My favourite short from Love Death and Robots was the season 1 episode "Three Robots". This episode had a lighter tone than previous shorts, with the three main characters being easily likable and quick witted. The robots are a part of technology I was impressed with, since we have models resembling the characters, like Alexa, who can converse and make jokes. I appreciated the irony of the robots going on this vacation to try and figure out how humans work, considering the fact we spend so much time today trying to figure out how to better work robots. When they first stop at the abandoned high school, I thought it could be a nod to high schools during COVID where they became empty and 'run down' since everyone was online (the episode was made in 2019 though). Their confusion to understand how the basketball was fun was entertaining, and also highlighted the juxtaposition between advanced technology and the simplicity of everyday objects. I also really liked the par...
After watching Stark Trek, it is evident how technology included and used throughout the movie can become tangible methods of democratization in politics today. Throughout this semester, we are supposed to relate the films we watch in class to the different movies, and it's always interesting to see how it applies to my Political Science major. As a political science major, a lot of the technology that was mentioned and used throughout of watching of Star Trek and the discussion that followed can attribute to my area of interest and career looking forward. For example, Star Trek showed that technology can be mobilized, which helps show how voter mobilization efforts can become much easier and bring the technology to voters instead of bringing the voters to the technology. In Star Trek, hypospray variants were carried by doctors to inject medicines and sedatives instantly, without a needle. In the film, the hypospray variant is able to hold several different kinds of drugs an...
Britannica defines Cartesianism as, “ a species of rationalism, because Cartesians hold that knowledge—indeed, certain knowledge—can be derived through reason from innate ideas,” (Britannica 2022). Cartesians believe that God is omnipotent and that his will is entirely free, therefore meaning that people who align with the cartesian belief have to deal with uncertainty in science. Cartesianism is built off the beliefs of René Descartes, and focuses on the duality between mind and matter. Cartesians believe that an individual cannot think on their own without the innate knowing that one exists, coined in Descartes’s popular phrase, “I think, therefore I am.” Based on the beliefs of Descartes and the teachings of Cartesianism, part humans/part machines do not have to align with Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics. Since Cartesianism places an emphasis on the separation between the body and the mind, part humans/part robots would not need to follow the 3 laws, since they possess an independ...
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