Humanization

Some of my previous posts have been miserable failures of attempts to humanize soulless matter. This one isn’t about humanizing objects and other such matters. It is rather about dehumanizing ourselves.

The word in context - humanizing - may slightly differ here; as in it means “giving life to” or “making human of” After all we should have the freedom of expression, shouldn’t we?

Most of us tend to connect ourselves in a strange manner to the vehicles we own, our beds (specially when away from home), machinery and other equipment. Every person has someTHING that he or she is emotionally connected to. SomeTHING that only death can part us from. A childhood toy, some creative software application, a book or anything at all? Now we cannot deny that can we? Pets and plants are at a stage between the lifeless and the living. But here let us just stick with those connections that are solely materialistic.

It is definitely not a bad thing. But is it a good thing?

In the process of making mutual connections with these so called mechanistic soul-mates, do we tend to loose the humanness in us too? Most people today are proud of the fact of being semi-human. Lost with industrialization and hooked on by technology so much that we imply ourselves as those that are little good for anything else other than fixing up something mechanic. Are we really meant to be so?

Where has all the good sense of humour and romance gone to? The cheerfulness of the hearts and the music of the voices have perished. All we do is think mechanically, talk mechanically, act mechanically and in the process, forget that we are human. Isn’t being human surely the highest of all possible states? Then why is that we strive to degrade ourselves into the machine-man age? Do we agree that the best of both man and machine will merge to evolve into a more extra-ordinary piece of work that has much more than a soul or mind? With the AI attempts of making the machine into a man… is the reverse really coming true? Well, it seems like not far away is the era of man mating with machine.

However, to all those of us who believe that we MUST NOT loose that human touch let us put together ourselves and be a little more human each day. Because if we bring evolution upon ourselves too fast, I seriously cannot imagine where it will end