I was able to attend the talk, “Big Lecture: Albert Einstein, The Scientist as Activist” held last March 20 at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium. Almost the whole of Philosophy and Bioethics classes attended the talk. The speakers discussed the contribution of Albert Einstein in the philosophy of science and in the field of technology. One of the speakers discussed about his lecture, “Technology, Values and Einstein” and mentioned the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, which highlights the dangers of developing nuclear powers. The speaker also discussed the values within technology and the values about technology and its positive and negative results, which is economic growth and pollution respectively. He was also able to tackle the singularity, which is defining super intelligence. The two other speakers discussed about the Philosophy of Science and Einstein’s contributions to it. They said that the special theory of relativity of Einstein was one of his contributions to the Philosophy of Science. They also talked about Stephen Hawking on the Afterlife and David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and what has been called naturalistic fallacy.
I learned in the talk about the contributions of Albert Einstein in the field of science. I’ve also gained additional information that Albert Einstein was not only a scientist but he was also once an activist. This talk will help me in my career to become a doctor in the future because I’ve learned a lot about the effects of nuclear power to humans and I’m really interested with that particularly nuclear fusion. I hope that someday we can use nuclear fusion as an alternative source of energy because in the present time we are experiencing power shortage in our country. With the use of nuclear fusion, we will definitely benefit from it!
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