Ethics and Theory

Part 1

1. Present three specific questions that you would ask in the Turing Test to determine if something is real or artificial intelligence.

2. Explain why you think these questions would be the type to reveal the computer to be a computer? Why would these responses have to be given by a human being?

3. (If you don't think there are such questions, explain how the three questions you chose would fail to determine which one of the respondents was a computer and which was an actual human.)

Part 2

Using one of the following Hegel Geist, St. Thomas Aquinas, Fideism, Design or The cosmological argument answer the following questions.

1. After reading about the various proofs of the existence of God, identify which of these arguments seems to be the best, and explain why you think so.

2. If you find none of them convincing, present your best argument against one of these proofs and why it fails to accomplish its task.

3. Complete your response by reflecting on why philosophers have sought for thousands of years to provide such proofs, and whether it is necessary to do so.