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People who have at one time put in the work to learn a new language have soon realized that, in the end of it all you end up using philosophical literature to learn to the language. This seems fair, because probably if you can understand the language then most likely you can understand the philosophy writings which are usually vague. while studying Korean, I  came across a multitude of words that did not have direct translations, in other words the english language and most likely all latin based languages do not acknowledge the existence of the phenomenon; or lets say emotion since most of these were emotions. To help you understand, the Japanese and Korean words of ice cream are actually written as ice cream, because these communities of people originally didnot have ice cream in their lives and therefore  had no word for it. The above paragraph brings me to an understanding that, one's language can actually limit the things that they experience. If the word sad didnot e...

If you have left your bed today, chances are you have touched something whose manufacturing process was at least partly if not wholly executed by a robot. However, gone are the days when robots lived in the factories, for very soon they might not only be part of our working colleagues but also part of our families. A few years ago, people argued that a robot could never live like a human being because they could not think and lacked human intuition. However, the development of artificial intelligence has made this a thing of the past. Unlike in the last decade or so, today the million-dollar question is whether one could be friends with a robot or not. My reaction to this question is “why not?” My idea of the future is that robots will integrate into the everyday life of human beings helping us with everyday chores like housework, cleaning of our homes and offices, serving us in coffee shops and going as far as providing security to name but a few. I believe that one of the bigg...