Issue47 [Aero小组] 第八次作业

tonyyoreUID: 2317273

TOPIC: ISSUE47 - "Society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect-that is, on reasoning and other cognitive skills."
WORDS: 535          TIME: 00:55:00          DATE: 2008-1-23 14:50:54

This issue asserts that intellect such as reasoning and other cognitive skills are underestimated by society. I fundamentally disagree with this statement. Although some extent to which quite a lot of people are still in the state of lacking reasoning and analytical skills points out the fact that these aspects might be overlooked, but they are, actually, only a small portion of exceptions in society.

To support this statement, the speaker might point out an ostensible argument about passive cognition. Due to the great impact advancement of technology has on our lives we are sunk into the huge pool of information, which has swollen to every corner of this planet. General people, faced with such magnitude of information, might not be able to positively fit in such a world by digesting all the information they could reach, but only to wait passively for information go through their mind and try to memorize only a little bit of it. This kind of cognitive pattern is called passive cognition, which is believe by some pessimists the major cognition pattern of the majority of people.

However, a reflection on such argument reveals that the cognitive pattern of people at present time is actually different from it seems to be. Since the invention of computer and network, people are dealing with tens of orders of magnitude more information than ever before. These facilities actually serve as a filter, which help people decide what kind of information is worth their time and attention, what kind is not. With the help of computer and Internet, people are able to filter out unnecessary information from the worthwhile, and, instead of swallowing all the information as a whole as they did before, they are more capable of understanding and cogitating by analyzing the useful information. In other words, since the high-technological facilities came into being, society has placed more emphasis on teaching people how to utilize such potential tools to help us procure more information we are urging for, and remove that of little use.

Moreover, another argument against such claim that society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect, the one I find most compelling, is the fact that people are actually creating more facilities. In any event, people tend to cogitate about anything they can reach. An observation from the statistics of the number of inventions each year, which indicates that the number is increasing by geometric progression, that scientific activities are valued more than any time in history. As the famous statement goes that science and technology are a primary productive force, science and technology, require intelligence more than any field of this world, are placed on the principal status, so important that even transcend time and space, ethnics and nationalities, in the process of advancement of human beings.

In sum, the issue over society that lacks emphasis on the intellect is merely an ostensible one, which is vulnerable to any deep analysis. It is for this reason I agree that society has placed intellectual activities on the principal status in history. The development of technology itself serves as a compelling evidence of the wide-spread of intellect -- that is, reasoning and other cognitive skills -- in this society.

bigyanUID: 2382427

This issue asserts that intellect such as reasoning and other cognitive skills are underestimated by society. I fundamentally disagree with this statement. Although some extent to which quite a lot of people are still in the state of lacking reasoning and analytical skills points out the fact that these aspects might be overlooked, but they are, actually, only a small portion of exceptions in society.

To support this statement, the speaker might point out an ostensible argument about passive cognition. Due to the great impact advancement of technology has on our lives we are sunk into the huge pool of information, which has swollen to every corner of this planet. General people, faced with such magnitude of information, might not be able to positively fit in such a world by digesting all the information they could reach, but only to wait passively for information go through their mind and try to memorize only a little bit of it. This kind of cognitive pattern is called passive cognition, which is believe by some pessimists the major cognition pattern of the majority of people.

However, a reflection on such argument reveals that the cognitive pattern of people at present time is actually different from it seems to be. Since the invention of computer and network, people are dealing with tens of orders of magnitude more information than ever before. These facilities actually serve as a filter, which help people decide what kind of information is worth their time and attention, what kind is not. With the help of computer and Internet, people are able to filter out unnecessary information from the worthwhile, and, instead of swallowing all the information as a whole as they did before, they are more capable of understanding and cogitating by analyzing the useful information. In other words, since the high-technological facilities came into being, society has placed more emphasis on teaching people how to utilize such potential tools to help us procure more information we are urging for, and remove that of little use.

Moreover, another argument against such claim that society does not place enough emphasis on the intellect, the one I find most compelling, is the fact that people are actually creating more facilities. In any event, people tend to cogitate about anything they can reach. An observation from the statistics of the number of inventions each year, which indicates that the number is increasing by geometric progression, that scientific activities are valued more than any time in history. As the famous statement goes that science and technology are a primary productive force, science and technology, require intelligence more than any field of this world, are placed on the principal status, so important that even transcend time and space, ethnics and nationalities, in the process of advancement of human beings.

In sum, the issue over society that lacks emphasis on the intellect is merely an ostensible one, which is vulnerable to any deep analysis. It is for this reason I agree that society has placed intellectual activities on the principal status in history. The development of technology itself serves as a compelling evidence of the wide-spread of intellect -- that is, reasoning and other cognitive skills -- in this society.
你的语法和词语用法我实在是找不出来什么问题   但是我觉得你的文章好像更侧重于技术在逻辑和推理方面的发展，而我觉得应该从人类本身来谈起 ，当然这是我的理解，不知你怎么想