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        After reading this article and watching the movie, The Transcendent Man, my thoughts about

technology becoming human, are fairly clear. There is one point that Kurzweil tries to get across that

just bothers me. Kurzweil believes that he can “bring his death father back to life”(Grossman 10).  His

idea is that one day he will be able to take all of his father’s belongings and be able to recreate a robotic

version of him. Kurzweil somehow thinks this robot will be the same as the real thing, I believe that is

impossible. You can not recreate all of his thoughts, his beliefs, and his actions. Kurzweil is searching for

the love and compassion he never had with his father. He may be able to build a robot that looks and

speaks exactly like his father did but he will never get that father-son connection that he earns for. The

robot will just be an imitation of his father.  It is nothing at all like the real thing.

       Even if there is a time when computers can be installed in or take the place of humans, will we still

be humans? This is an idea that I have been struggling with, and I assume others have been too. No

matter how much technology evolves isn’t it possible that “there are things going on in our brains that

cant be duplicated electronically”(Grossman 8).  There are actions and processes that are going on in

our bodies that still confuse us. We don’t know all that goes on in our brains and bodies or why they

even happen, so how can we possibly duplicate them. How can we be our complete self’s if we are not

in our on bodies.  By taking one little part away, I think we are losing ourselves. There is no way of

staying yourself if you are continuously moved and rearranged.