On 12/22/2012 5:52 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
Thank you, captain obvious.
Man is a three-centered (three-brained if you will) being. Focussing
on only one of the brains is by definition imbalanced.
Bring back the renaissance man.
so, if, say, a person likes computers, but largely lacks either an
emotional or creative side, is this implying that computers somehow took
away their emotions and creativity, or is it more likely the case that
they didn't really have them to begin with?...
like, a person after a while, observing that they rarely feel much of
anything, no longer have much of any real sense of romantic interest,
have little intrinsic creative motivation, are unable to understand
symbolism, tend to see the world in a literal manner, ...
and, then wonder: "so it is? what now?..."
doesn't really seem like it is the computer's fault anymore than a
person also noting that they are also partially color-blind.
unless I have missed the point?...
a more obvious downside though is that generally, doing lots of stuff on
a computer keeps the user nailed down to their chair. even though they
might realize that getting up and doing stuff might be better for their
health, doing so is time away from working on stuff...
I guess a mystery then would be if, some time in the future, there will
be ways of using computers which don't effectively require the users to
be sitting in a chair all day (ideally without compromising either the
user experience or capabilities). (granted, yes, traditional exercise
can be tiring/unpleasant though...).
as for the mentioned practice, it seems like it could conflict with a
persons' religious beliefs (many people consider these types of things
as being occult).
more often a person might do something like memory-verses or similar
instead (like, memorize and recite John 3:16 or similar, ...).
or such...
Julian
On 23/12/2012, at 4:28 AM, John Pratt <jpra...@gmail.com
<mailto:jpra...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I want to tell everyone on this list about something I found.
Maybe someone out there hears what I say, thinks I am pretty
crazy for saying it to an entire mailing list, but appreciates it.
That is the kind of person I am sometimes. I might tell a CEO
not to use high-class mustard on a hotdog and genuinely wonder afterwards
why he gets angry. So, similarly, I am going to tell all of you to
go to FalunDafa.org <http://falundafa.org/> because this is the best
thing I have done
to extricate myself cognitively from computer prison that we
all live in.
It is true that computers are impressive, but they are also injurious
in other respects and if people won't acknowledge the downsides
to what they do to our cognition, I don't think that is ok, either. I am
actually a generalist on this subject, so I don't take technical stances
on this minor subject or that minor subject inside the vast field of
computer science. But what holds true for me also holds true for you,
that computers draw you in to a certain, narrow type of thinking that
needs to be balanced by true, traditional, /human/ things like music
or dance or art.
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