Thursday, February 23, 2006

Computer Progress

My question is somewhat general about both Dreyfus and Borgmann. My main problem with these two thinkers is that I believe their ideas are shortsided. Both agree that a computer is not able, and will never be able to equal human experience and 'reason'. Going back only, say, a decade, there is no possible way we could have expected to have the innovations that we have in our world today. Just think of all the things we can get from today's internet. This would have never been imaginable. Not only this, but we have discovered and analyzed atoms with computers, and we have even used computers to navigate machines sent to mars (by computer). There is no question in my mind that our technology is ever-evolving. I just don't see how both of these thinkers can state so forwardly that machines will never be able to equal human experiences or reason that is found within in-class learning. Who is to say what we will have in the next decade? the next century?

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