I saw atlpagan‘s farewell post just now.

Hmm…..

I wonder if the world is like that, with its planes of existence. One, like himself, could see a futher, greater geographical range, but still far less worth, in communication on the digital plane compared to interaction on the physical plane.

However, I personally don’t think that one is ever truly “offline”, nor do I attach the term “online” to communication and/or interaction on the digital plane, since such is pretty much a misnomer.

The digital plane has its Internet; the physical plane has its “world” or “Earth”; and so forth. Its all pretty much different manifestations of the same thing, anyway.

So I guess….when you are born, its just like a new computer when you first start using it. You’re born at a former time in the past, just like some still-existing computers hail from further back than alot of the ones which come out these days.

Thus, the place and time in which you were born will have a direct role to play in how you interpret what you see and hear; same as how the time and company which made a Commodore 64 (if they are still existing?) will take a pivotal role in how that computer will take on whatever happens to show up on the monitor.

In many ways, we ascend in stature and knowledge, while at many points, we take some serious hits to our physicality and psyche; a computer will get upgrades and will be expanded in terms of range of capability, while at some points, it will pick up nasty viruses and bugs, sometimes debilitating in some areas, some which will be carried for the rest of the life of the computer.

We get older, wiser, and probably a bit more senile. Computers get older, ever the more knowledgeable about the world and itself, and, yes, will be letting the age get to it.

We die. Computers crash.

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We are reincarnated, (possibly) depending upon our karma.

We can always get a new desktop, (definately) depending on how much we have in the bank.

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So thus, computers, while not possessing the “brain power” of the average human being, goes through pretty much the same extent and staging of life as one of us in the physical.

Furthermore, since we are the users of computers, primarily for maintaining our digital presence on the Internet, we can thus come to the conclusion that the computer is but a manifestation of self.

So, thus, the body = the computer.