yet exhausted all physical explanations and that the god explanation is the “remainder” that we will be left with should science ultimately fail us.
3. I’m not sure if this knowledge of a genetic connection should influence our worldview, but it definitely could. And how could it? This bit of information demonstrates that just as we are connected to a grain of rice, so are we to literally every living thing on this planet, for if life started on this planet as a single cell, all living things throughout the planet’s life span are successors of that cell(s). Perhaps it could make us more mindful of how we treat our surrounding environment, and keep us grounded in the fact that for all the constructs we come up with as a civilization that may make us feel ‘above’ it all, we are still of the dirt and microscopic organisms that we crush beneath our feet.
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Post by Phillip Navarro on Apr 16, 2015 19:51:54 GMT
Test 5 97654
1. I don’t agree on killing anything that has feelings and can feel pain. I don’t agree on killing anything that might be smart or non-intelligent. The video does point out a true fact. If I were to see the animals getting killed in front of me I probably wouldn’t eat it. But because I don’t see them getting killed and I’ve been eating meat for so long I can’t stop eating meat and become a vegetarian. Although people say cows, chicken, ducks, sharks, are non-intelligent they do have feelings and can feel pain just like us.
2. The remainder conjecture is trying to find a logical or scientific answer first to a problem that you might run into. And if you can’t find a solution to any of your problems that will be the remainder conjecture. I work in healthcare fixing computers, every day I get calls from clients saying they are having problems, it could be from having issues with logging into a computer to having issues with the performance of their computer. I have to trouble shoot and try to figure out what is the problem. It’s a lot of logical thinking. Whenever I run into a problem I start to write down what could be wrong and I check everything on my list whatever I have left that I can solve or I’m not sure would be the remainder conjecture. Could be hardware issues or software.
3. If there is a connection between us and a gain of rice, then I ask myself what else are we connected too. What else on this earth shares similarities with human beings? I would start to look at the world different and question the evolution of man.
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Post by yarua on Apr 17, 2015 4:35:10 GMT
Test #4 Code:0922
1) Have you ever had a paranormal experience? Or, do you know of someone who claims to have ever had one? How would you explain it rationally? Does the Chandian Effect apply?
I have never experienced something paranormal in my life, but my friend had. When she was young at her old home, every time she would turn off the lights and try to sleep, she saw a "dark figure" in her room. She said that it did nothing to her but just stare. Stare at her as if it was nothing. She thought it was nothing, but after a few weeks she told her mom. Her mom had to purify the room and sooner or later the "dark figure" was gone. I cannot really explain this however I do not think the Chandian Effect apply in this situation.
2) Think of your own astrological sign and find a horoscope that pertains to you. Does it fit? How would a critical thinking explain it?
I am a scorpio and reading some horoscopes I can relate to it. It mostly pertains to the normal things that we all should think as in move on and keep on persevering. A critical thinker would think that it does not mean anything but it is based on what people think about it. Some people would think that it is true and other think that it is nothing but a load of crap.
3) If an intelligent alien did indeed visit this planet and came over to your house, what do you think he would find most odd about human behavior?
If an intelligent alien would visit our planet and came into my house, I think he would find it odd that we are species that uses technology. I do not think this alien would know what technology so I think he would be curious on why we are usually on it for a long period of time. Another would be knowing that we are independent so we usually do our own thing.
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Post by yarua on Apr 17, 2015 5:10:10 GMT
Test #5 Code:97654
1) Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
I agree that if an animal is to be killed for food, they would feel the pain that they are about to encounter. I feel that if seeing an animal be killed for food, I would not eat it. I would probably not eat it for a certain amount of days but then continue eating it later on. However, if I do not see an animal being killed, then I would eat it which is what I have been doing all my life.
2) What is the remainder conjuncture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjuncture is finding a scientific answer to a problem that we encounter in our lives. If there is none, then it becomes the remainder conjuncture. When I am at home, I used encounter problems with the wifi. In any device, it would say that it was connected, but when going on the internet, it said "Connection Problems". For me, I thought that it was the placing that the modem was, but in the end it was the modem itself. I called the company numerous times and finally got someone to check on it. The modem turned out to be putting in a lot of stress because of the different devices that was connected to it. It was the modem that needed fixing.
3) If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our world view?
If we have a connection to a grain of wild rice, then curiosity would probably hit. A small grain of rice connected to us in way would be interesting in a person's point of view. However, people are different. It is them that decides that we could be relate to a grain of wild rice or just think that it is impossible. I think worldwide, it might influence people to think about it, but I do not think it would impact it much.
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Post by Phillip Navarro on Apr 17, 2015 8:18:52 GMT
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I can totally relate to your situation with your friends and how you act like Spock. I have two very close friends that I have known since grade school. They are good people but also the most negative people you will ever meet. Every time they open their mouths then never have anything good to say. Not just that when you talk to them it’s either their way or nothing at all. When we do hang out they tend to kill the mood, it’s hard to cut them off but sometimes it is the best thing to do.
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Post by Taline Sassounian on Apr 17, 2015 8:32:45 GMT
1. Explain the neuroethical argument for vegetarianism. Do you agree or disagree with it? Be sure to support your answer.
The neuroethical argument for vegetarianism is that animals feel pain, and that they too have feelings. In the film it states that if we were to see a live animal get killed, we most likely will not eat it, that is true. I would most likely not eat that meat, and most likely be quite disgusted for a while. But I will not become a vegetarian because of it. I do agree that animals have feelings too, but killing animals for food is part of the circle of life.
2. What is the remainder conjecture? Give an example of how it works.
The remainder conjecture is finding a solution to a problem by hypothesizing certain answers and by checking off the ones that do not apply until finding the solution, thus having a remainder. An example may be when the belief was that the Earth was located in the center of the solar system, and all the other planets and the sun revolved around Earth. There were many different hypotheses on where Earth was exactly located, then it was discovered that the sun was located in the center.
3. If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, how should such information influence or impact our worldview?
If there is a genetic connection between us and a grain of wild rice, this information should influence us to analyze what other things may be genetically connected to us. Our worldview will change because we will start to make connections with many different things/objects, and we would question the evolution of man.
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