Do you let Technology - the Tree of Knowledge, guide your way of thinking (to know life & death)?

Or do you let Nature - the Tree of Life, guide your way of thinking (to live forever)?

Is Technology a 'reflection' of Life (like the moon)?

Or an actual part of Life?

Do you let Technology - the Tree of Knowledge, guide your way of thinking (to know life & death)?

I use the information gained through education, quest for knowledge and my life experience guide my way of thinking.

I do not let technology guide my way. I use the knowledge built on the shoulders of giants to guide my way of thinking. That is, evidence based.

Laugh till you cry wrote on May 2^nd, 2019 at 3:34pm:


How did your IQ come into this?

Laugh till you cry wrote on May 2^nd, 2019 at 4:24pm:


Clearly a little education is needed here.

The metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants (Latin: nanos gigantum humeris insidentes) expresses the meaning of "discovering truth by building on previous discoveries".[1] This concept has been traced to the 12th century, attributed to Bernard of Chartres. Its most familiar expression in English is by Isaac Newton in 1675: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants

Interesting.

Many years ago I was in a chemically altered state. I had just finished playing a very story driven sci fi roleplaying game called Mass Effect.

In this story, organic life was wiped out to extinction by synthetic god machines called 'the Reapers'. The whole purpose of the story was for your human character to 'break the cycle'.

While the plot is cheesy on the surface, there was some deep philosophical meaning to it, which I think was the reason why I fell in love with the game so much. It became so much more than just shooting stuff for fun.

Anyway the big bad reapers stated something along the lines of, "Organic life exists because we allow it. It will end because we demand it."

Which, going back to my altered state, I got to thinking:
What if reality isn't "real" as we know it? Why is it that the human mind can work so similarly to a computer, in the sense it can be programmed? All of our emotions, to something as simple as taste, touch and sound.. all programmed to "feel" a certain way.

What if we are all just machines, one giant cosmic computer system, and we have been duped to believe we are organic and adopt "career paths", hobbies, interests to emulate meaning in our pathetic lives?