Thursday, February 02, 2006

Feelings and Technology,

We are at a point in our life time where we can create imaginary worlds on computers which we may think we can feel and enjoy. One feels the world with their whole body. When you run or walk, your whole body functions and you sense great pleasure out of these natural phenomenons. When you swim, your whole body functions and you feel the water and calmness of the water all around you. You say the water is cold or hot. This sort of relaxes you and you get a pleasure out of it. Lets say you try to experience swimming in a simulation. Yes, you will be swimming in a digital world but how much can you enjoy such experience? In this case, in a digital world rather than feeling you'd have to think that you are now swimming. Feelings and thinkings are two different concepts that one must be careful when giving such examples.

Why can we not be happy anymore? I think most people suffer from psychological disorders because every where you turn has nothing left from its original beauty. We ask the question of what is natural beauty nowadays because we are so apart from it. People do not have the time to take walks in the forests or enjoy a day out in the nature under the sun. I think we are forgetting how we were created one with the nature and as a part of it. When one tries to separate a human being from the nature, the human nature itself starts its own fight.

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