Object Matching to Questions
Please try to deduce which objects have to do with which questions. Some of the questions relate to more than one of the objects.
| Object |
match |
Question(s) |
| a. light bulb | What do people think a soul is? Where do some say they think it is? Where does a soul come from or if you do not think there is one why not? Would a machine ever develop a soul? | |
| b. nuts/bolts | What robotic devices are used today in war? How do they work? Why do we use them? | |
| c. big dictionary | How is armor like an A.I. device or how could you make people believe something that looked to be only metal but appeared to be intelligent? | |
| d. digital dictionary | What reasons would you give to say that it is possible or not possible to transfer you with your consciousness and awareness into a computer/robot? | |
| e. real turtle | What is the soul catcher chip and why is it being developed and why would it work or not work? What will happen if it could work? What will happen if it can't happen but people think it has been developed and is working? | |
| f. artificial turtles | What would happen if someone like Christopher Reeves received a whole body transplant? | |
| g. vertibot climber | How are we like a machine and how are we different? | |
| h. vacuum | How did all of our body parts come to be integrated? | |
| i. dinosaur | What is often a good place to mentally store memories and was done during medieval times and before? Why don't students use this method anymore? | |
| j. picture of skull with wires on it | What device can be used to augment our natural senses? If this was hardwired into our bodies what would this make us? | |
| k. battery | What non-A.I. thing do children often invest with feelings and children often love? How do children think about A.I. devices? Do they think they think? | |
| l. Frankenstein | What two states exist in a computer's logic gate? What does binary mean? How does binary relate to A.I.?? | |
| m. TENS unit | Why do we have two eyes? | |
| n. Arcos hard drive | Why would a scientist want people to think his robot is thinking and conscious when it he knew it was not thinking and was not conscious? | |
| o. film camera | What tiny creatures may have irreducibly complex motors? What alternative theory of origins compared to evolution have these irreducibly complex motors led some scientists to propose? If we were designed by an intelligent designer what would that mean for the efforts to develop robosapiens? If we were not designed what implications would that have for efforts to develop robosapiens? | |
| p. digital camera | What thoughts come to you when you see a machine that you can use for making music? thoughts about that device? | |
| q. black box | What body parts are being replaced by metal and artificial parts today? What does this mean about the person who has parts replaced? | |
| r. box of machine parts | What is irreducible complexity? What does it have to do with our thinking about A.I.?? | |
| s. matrix movie | What robot do most people use every day? | |
| t. A.I. movie | How does a computer 'know' what you want done? | |
| u. Bicentennial man movie | What dangers might there be ahead for the way children relate to animals and machines? | |
| v. Artificial Intelligence | What do children think about what happens inside a computer when they have 'asked' it a question? | |
| w. sonic ear | Where are words when you learn them and their meanings? | |
| x. flash cards with words | When a device like this is connected to the brain what will happen if it works? | |
| y. robot greeting cards | IN what movie does a robot ask to be declared human and why? | |
| z. robot dog | What two words seem to some to be an oxymoron and are they? What other words might be better? | |
| aa. keyboard opened | What must be assumed to be true if you think a computer can be wired to our brains and thoughts directly placed into our brains from the computer? | |
| bb. mouse opened | What reasons do some scientists now offer to support the idea that our parts have been designed? Why do some agree and why do some disagree with them? What implications are there for efforts to create robosapiens? | |
| cc. mouse trap | What object is often used as a symbol for when we know something has happened but we don't know how it has happened? Who claims to have opened one of these and why? | |
| dd. memory chip | What devices are being replaced by weak A.I. devices? | |
| ee. steel helmet | Where can we write our thoughts and memories and ideas besides paper and computers? How does writing to this place different than when we type or write on paper? | |
| ff. bd machine | How could one human turn another into his robot? Using which device? | |
| gg. microscope | What happens when scientists refuse to accept moral or legal limits to their work? Who should determine whether such limits are in place and ought they be enforced? What, if any, limits should be considered regarding the efforts to create robosapiens? | |
| hh. emporer's new clothes book | What energy is used by both computers and human beings? | |
| ii. stereo glasses | What is a cyborg and how does a cyborg differ from a robot and a human being? | |
| jj. teddy bear | What is an automaton and how does it differ from a robot? | |
| kk. binocular glasses | What are instincts and how do these make a creature like a machine? If instincts are a part of the DNA code for a creature what does this possibly imply? | |
| ll. photo of my house | What are some modern day uses of so called weak A.I.? | |
| mm. invisible man | How do we determine if a word is being used normally and what words are relevant to our course of study? | |
| nn. body parts in box | What tasks are usually associated with robots? | |
| oo. head | Ideas take place where? What are ideas? | |
| pp. cable | ||
| qq. robot kit | ||
| rr. little knight | ||
| ss. picture of robot airplane | ||
| tt. glove | ||