The vast majority of people spend the vast majority of their lives in a sort of semi-consciousness, half living in the real world and half living in a world of emotional fantasy. This includes me. However, through the exercise of your mind you can learn to become conscious of the the process of abstraction. You can transcend superficially rational ways of thinking and recognize arbitrary semantics for what they are: arbitrary. Experience real freedom! (I'd say join 'us' but I'm not feeling particularly Illuminating right now.) [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maoegdZH28"]Hymn au Soleil[/ame]
Sign me up. Does that mean that I can merge with machines and become a transhuman hybrid and traverse the universe at light speed?
Your youtube didn't show up. Says malformed link... Here: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maoegdZH280"]Louis Vierne - Hymn au Soleil (Suite II Op. 53, No. 3) - YouTube[/ame] Your OP is a bit confusing coupled with the youtube. I don't get the connection.
Care to elaborate to us who are currently not on a computer with sound? Of course, humans work off emotions, and many things that humans create (laws, engineering, medicine, technology) to a large extent do not. One has to ignore feelings to fully understand these things (of course, that doesn't mean one has to become an emotionless robot to read your mail, but you can't expect it to show you your mail by only wishing it to). Most things work even when used by emotion but if you want the understanding to properly use these concepts, you need objectivity. The concepts are only arbitrary with respect to your feelings, not to each other.
The world is a weird place. Until the outbreak of WWI the head of the Bolsheviks was a member of the Czarist secret police!
I'm reading a series called "A Song of Firer and Ice", and the first book (Game of Thrones) the old king is killed by one of his body guards. Depending on the master, the dog will bite the hand that feeds it.
