Life

Okay, so the interview this week in Second Life basically accomplished what this class is about. We debated life, whether it is in reality or in a virtual world, it doesn't matter. Everything we do is a part of our life. If you decide to sleep, that is part of your life. If you decide to go play a sport, that is your life. Even participating in virtual world is a part of your real life.

It was asked on Tuesday, "what is life?" Well you could publish a book on that, in fact just about everyone and their brother has, but it does make you think. Life is really just a string of memories. After all, what makes us who we are? Our Personality? Well technically our personality is how we act because of past experiences. So in essence, life is truly what we remember from our past.

The example of the gold fish works best. They have a 30 second life span, because all they can do is remember/pay attention for 30 seconds at a time. If humans could only remember 30 seconds at a time, then our life span would be shortened to 30 seconds because we would never know that anytyhing existed previous to those 30 seconds. It's all really confusing, but if you sit down and think, and ponder on it, then you realize just how interesting this can be.

And there is my Aristotle-esq attempt at figuring out life! haha