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Question 1

What is the short story that contains the Three Laws of Robotics?

Answer 1

Runaround

Question 2

What is the article that Nicholas Carr wrote which discusses the effects that the internet may be having on our ability to focus, the difference in knowledge that we now have, and our reliance on the internet?

Answer 2

“Is Google Making us Stupid?”

Question 3

What is South Korea’s Robot Ethics Charter advocacy?

Answer 3

“It aims to define how people are to properly interact with robots, in Stefan Lovgren’s words, “human control over robots and human becoming addicted to robot interaction.”

Question 4

He explained that it is no longer a question of whether a human-level artificial intelligence will be developed, but rather how and when

Answer 4

Brooks

Question 5

What are the four aspect of human nature according to Aristotle?

Answer 5

ANSWER: Physical, emotional, social, and Rational

Question 6

What are the three motivating parts according to Plato?

Answer 6

ANSWER: Rational, Emotional, and Appetitive

Question 7

It is a mode of revealing nature.

Answer 7

: Challenging

Question 8

It means arising of something from itself.

Answer 8

Physis

Question 9

They are revealed mainly in human thinking and do not allow further manipulations.

Answer 9

Autonomy

Question 10

Things that are revealed in modern technology.

Answer 10

Standing in Reserve

Question 11

He is a German philosopher who wrote an essay entitled “The Question Concerning Technology” which addresses modern technology and its essence as an instrumental way of revealing the world.

Answer 11

Martin Heidegger

Question 12

Who says that a good life is a happy life?

Answer 12

Aristotle

Question 13

What is the title of the book that Michael Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas wrote?

Answer 13

: The Ten Golden Rules on Living a Good Life

Question 14

Who states that each human being should use his abilities and their fullest potential and should obtain happiness and enjoyment through the exercise of their realized capacities

Answer 14

aristotle

Question 15

He is a Filipino philosopher that argues about the concept of the public good carries largely the politico-­ethical sense.

Answer 15

Ronaldo Gripaldo

Question 16

What is a public good?

Answer 16

Benefits by its use, the Communal and National Public

Question 17

In _________, the meaning of life is in attaining the highest form of knowledge, which is the Idea of the Good, from which all good and just things derive utility and value.

Answer 17

Platonism

Question 18

He explains that the purpose of life is earthly happiness or flourishing that can be achieved via reason and the acquisition of virtue.

Answer 18

Aristotle

Question 19

This theory proposes that universals do not physically exist, like objects, but as heavenly forms

Answer 19

Theory of Forms

Question 19

This theory proposes that universals do not physically exist, like objects, but as heavenly forms

Answer 19

Theory of Forms

Question 20

What is the Title of the play written by Karel Capek where the word robot first used?

Answer 20

R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

Question 21

Who made a journal that contains a detailed plan for the construction of humanoid robot?

Answer 21

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 22

He claims that a morally good person enjoys a sort of inner harmony while a wicked person is disharmonious, fundamentally at odds with himself and the world.

Answer 22

Plato

Question 23

Human flourishing is also known as:

Answer 23

Personal Flourishing

Question 24

It implies respect for the facts of reality.

Answer 24

: Living Consciously

Question 25

To him, to make life worth living we need to experience pleasure.

Answer 25

Epicurus

Question 26

What does a good life according to hedonistic conception?

Answer 26

It emphasizes subjective experiences. On this view, to describe a person as “happy” means that they “feel good” and a happy life is one that contains many “feel good” expeiences.

Question 27

What is the short story that contains the Three Laws of Robotics?

Answer 27

ANSWER: Runaround

Question 28

What does “Euron” mean?

Answer 28

European Robotics Network

Question 29

When was Hiroshima bombed?

Answer 29

August 6, 1945

Question 30

What was the impact of the printing press on society?

Answer 30

The impact of printing press decimated the population and had led to the decline in the rise of the church, the rise of the money economy, and subsequent birth of the Renaissance.

Question 31

He is an American domestic terrorist, also known as the Unabomber.

Answer 31

Theodore Kaczynskian

Question 32

Who is the physicist that led the building of the first atomic bomb

Answer 32

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 33

What is one way in which the information age has transformed the way we work?

Answer 33

People could access information and knowledge easily

Question 34

What was the primary advantage of the Gutenberg printing press?

Answer 34

Johannes Gutenberg turned the printing world upside down and brought on a newera of print with his revolutionary innovation of movable type in 1445

affordable printing

Question 35

What was the primary way that books were produced before the invention of the printing press?

Answer 35

all texts had been printed with woodblocks or fixed text stamp

Handwritten

Question 36

What was the primary language used in written communication in medieval Europe?

Answer 36

Latin

Question 37

What was the first book to be printed using the Gutenberg printing press?

Answer 37

Bible

Question 38

What are the outcomes of Gutenberg’s invention?

Answer 38

quickened the spread of knowledge, discoveries, and literacy in Renaissance Europe, Proto-Nationalism, profitable authorship

Question 39

It is the variety of life, also refers to the full abundance or variety of life – plant, animal and microbial

Answer 39

Biodiversity

Question 40

Intended uses of GMOs that used as specific models for many different human diseases, including multiple infectious diseases, such as HIV, immune system defects, blood and metabolic disorders, muscular dystrophy, cancer immunotherapies among others.

Answer 40

ANSWER: Biomedical

Question 41

Genetic engineering provides a quicker and more precise way to achieve the same goal in one generation. Genetically modified crops offer improved yields, enhanced nutritional value, longer shelf life, and resistance to drought, frost, or insect pests. Examples of GM crops include corn varieties containing a gene for a bacterial pesticide that kills larval pests, and soybeans with an inserted gene that renders them resistant to weed-­killers.

Answer 41

Agriculture

Question 42

Engineering of animals used for food. Examples include, chickens producing only female offspring for egg laying, cows producing only male offspring for better meat yield, pigs who can be fattened with less food, cashmere goats for producing more meat from greater muscle mass and longer hair for wool yield; and efforts to facilitate greater stocking density, such as cattle without horns and animals with greater resistance to disease.

Answer 42

Farm/Food Animals

Question 43

Institute of Plant Breeding in UPLB developed delayed-ripening papaya that is resistant to ringspot virus (PRSV). The initial project assisted by the Australian government developed a papaya variety with a 14-day shelf life, or double the usual 6 days.

Answer 43

Longer-lasting papayas

Question 44

Primarily used as animal feed, copra meal is an important feed resource in the Philippines. In 2014, the Philippines produced about 750,000 metric tons of copra meal as coconut by-product. About 60% of this was locally utilized mainly as animal feed.

Answer 44

Protein enriched copra meal (PECM) as feed protein for tilapia, milkfish and shrimp aquaculture