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Logic by Machine Reflection Paper

1) This reflection paper discusses the 1962 film "Logic by Machine" and how it introduced audiences to the emerging computer revolution and changing relationship between humanity and technology. 2) It explores how computers were already beginning to take over vital functions previously done by humans and how lives were becoming dependent on computers. The author notes they are writing this reflection on a computer, trusting it to produce superior results to writing by hand. 3) While it is commonly said computers can never replace the human brain because humans created them, the author argues computers have advantages over humans in areas like calculation speed and accuracy. Computers also advance without noticeable human limitations in areas like errors.

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Logic by Machine Reflection Paper

1) This reflection paper discusses the 1962 film "Logic by Machine" and how it introduced audiences to the emerging computer revolution and changing relationship between humanity and technology. 2) It explores how computers were already beginning to take over vital functions previously done by humans and how lives were becoming dependent on computers. The author notes they are writing this reflection on a computer, trusting it to produce superior results to writing by hand. 3) While it is commonly said computers can never replace the human brain because humans created them, the author argues computers have advantages over humans in areas like calculation speed and accuracy. Computers also advance without noticeable human limitations in areas like errors.

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Name: Saifullah B.

Panda
Subject: GEC 108- CNSM
Instructor: Mr. Johndell Canata

REFLECTION PAPER FOR LOGIC BY MACHINE (1962)

In the past few decades we have seen how computers are becoming more and more
advance, challenging the abilities of the human brain. This 1962 film introduces its audience to
the computer revolution and the relationship between humankind and technology. It explains
how the computer can process millions of bits of data in seconds and can handle as many
arithmetic figures in one minute as a man can handle in a lifetime.

Over the millennia, Man has come up with countless inventions, each more ingenious
than the last. However, only now, as the computer arises that mankind's sentience itself is
threatened. The computer has already begun to hold sway over so many of the vital functions
that man has prided himself upon before. Our lives are now dependent upon the computer and
what it tells you. Even now, I type this reflection paper upon a computer, fully trusting that it
will produce a result far superior to what I can manage with my own to hands and little else.

It has been commonly said that the computer can never replace the human brain, for it is
humans that created them. Is this a good reason why the computer must be inferior to humans? Is
it always true that the object cannot surpass its creator? How can this be true? Even if we just
focus on a single creation of man, say the subject of this paper, the computer, there are many
ways in which the computer has the edge over man. Let us start with basic calculation. The
computer has the capability to evaluate problems that man can hardly even imagine, let alone
approach. Even if a man can calculate the same problems as a computer, the computer can do it
far faster than he can possibly achieve. Let us go one step further. Say this man can calculate as
fast as a computer, can he, as the computer can, achieve a 100% rate of accuracy in his
calculation? Why do we now go over the human data entry into a computer when a mistake is
noticed instead of checking the computer? It is because computers now possess the ability to
hold no error in its operation, where mankind has not advanced in this area in any noticeable
margin. Why do you think the words 'human error' and 'to err is human' have become so popular
in recent years? It is because the failings of the human race are becoming more and more
exposed as the computer advances and becomes more and more unstoppable.

In a reverse perspective, the human brain is responsible for, thought, feelings, creativity,
and other qualities that make us humans. So the brain has to be more complex and more
complete than any computer. Besides if the brain created the computer, the computer cannot be
better than the brain. There are many differences between the human brain and the computer, for
example, the capacity to learn new things. Even the most advance computer can never learn like
a human does. While we might be able to install new information onto a computer it can never
learn new material by itself. Also computers are limited to what they “learn”, depending on the
memory left or space in the hard disk not like the human brain which is constantly learning
everyday. Computers can neither make judgments on what they are “learning” or disagree with
the new material. They must accept into their memory what it’s being programmed onto them.
Besides everything that is found in a computer is based on what the human brain has acquired
though experience.

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