Robots and Autonomous Cars: Metaphors of Life by Dr.Yunus Cengel
Although a technological wonder, a state-of-the-art robot with artificial intelligence is a life-like but lifeless entity. It is an inanimate high-tech gadget. Some robots look and act like humans and mimic them so well that we may have a hard time differentiating those lifeless so-called ‘humanoids’ from live humans. What sets robots (and other smart devices) apart from ordinary inanimate entities is that they are a combination of precision hardware and sophisticate
The Absence of Existence by Dr.Yunus Cengel
As the story – often attributed to young Einstein – goes, a professor challenged his students with this question: "Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely replied, "Yes, He did". “God created everything?” the professor asked. “Yes sir,” the student replied. The professor responded, "If God created everything, then He created evil, since evil exists. Evil is what evil does, and so God must be evil.” The student couldn't respond to that re
Autonomous Factories and the Cell by Dr.Yunus Cengel
To develop a better perspective of living and non-living cells and a better understanding of life, consider a fully automated modern factory manned entirely with industrial robots and equipped with smart machines, with no human beings on the production floor. The facility utilizes the internet of things (IoT) and big data, and there is continual real-time communication and information flow among all machinery and equipment, including robot-to-robot, machine-to-machine an
A Magic Cookbook in the Kitchen by Dr.Yunus Cengel
As a thought experiment, imagine entering a kitchen with a detailed cookbook and a dinner table with a variety of dishes prepared in accordance with the recipes in the book. How plausible is it to think that the cookbook , which is made of paper and ink, prepared all the dishes and served them on table, like a grand chef with intent, knowledge, and skill? Let us suppose that when a certain dish like a pizza is to be prepared, the book opens by itself and the pages are s
Alice in Wonderland: Blueprints of Actullay Building A House by Dr.Yunus Cengel
Seeing a seed sprouting and a full-fledged plant rising in the air as inscribed on its DNA is no different than observing the rise of a house at a construction site as specified by the blueprints or architectural drawings, complete with plumbing, electrical wiring, painting, and landscaping, as the onsite construction materials around diminish but with no workers, engineers, cranes, and trucks visible. As reasonable beings, we will have to infer in this case that the
Brain-TV Analogy by Prof.Dr.Yunus Cengel
The claim “brain is the mind and mind is the brain” is not evidence based; it merely reflects a superficial view rooted in the materialistic ideology. It’s unconvincing to ascribe the intelligent sequence of conscious and coherent thoughts of human beings to random firings of billions of unconscious neurons. This thesis is equivalent to saying, “This is the best explanation I can offer as long as our thinking is limited by physical matter and we have nothing else
McDonald’s and Apple Tree (Life) Prof.Dr.Yunus Çengel
When the kid in us craves for a McDonald’s hamburger, we can walk into any restaurant with the golden arc, and get the same hamburger and fries that we are used to getting at the McDonalds’s in our hometown. And we feel right at home no matter where in the world the McDonalds’s we just entered is. Normally we would just enjoy our meal in the restaurant and return home, but this time we feel very observant and are in the mood for some philosophical thinking. Well, w