Philosophy Answers

1. Medical technology keeps making a steady advance, and when you’re much older (say, in 2070) you will have an option to replace all your worn-out body parts with artificial ones that work exactly like the original one. Suppose you’ve replaced your heart, kidneys, liver, eyeballs, bones. As you keep replacing, at what point do you cease to be “natural” and becomes an artificial human being? Will at any point this process will make yourself cease to be you? How about for a hundred few years, what if you replaced your brain? Suppose you replaced one out of billions with an artificial neuron that worked exactly like the one you’ve replaced. Keep replacing. Does it matter that 99% of your brain neurons are artificial? 100%? Are you still “you” the same way, if all your thoughts, memories, emotions and so on are preserved in an artificial brain in your head? Would you still have the same “soul"? Will you then have achieved, in a sense, immortality? Would you do it?

Explain the symbols of Plato’s Allegory of Cave with reference to our time.

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Short Question/Answer:

⦁ Why do we need philosophy today?

⦁ How do we use epistemology to teach machines?
⦁ How are logical fallacies used in marketing?

Goodman writes: "With false hope of a firm foundation gone, with the world displaced by worlds that are but versions, with substance dissolved into function, and with the given acknowledged as taken, we face the questions how worlds are made, tested, and known." Please explain this quote, step-by-step, part-by-part, being sure to use it to explain Goodman's concepts of "a world," "world making," and truth (650-800 words).

Narrate personal experiences where you experience applying the following fallacies.

Identify the rhetorical devices that occur in each of the following passages, and then explain in a sentence of two how it is committed. (Possible answers are: (i) Innuendo, (ii) Euphemism or Dysphemism, (iii) Paralipsis, (iv) Proof Surrogate, (v) Loaded question, (vi) Weaselers, (vii) Rhetorical comparison (viii) Horse laugh, sarcasm.

a) “Did you hear Donald trump’s speech the other day? It literally made no sense. I swear.” HBO host John Oliver describing the speech as being like “a drunk driver crashing a pickup truck full of alphabet soup.””

What is the concept of nation and nationalism, according to
Tagore? Do you think that it represents the same idea of nationalism
popular in the contemporary world. explain in 1500 words