My Lens

Each Individual has there own way to look at the world. It's definitely a tautology of sorts, so it's obviously true. Each person's individual experiences makes up how they see the world. I figured that as my last post, I would change things up a little and talk about me, and a few core ideas that define my actions and beliefs, and what they mean to me.

Humanist - I think that if I could say that I have faith in anything, I could say that I have faith in humans. I love humans, and I always have. Some people assume that this means that I've not had bad experiences with people. This is an untrue assumption. I have had a number of bad experiences with people. Still, I believe that almost every human has the capacity to be good and kind and so on. I believe that all humans share the same basic human rights, and that we ought to work to view all people as equal. We can do so much! It is and we are so incredible. I hope to continue loving humans. When discussing the future, I tend to look at humans in a positive manner. I want to give people as many chances as I can, even if it hurts me. One of the things that makes me the most sad is when people chose to disappoint me when i gave them the option to easily avoid doing so. 

Transhumanist - Transhumanism is the augmentation of humans through technology. I think that technology is amazingly awesome, largely because we are using it as a tool to improve the human condition. I think that technology will continue to play a large part in our futures; it could give us a way out of many of the problems that we currently face. However, it could also bring about many negatives. Combined with humanism I think that humans will learn to use technology to our advantage, and that eventually humans will have improved bodies, will be able to explore the universe, and will know so much more about the universe

Pacificist - I am a pacifist by nature and by practice. I seldom experience anger, and when I do it's even more rarely the kind of anger that is channeled through physical aggression. In addition to that though, I intentionally try not to harm things. I do not kill mosquitoes, unless there is sufficient reason to do so (one biting my arm doesn't count, but 20 biting me in a car that I need to drive where opening the window would only serve to let in more of them does). Basically, if there is a way to not kill something, I will take that option. I will go largely out of my way to save even hornets, and spiders. 

Well, there they are. They are decently important to me. There are many more things that are important to  me. If you want to know more, please ask me. Good-bye class. 

What Is There?

So, the semester is coming to a close. I suppose I wanted to talk about my understanding on reality and our perception. I am a bit of a fallibilist, so I am not really certain about the extent of the existence of the world outside ourselves. Still, for the sake of functioning with the life that I have, I operate within the world that I seem to operate in regardless of whether or not it actually exists.

I suppose I continue to operate with this theory as the foundation: my thoughts match my perceptions which may or may not match consensus perceptions which may or may not match reality. Actually, I am not sure (go figure) about the connection between my thoughts and my perception, given that my thoughts about my perception tell me that my perceptions may be entirely wrong even if it feels as though they are right. Oh Aramark! This is quite a mess. 

Still, I have an identity in this world, regardless of it's reality. It would definitely be sad if my identity was based entirely on a falsehood, but I am not really sure what to do about that. I am realizing this this particular post is going to end on a rather sour note. I will do my best to make the next (read: final) note happier