Thursday, February 23, 2006

Questions,

So far, I have been enjoying Dreyfus because he takes a human being as a whole not cut off from the body and only focus is not directed on the head up. He says in anything we do, we must be fully present and be there! I do think what we lack in today's world is that people are made to be seen as mechanical things with no respect to given to senses or feelings. We are related to the machines. When we refer to a specific part of the body like the brain we refer to the computers and try to create similarities! I think we should stop doing this because it confuses the very fragile human mind.

So lets put people into two categories, those who think of themselves as mechanical beings and those who think of themselves as natural beings that can be compared to no machine of any sort. My question to Dreyfus would be how are we suppose to distinguish these human qualities? Some tend to favor technology a lot more because they are taught and made to feel themselves as such?(mechanical beings than natural humans) Is education the answer? Well, in my own opinion, besides certain majors in colleges, I think education is taking a route which favors technology superbly. Think of what we go through for classes, power points presentations, 3D drawing courses on computers, a single computer course must be completed to graduate, etc.

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