Well you bring up some interesting points. I think that the topics for this week bring up some interesting points. The ideas of cyberspace; where is cyberspace? Is there a physical space somewhere. Why does it exsist? What purpose does it serve?

I think your ideas are bring up some very interesting ideas. BOB, for example. I mean would that ever really work. You would have to be very very heavily under the influence to believe that BOB would actually be your friend. An imaginary figure on the computer, somewhere in cyberspace, actually might exsist somewhere, and that it is your friend. Its like having friends on myspace but different. With myspace the people you interact with, are all real people somewhere, hopefully. I mean, you may find a fake one once and a while, but for the most part, even though you are interacting in cyberspace, they are meant to be real people somewhere.
I think the ideas of sharing personal information over the internet is somewhat scary, but it is done, and it is not going to stop.

I think cyberspace is only going to grow in population, especially as the average age of usuage gets younger. Kids these days are on a computer the day they are born. its sickly. Parents are letting kids on computers way to early and they get into things they should not be viewing. But cyberspace will keep going, i dont think it will stop.

Well, even though we got behind the last class, i think it was a very positive class, in that we spent alot of time on one particular topic we all felt passionate about. Collectively we had alot to say about the subject at hand, (brain=computer), and that made the conversation among us quite interesting. I spent most of the class listening to what everyone had to say, because coming in to the class last week, i wasnt sure how i felt about the topic. It almost frightened me. To think that someday a computer, a machine, could replace me, a human, and think for me. In the world of today we rely so heavily on computers to communicate in multiple ways, this blog for example, we are all contributing to it, as a means of communicating our thoughts, ideas, and feelings about the material and class. I think this is a very powerful tool, especially for a class like such as cybernetics, where we are discussing topics such as electronic communication and such. I feel it is a powerful tool that is appropriate to use in this class.
Back to the topic of the week, brain=computer. I didnt comprehend it at first, but after hearing some of what you all had to say i felt i had more of an understanding of the material, especially the readings which i found hard at first. I think the Searle article was the most interesting. I enjoyed how he asked the 3 quesitons in the beginning, and the rest of his piece was based around answering these overwhelming questions. I think the brain mimics a computer, in that it is a device for computing information, but it can only output based on input, it cannot develop date for inself like the brain can. A computer cannot develop its own ideas or feelings, the computer runs from programming which cannot assume anything, it must be based on some programming however far back it goes. The computer is a powerful tool in todays world, but i dont think, and i dont want to see it replace the brain, ever….