your definition is different that mine. ( or dictionary.com, or merriam websters)
For practical purpose - I - literally - on my own -if the weather was congenial, and there was water (plants, insects, and, animals) -could survive - 100%
If I could - I'm sure our non technologically friendly ancestors could - and a million time better than myself.
The definition of everything from birth is technology , isn't correct. ( from what i see, and from my personal understanding - maybe just a difference of definitions)
- in which case - with your definition - we are nothing more than a conglomerate of technologies, and the melding of man machine is just another progression in human evolution?
I think differently than that.
yup...I developed that as a working definition myself.
a human with no technology is a rotting chunk of meat.
we are the product of technology and it is incorporated in us. The more technolgy we assimilate the more human we become..
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
We have different perspectives on what being human is, I feel.
Your perspective, is nihilistic. (in my opinion).
There is no room for beauty or aesthetics - its all function. I think very differently than that, and getting back to Tolkien, why he perfectly sums up the human v the non human.
Being human is appreciating of beauty, being happy (or sad) - but feeling.
Are you an Ork, deep down? lolo
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
who says technology is not beautiful?
I certainly didn't.
it takes technology to make art..or record beauty that already exists in nature.
you misspelled orc.
You said Your perspective, is nihilistic. (in my opinion).
Nihilism = rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.
certainly NOT. Your opinion is wrong.
ZAP is my moral principal. Every other (so-called) moral principal is derived from that. IF they really meant it..but they do not.
You'd have to define what you mean by meaningless...
before you do it might be instructive to read about the monkeysphere, behavioral sinks, rat utopia, dunbar's number and The Iron Law of Bureaucracy
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Technology most certainly can be beautiful. And is.
throwing mud paintings on a wall with your fingers doesn't require technology.
Recording beauty is recording something - technology - the beauty is the object you record.
LOLOL- my apologies on the misspelling - I hate it when people misspell my name ! lmao
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
You are correct - I apologize. (I'm just making my first coffee- give me 10 minutes, and I will attempt a better post )
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
apology accepted but not required.
We are discussing ideas....not personalities.
Address the post and not the poster
...anything goes if you do it that way.
Expect (proportional) retaliation if you attack me.
I just woke up myself (sleep issues)
I've only had two or three cups of coffee so far ...I'm making a new pot.
.
Where are you if I might ask?
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I'm from the UK, but living in SE Asia - Thailand.
I'm an early riser (5 a.m. every morning - my favorite part of the day!
Where are you, if I might ask?
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Texas.
I spent a year in Thailand...Utapaeo near SadaHip...about 90 miles from bang cock.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I spent a week in Texas oncee- mostly Austin - partying in my younger days on a road trip from NY to LA (doglegged across the country)
Iike the states
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I hate having to apologize, due to sloppiness- and that's why I did it.
keeps me sharp!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit