Man and Machine What is the connection, and is anything else needed?

I. DESCARTES AND MATHEMATICS--WHAT IS RELIABLE KNOWLEDGE, AND WHAT ROLE
DOES REASON PLAY?

II. FATHER OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY BUT HATED IT!!!--WHY?

A. HIS PROJECT WENT BEYOND ‘BRIDGE BUILDING’

1. HE WANTED RELIABLE KNOWLEDGE
2. HE WANTED TO SOLVE THE BODY-SOUL:MATTER-MIND DUALISM.--THE THINKING ‘I’ IS MORE REAL THAN THE SENSE WORLD
3. NOTE HOW THIS DUALISM CAN BE TRACED TO THE GREEKS

B. EPISTEMOLOGY--SIMPLE TO COMPLEX--THE ‘COGITO ERGO SUM’ ARGUMENT
C. ARGUMENT FOR GOD’S EXISTENCE--IS THERE A FLAW--recall St.Thomas Aquinas' arguments for the existence of God.
D. ARGUES FOR THE CONCEPT OF INNATE IDEAS--TRACED BACK TO PLATO
E. GOD AS PERFECT WOULD NOT DECEIVE US SO WHAT OUR SENSES REPORT AS REAL MUST BE REAL--THE PHYSICAL WORLD EXISTS
F. MATTER = EXTENSION
G. DESCARTES MAINTAINS A FUNDAMENTAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN MIND AND MATTER AND IS CALLED A DUALIST.
H. WE THINK SAD AND HAPPY THOUGHTS, AND WE CRY
I. WHAT METHODOLOGY DID HE DERIVE FOR SOVLVING ANY PROBLEM, AND HOW IS DEDUCTION INVOLVED?

III. SOPHIE'S DIALOGUE WITH THE COMPUTER:

A. ID’S HILDE AND SOPHIE AS THE SAME AGE
B. CANNOT ID HILDE’S FATHER BEYOND UN ROLE--why: what is the metaphysics and epistemology?
C. ALBERTO SEEMS SURPRISED WHEN COMPUTER ID’S ITSELF AS MAJOR KNAG (HILDE’S DAD)
D. NOTE THE CONNECTION --ALBERT KNAG AND ALBERTO KNOX