Notes to Self

#1
It's not so much that we are merely machines, but that machines are modeled after simpler versions of ourselves.

#2
We must not, cannot accept that we are merely machines because then we will either go insane or become something that is even simpler than we might believe we are: rational beings. If we become completely rational then we will become dehumanized. If we become rational then not only will we become incompassionate, but also accept the status quo, which would cause a slow disintegration of western society. "Western society" because over the past 200 years, the west has become more atheistic. If, instead of becoming rational, we go insane, the only thing that will go wrong is that we will lose a since of responsibility that we should have, for at least parts or our lives.

#3
Technical understanding of death. Not an existential perspective.