Monday, October 11, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Movement
Movement
A runner sprints at a speed of 27.79 mph , a German sports car rockets down the autobahn at 200 miles per hour, a military jet fighter crashes through the air at 2.5 times the speed of sound, a space shuttle takes off at over 2.5million Newton’s, a single flash light powered by a double A battery lights up. Which one of these were the fastest? What is movement? How fast can humans safely travel? What does it mean to be an individual? Why are all these questions related?
Everyday we move our bodies from location to location in the effort of making ourselves happy or happier in the long run, this is basic human sociology. Before printed paper people communicated via verbal communication, then through writing, the telegraph, telephones, radios, televisions, and now the internet. Currently there are over 1.8 billion internet users, roughly one fourth of the population of the earth; over 4 billion people have cell phones, 67 percent of the population of the earth, to which those cell phones can be connected to the internet. There are no limits anymore, to who we can communicate with, when, to how many. Every day computers get faster, everyday internet connections get faster, and everyday more people join the digital revolution, through the internet, connecting to the rest of the world. But I am getting ahead of myself, first what does it mean to be an individual?
Is it are muscles that make us who we are? Our blood? Our skin? Our names? Or is it simply our minds? What is conciseness? Thought? We’ll no one can agree where the mind is located within the brain everyone can agree that the mind is created by the brain. So if who we are is our mind, and our mind is created and controlled by the brain, then our brain is who we are. But what makes us different from each other? Our thoughts, experiences, emotions, and ideas, are all unique, but what makes us move? What makes us happy or happier in the future some would say so then how do we decide what makes us happy or happier in the future? Our minds. So then, what makes us individuals is our minds, which also make us move, and makes us happy, but are all our thoughts our own?
Since the moment we were born ideas have bombarded us, from our parents, friends, advertisements, the internet, and yes even graffiti, all communicate ideas, theories, thoughts, philosophy, to which we weigh, and then decide to adopt to our own way of thinking, and rationalizing, thus affecting our minds because our minds are composed of these things. So then if I have an idea and you agree, and adopt it into your everyday thinking then has not a part of my mind become a part of yours? In essence, yes. If an idea is powerful it will spread, like a virus, self replicating, contagious, resilient, impossible to eradicate as long as the idea is recorded whether in the mind of a individual, or a billion people. If a billion people believe a single idea however small, then aren’t their minds simply the extension of the one who created the idea? An idea can rip apart the social fabric of a society, create innovation, move a mountain, write history, and the creator could be thousands of miles away or thousands of years dead, but yet still affecting change, faster and farther than the individual can physically travel, extending far away through time and space. But why does this all matter?
What was the fastest thing in that list at the start? It was the light, traveling at 299,792,458 meters per second, light is the fastest thing in the universe. Today scientists are working on machines that will use light to send information at blistering speeds; doing to today’s internet speeds into what the space shuttle did to the runner. If who we are is minds, minds are composed of ideas, ideas can be sent over the internet, and the internet can move at speeds approaching the speed of light, then in essence we can send parts of ourselves shooting across the earth to reach people and alter their minds to our own through ideas, the fastest we can travels is only limited by the speed at which we can communicate, and the effectiveness of our ideas. Ideas are powerful, so communication is powerful, it can be a tool for creation or an instrument of destruction, and it will be used for both, this is true and raw power, how will you use it?
A runner sprints at a speed of 27.79 mph , a German sports car rockets down the autobahn at 200 miles per hour, a military jet fighter crashes through the air at 2.5 times the speed of sound, a space shuttle takes off at over 2.5million Newton’s, a single flash light powered by a double A battery lights up. Which one of these were the fastest? What is movement? How fast can humans safely travel? What does it mean to be an individual? Why are all these questions related?
Everyday we move our bodies from location to location in the effort of making ourselves happy or happier in the long run, this is basic human sociology. Before printed paper people communicated via verbal communication, then through writing, the telegraph, telephones, radios, televisions, and now the internet. Currently there are over 1.8 billion internet users, roughly one fourth of the population of the earth; over 4 billion people have cell phones, 67 percent of the population of the earth, to which those cell phones can be connected to the internet. There are no limits anymore, to who we can communicate with, when, to how many. Every day computers get faster, everyday internet connections get faster, and everyday more people join the digital revolution, through the internet, connecting to the rest of the world. But I am getting ahead of myself, first what does it mean to be an individual?
Is it are muscles that make us who we are? Our blood? Our skin? Our names? Or is it simply our minds? What is conciseness? Thought? We’ll no one can agree where the mind is located within the brain everyone can agree that the mind is created by the brain. So if who we are is our mind, and our mind is created and controlled by the brain, then our brain is who we are. But what makes us different from each other? Our thoughts, experiences, emotions, and ideas, are all unique, but what makes us move? What makes us happy or happier in the future some would say so then how do we decide what makes us happy or happier in the future? Our minds. So then, what makes us individuals is our minds, which also make us move, and makes us happy, but are all our thoughts our own?
Since the moment we were born ideas have bombarded us, from our parents, friends, advertisements, the internet, and yes even graffiti, all communicate ideas, theories, thoughts, philosophy, to which we weigh, and then decide to adopt to our own way of thinking, and rationalizing, thus affecting our minds because our minds are composed of these things. So then if I have an idea and you agree, and adopt it into your everyday thinking then has not a part of my mind become a part of yours? In essence, yes. If an idea is powerful it will spread, like a virus, self replicating, contagious, resilient, impossible to eradicate as long as the idea is recorded whether in the mind of a individual, or a billion people. If a billion people believe a single idea however small, then aren’t their minds simply the extension of the one who created the idea? An idea can rip apart the social fabric of a society, create innovation, move a mountain, write history, and the creator could be thousands of miles away or thousands of years dead, but yet still affecting change, faster and farther than the individual can physically travel, extending far away through time and space. But why does this all matter?
What was the fastest thing in that list at the start? It was the light, traveling at 299,792,458 meters per second, light is the fastest thing in the universe. Today scientists are working on machines that will use light to send information at blistering speeds; doing to today’s internet speeds into what the space shuttle did to the runner. If who we are is minds, minds are composed of ideas, ideas can be sent over the internet, and the internet can move at speeds approaching the speed of light, then in essence we can send parts of ourselves shooting across the earth to reach people and alter their minds to our own through ideas, the fastest we can travels is only limited by the speed at which we can communicate, and the effectiveness of our ideas. Ideas are powerful, so communication is powerful, it can be a tool for creation or an instrument of destruction, and it will be used for both, this is true and raw power, how will you use it?
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