The mind is a wonderful and scary thing.
Many times, people take the fact that they can think for granted and never really consider why we all are blessed with thought, with feeling. Why we are more capable then AI because we are equipped with emotions, and why we cannot immediately overcome the barriers of our products…i.e. the over-dependence on machinery.
Feeling separates us humans from robots. I’m glad I can feel what machines can’t, because while we operate the same way, only us humans can enjoy the satisfaction of our actions. We can have fun with friends, they cannot. Of course, we created robots mainly for our satisfaction, but that’s another story.
I never thought that I would be actually talking about this. If it weren’t for communication and the power of true friendship, I would never be able to learn things different from my everyday schedule.
But yet the mind is scary, able to suppress emotion in the bad things (or more like, the things we consider bad). For example, extortion. Burglary. Murder. Rape. I wonder how these actions are committed without worry of its consequence.
As our society grows, we get exposed to more different mindsets, whether accepted or not. The feudal ways still exist, but their conservative frame of thought is losing its hold, giving way to more liberal situations. Promiscuity. No-strings-attached sex. You name it. Things that have been unthinkable, they are being given more and more recognition, and some even acceptance. The Chinese would never forgive themselves if their descendants were to commit acts of incest. And yet in other countries, as long as it does not hurt others, it is allowed. Which is kind of ironic, since ‘genetically, it’s wrong.’ (taken from my friend =D)
I do not deny having a very vivid imagination: I think of many things, of which I think of them in many different situations. And yet I wonder why I never thought that there are people who think just as much as me, even if they do not grow white hair (unlucky me). Sounds like a self-before-others self-preserving mindset. But I try my best not to be so selfish. I believe in transformation.
OKAEEEE INTELLECTUAL POST DONE. whew. I need to practise writing skills, so might as well practise on a topic that i have stumbled across when in some insightful conversation this week =).