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Dec.7-8

  1. students finish their Life of Pi questions from Friday and hand in when done (these must be handed in by Wednesday). 
  2. students do the following journal in their journal notebooks: “If you personally had an opportunity to go in and change your grade in the computer (either now in high school or picturing yourself in college or university), and you knew beyond any doubt that you would not get caught, would you change the grade? Why or why not? Is it unethical? Explain.
  3. Journal: If you knew you had 24 hours left to live, what you do and why?
  4. Journal: Imagine that someone gives a gift to someone but the recipient refuses to accept the gift.  Who owns that gift?
  5. follow this journal up with: If you said that the person who offered the gift owns the gift, then comment on the following: if someone offers you anger (etc) and you don’t accept it, who owns it?  Therefore, do we have control over ourselves?
  6. Students read p.137- 139 and answer #1-3 p.139
  7. Students read p.140, 147-149, and in their journals summarize the Turing Test or the Chinese Room, their own opinion of the value of the test and their opinion as to whether or not there will one day be artificial intelligence. Then they can answer #1-3 p.149. 
  8. Work on Philosophical Cafe