The Forgotten Basic Question in Our Technological Era
When our children Felix and Iris were 4 and 2 years old we visited my parents in Lesotho.
My father had to set up a medicine factory for cheap and good medicine.
We walked a lot in the pristine mountains and passed little villages with characteristic houses, called Rondavels.
We saw a man a long time sitting along the road and we were interested what he was doing.
Our guide got the answer from him:
I sit being.
“Ho I Ketla”
Wel, in our western culture this is not a legitimate answer.
When you are alone , you always have to do something, otherwise it is suspicious.
A man standing near a lake alone….. But when he is fishing , has a dog next to him, no problem.
Culture has to do with it.
Being seems for me the dominant awareness of yourselves in a physical or spiritual world.
It has to do with happiness and purpose.
When AI can contribute to this , it has human value.
When our children Felix and Iris were 4 and 2 years old we visited my parents in Lesotho.
My father had to set up a medicine factory for cheap and good medicine.
We walked a lot in the pristine mountains and passed little villages with characteristic houses, called Rondavels.
We saw a man a long time sitting along the road and we were interested what he was doing.
Our guide got the answer from him:
I sit being.
“Ho I Ketla”
Wel, in our western culture this is not a legitimate answer.
When you are alone , you always have to do something, otherwise it is suspicious.
A man standing near a lake alone….. But when he is fishing , has a dog next to him, no problem.
Culture has to do with it.
Being seems for me the dominant awareness of yourselves in a physical or spiritual world.
It has to do with happiness and purpose.
When AI can contribute to this , it has human value.