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General societal rules dictate how the majority of our conversations go. They start with a formal greeting and introduction ("hello, my name is...") then move on to some basic formality questions such as "how are you". The majority of people can think of examples when they themselves have had a conversation like this, whether it be for a coworker, acquaintance, or family member. The author is correct when they say that conversations like these are more for politeness in an effort to avoid the awkward silence that can arise in situations like these. Efforts to avoid that awkward silence is why the author describes conversations like this as a mere politnes, instead of literal intent behind saying "lets get coffee". Although there may be a certain group of people who may truly enjoy having a conversation, and may truly mean it when they say "we should see each other soon" the majority of people have these conversations as a thing of politnesss.

In the past few years we have all heard of the growing use of artificial intelligence in our day to day life. Whether it be from the automated voice that directs you when you call your bank, the computer that tells you to take a different route home to avoid traffic or our personal AI assistant thats on all our phones. There are two schools of thought regarding these improved technologies. The "boomer" perspective and the "zoomer". The idea of implementing AI in our daily life appeals to the zoomers, who grew up with smartphones, and have seen massive improvements in the technology that we live our lives around. They rely on maps to get places and don't know their crossroads, choose what they watch based on Netflix recommendations and know how their phones work. Because they have not grown up in a world where technology wasn't around they are far more likely to be accepting of changes that would be implemented, such as AI. On the flip side there are the boom...

The dictionary definition of anthropomorphism describes it as being the "attribution of human characteristics or behavior to animals or objects". Continued discussions in class have brought the question "can dogs run", "can birds fly", or "can fish swim". At first the answer seems like an obvious yes. However it's important to acknowledge the fact that actions like running are human attributes that are given to animals. A writer might describe a mountain as trembling, but mountains cant literally tremble. However when you start dealing with more literal phrases like the ones above, its harder to say. Videos like  this ,  this , or  this  answer the literal definition of the question with other animals doing human things like  lobsters writing . Although a fair point is made by saying that those are human characteristics given to animals I think that if there is intent behind what an animal is doing (such as the dog running through the obstacl...