As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoni

To say that anything in the future will 'surely' come to be, is quite a bold statement. The statement provided expresses that humans are essentially accelerating their own demise, by relying more and more on technology as time goes on. Though there is some truth to this, by and large the ability for humans to think for themselves cannot possibly deteriorate and the expectation of cutting edge technology is proof of that.
The key idea to be established is that in fact, technology and artificial intelligence is just as 'smart' as humans allow it to be. One may argue that technology has more knowledge than the average human, which is clear when speaking to a voice-automated Siri, Alexa or Google. However, ask them about their thoughts and feelings about a particular subject and you would get dismal results because they simply aren't programmed with the intelligence and complexity of the human brain. In fact, researchers still can't fully understand everything that goes on in the brain, so it would be foolish to assume that reliance on technology would make our thinking less as a whole.
In more specific scenarios, it is plausible that perhaps technology is solving problems that are making humans less willing to use their critical thinking or problem-solving abilities. For example, just the invention of the calculator, in its most basic form, has made mental math a thing of past. Despite this, calculators do not make problem-solving obselete. On the contrary, humans ar now able to think of mathematical equations in ways they never could before, which leads to creating and solving newer problems. Even technology does not have the ability to do every mathematical or quanitative function, which is where the human mind comes in to perform.
Finally, the abilty of humans to think for themselves comes at a very young age and is promoted as children progress through their schooling. Though the statement, again, may hold true at times where students are allowed some form of technology to help them with homework or even class work, learning in the class can only even be done with a human instructor and participation comes from students using their minds and imaginations to work. Especially for the humanities, there is only so far technology can be used, as an essay written or graded by a computer can only reach a certain level in terms of expertise. Technology's goal is to make life easier. That is why for standarized examinations, like the GRE, there is both a computer grader and a human one and both only assist each other to make the process easier.
To conclude, there were many ways in which the statement provided might have held true but all had been excrapolated to see that there is more infromation that would disagree with such a statement and that in the end, humans reliance for technology cannot take away from their physiological ability to think, reason and rationalize. Thinking and problem solving are just some of the many unique qualities that make humans who they are. As Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am."

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, for example, i think, in fact, by and large, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2562.0 2235.4752809 115% => OK
No of words: 516.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96511627907 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8217320469 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.523255813953 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 817.2 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.8127107234 60.3974514979 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.1 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7 5.21951772744 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.313114804853 0.243740707755 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0885472585258 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.057304829141 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183168828375 0.150359130593 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0565082541237 0.0667264976115 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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