Book Review: "Another World, A Different Life"

This document provides a summary of three readings on big history: 1) Jared Diamond's work explains how environmental factors and disease impacted the development and success of different civilizations. His thorough analysis, citing of experts, and response to counterarguments gives validity to his theories. 2) David Davis places slavery in broader historical context rather than just focusing on the Americas. He examines similarities and differences in slavery over time and why certain groups became enslaved. This provides valuable historical context. 3) Anthony Pagden's book traces the rise and fall of empires and their self-glorification by invoking older empires. It references the development of crude racial concepts and acknowledges more recent analysis of race

Both Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explore the theme of dualism through the presence of a double. In Frankenstein, dualism is represented through both Dr. Frankenstein and the monster he creates, who are rejected by society for their immorality. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, dualism is explored through the single character of Dr. Jekyll, who takes the form of Mr. Hyde to escape society's repressions and express his impulses in a primordial state. Both novels connect this theme of dualism to the historical context of Freud's theories on society forcing the repression of impulses.

This document discusses the connections between Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and modern technology and issues of artificial intelligence. It argues that Victor Frankenstein's creation of life through science is analogous to today's rapid advances in technology that aim to create more intelligent machines and enhance human capabilities. However, this pursuit of knowledge and power through science risks losing control and creating unintended consequences, as seen when Frankenstein's monster turns violent. The document urges consideration of both the promises and perils of new technologies, and being wary not to overstep what is considered acceptable or natural for humanity.

This document discusses science fiction in literature and film. It provides definitions of science fiction from Theodore Sturgeon and Sam Moskowitz emphasizing the genre's focus on plausible scientific ideas and their human impacts. Major themes in science fiction are described like space travel, time travel, and encounters with aliens. Early influential science fiction films from the 1900s-1920s are highlighted as well as blockbuster modern films like The Matrix trilogy, Star Wars, Spiderman, and Gravity. Gravity is summarized as focusing on two astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their shuttle.

Prof. Stephen Hawking - last writings - Artificial Intelligence - Superhumans - Genetic Engineering The late physicist and author Prof Stephen Hawking has caused controversy by suggesting a new race of superhumans could develop from wealthy people choosing to edit their and their children’s DNA. “I am sure that during this century, people will discover how to modify both intelligence and instincts such as aggression,” he wrote. The renowned theoretical physicist, who died in March this year, made the grim prediction in a collection of essays and articles recently published by the UK’s Sunday Times, prior to the release of a book containing a collection of writings by Dr Hawking. Dr Hawking was known for bringing clarity to some of the most mind-bending ideas in science such as the nature of black holes and the possibility of a multiverse. In January 2015, Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and dozens of artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter on artificial intelligence calling for research on the societal impacts of AI. The letter affirmed that society can reap great potential benefits from artificial intelligence, but called for concrete research on how to prevent certain potential "pitfalls": artificial intelligence has the potential to eradicate disease and poverty, but researchers must not create something which cannot be controlled.

Here is My presentation on romantic literature. My presentation topic is Frankenstein novel and Krrish 3 movie as science fiction.

This session will look at the politics of knowledge production and discuss the ways in which the establishment of the dominant discourses of legitimate knowledge relied upon the concomitant marginalisation of ‘other’ sources of knowledge. Mainstream approaches to the philosophy of social science have not, for the most part, been particularly concerned with the effects of epistemology on the racialized/ethnicized and/or the non-Western and non-white. This is because the West, as the location from which the majority of these viewpoints have been constructed, has either implemented a universalistic image of the world which proposes that it can be all encompassing, or because it has more directly ignored the world beyond Europe and the West. This session will critically discuss the emergence of ‘postcolonial studies’ and its positioning of the subaltern as the vantage point from which to critique these dominant discourses, as well as attending to the various problems present in such an undertaking, as identified in the writings of Spivak. It will also look at the problems of doing social research with or on ‘Other’ (non-white, non-Western) groups. We shall examine the problems of paternalism, tokenism, objectivism, victimisation and the intended or unintended abuses of power that can arise out of sensitive and highly politicised research situations. We also ask what a philosophy of social science would look like if it was purposefully dedicated to acknowledging the injustices borne of racism and colonialism and redressing them.

A book review on "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari, a book on the evolution and mystery of the Homo Sapiens.

This document summarizes a paper about science and fiction. It discusses how science fiction explores imaginary possibilities of science and technology. It then analyzes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and how it was one of the first science fiction novels, exploring the creation of life through modern science. It also discusses the TV show Krishna Ka Krishna and how it was inspired by Frankenstein. Finally, it compares Frankenstein to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in their themes of scientists creating something that has unintended negative consequences.