Is technology making us less human?

[Edwardo Piet]

I think humanness is emotion.

LMAO, no.

(1) Other animals feel emotions too. (2) Emotions are merely one thing that makes us human (3) There are many other arbitrary things you could have selected that equally make us human.

You could have just as easily said "I think humanness is wearing clothes. Wouldn't you agree?"... in fact that would actually be more accurate (or less inaccurate) than the answer you gave. Other animals have emotions but other animals don't wear clothes.

And again, the ironic thing about suggesting that technology is making us less human is technology is perhaps the best possible single example of what separates us from the rest of the animals.

This doesn't make us special, of course. As all animals are special in their own way and saying every animal is special is just another way to say no animal is special.

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No.  It is a description.   You feeling of humanness is part of being humanness.   Other people’s way of life that you may regard as inhuman is just as much a part of humanness.

The only things that are inhuman are things that are nicer done by any human or never an attribute of any human.   Being trump, for example.

Good thing I know word salad from reason.

Yeah you do. Reason means "Simple shit Kit can understand" and word salad means "Complicated shit too complicated for Kit to understand."

I mean if it's too complicated for you to make sense of it then it must make no sense, right? (A perfect example is yourself on the free will thread. Although, that's not even complicated it's a clear and very basic logical contradiction that you fail to spot. Although... complicated and "complicated for Kit" are two very different things! I mean, CL is a theist so she believes in a magical soul... what was your excuse?).

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I get cranky when I see a bunch of people in a waiting room or bus stop with their eyes glued to screens, completely ignorant of their surroundings and I want to slap their phones from their hands.
Don't get me started on those who do it while walking down the street.
Are they less human? No.
These stupid creatures are too human.

I agree. Too human.

What pisses me off is not people at bus stops or waiting rooms glued to their screens though. They're not bothering or harming me in any way. What pisses me off is the following. Allow me to provide two examples:

(1) People walking on the sidewalk looking at their phones so they are not only much slower at walking and totally unaware of the fact that I want to get the fuck past them... they are not only completely oblivious: But they also stop in the middle of fucking walking. It's like so self-absorbed it's borderline solipsistic. And not only that they're often so absorbed they don't hear me saying over and over "Excuse me please. Excuse me please. Excuse me please. Excuse me please. EXCUSE ME PLEASE. Sorry you didn't hear me the first few times and I've been waiting here a while."

(2) People talking extremely loudly on buses or trains to other people on the phone... and laughing and swearing extremely loudly... as if no one else on the bus/train exists and as if they have no responsibility to actually give a fuck about the people around them at all.

Both cases are example of not just complete obliviousness to other people (that in itself doesn't bother me) but also complete obliviousness that affects other people. And that REALLY pisses me off. I don't mind self-absorbedness when it isn't unfair to others... but when it is I get very frustrated indeed.