Tongue twisting titles always encourage me to allow my readers some sort of explanation. In truth, my Electronic Communications class has another assignment dealing with the idea of machines, humans, and the interactions between the two. My major question for this blog entry is how do I, being a person in modern day technological hi jinks, use my body as a high performance machine? Also, how do I not?
Well, let me first say that I do enjoy technology. I don't believe I have ever come right out and said it before, but I enjoy watching movies, playing video games, finding information for practically nothing, and writing on a computer screen, although I do like to outline with pen and paper. I believe these technologies can help us and that we should use them to their fullest extent possible. Unfortunately, I do believe that we are becoming lazy as a society because of these same luxuries that I enjoy, but what the hell... I'M LAZY ANYWAYS. There are moments that I wish we didn't have these technologies, such as when my computer freezes up and I utter profanities I didn't even know were inside of me. Or when my cell phone won't stop ringing so I have to shut it off. But the good by far out ways the bad.
Now that I have that off my chest, to the question at hand. I think that most people use themselves as a high performance machines everyday. You can argue this point, but it doesn't matter what you believe, because look at what machines do. They take in information, run for long periods of time, rest when they are tired, and break down just like humans. I use myself as a storage unit for information everyday, because I am constantly learning something new, if your not then you're doing something wrong. In fact, I like to think of myself as a machine because it helps me cope with the idea of my head exploding from time to time with all the useless shit I learn in a day.
I don't really know how I don't use my self as a machine however, and it's kind of freaking me out. I eat, but you could think of putting information, or even powering a machine as a metaphor for eating. I sleep, but machines have to cool down too. I suppose the only difference is my ability is to have an actual consciousness. Knowing emotions and utilizing them, but then again is that even a good thing. Freaky...
Anyways, I have officially made myself depressed now that I am a machine named the Justin 2000, soon to become obsolete and trashed on the corner of 10th and main. Have a good night though to both Hardware and Wetware alike.
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Don't freak out too much. You aren't a machine. It is just how we idealize ourselves. Food isn't "input," and neither is learning. Each thing you do has its own particular shape and quality--we just analogize it and compare just about EVERYTHING to computation and machinery.
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