The Cyborg Advantage
Let’s face it; the curiosity of human being is unlimited. We always want to know how can we expand our brain or improve our logical thinking. We barely use the whole capacity of our head/brain, but even with that small percentage, we created a very similar object to us; the computers. Without human thinking and a “can-do” spirit, computers would never exist.
So, basically, it really comes on hand to have a computer, because we could have situation, when we might need some extra help by digital assistance .As a team, humans and computers could make an unbeatable combination, work much better together. Like in chess, there are endless analyzing of difficult decisions before you actually do them, so it’s definitely helpful to have an “extra brain” around.
I guess, the basic idea was to make our life comfortable by letting us do less calculation on papers. The first abacus was made by pearls, helping to replace actual numbers. Later on, when we made simply calculators and the very first computer, which was huge by the way, and has a size like a class room, humans were trying to reduce the time, what was used doing hard calculations.
Chess is a great way to develop mathematical and logical thinking. In this game, there are many steps that you need to thinking through, involving a lot of strategy that is why teachers recommend that to play in early childhood with the children; because it will help to learn how to solve math problems and it will go to improve logical thinking as well.
There is another difference between us and the human created computers. I never forget that, what one of my elementary math teacher told me once. She said:”The most intelligent computer is the human brain.” Despite that fact, a computer will never create an individual thing: feeling, human emotion or even intuition. Those things are not based on some logical algorithm; they don’t have any code a computer is capable to translate. That is something experts still need to work on.
Nowadays, we need to confess that fact, we are very relying on computers. Hand in hand, like master and servant, we serve the world every single day. We can’t live without each other. There was a movie in the early 90’s called “Terminator”. The director, James Cameron had a dream, he confessed, about the future, when cyborgs will lead the world and we (humans) will be the part of the rebels, fighting for our own life. The story goes back and forth in time, shows that how the first robots and cyborgs were created by us and how they became our enemy. I think having control over machines is very important; otherwise we will end up just like in this movie. The computers have been created by us. It’s just up to us how careful we are to let the robotechnology control our life. Machines made for helping us, for example, doing extra difficult calculations which human brain’s capacity would not be able to handle. Once again, it needs to be emphasized that fact; computers were made by humans.
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