MACHINA!

Machina is Latin for machine. In search of an all consuming term for Robots, cyborgs, androids, robotic exoskeletons and such, I stumbled across this word in Humanities class when we were talking about plays. I gleaned this from the term "Deus Ex Machina" aka"the God in the machine". This was a plot device used in ancient Greece and is still sometimes used today. Basically in these ancient Greek plays, the plot and tension would climb until only the intervention of a God could resolve the situation. So back to my original tread: I have adopted machina to refer to anything robotic, robot like, cybernetic etc. It's just easier to group them all together rather than saying "look at the cyborg/robot/android/Ironman over there." You still can use the other terms, but I think that it's more convenient and a better way to refer to a group of metal and flesh beings. So from now on when ever I refer to machina, you know what I mean. (It also sounds cooler too.)

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Socrates is awesome!

Just another blog from my humanities class. we were learning about Socrates and had to write an insight about what we'd learned. this is what I wrote:

A very important and valid point that Socrates made in his Apology was that the fear of death is foolish and unneeded. Death is unknown to all those who haven't experienced it, and those who have aren't at liberty to discuss it. This gap in Man's knowledge makes him fear and despise it because he can't understand it. Socrates disparages this by pointing out that there's no way of knowing what death will be like, so it stands to reason that what comes after may be better than the present life now. He follows his own counsel and does not fear death, but embraces and welcomes it as a new and more exciting part of life that all must pass through.