categories.

Categories are useful for making sense of the world. They make information approachable. The problem is that they're constructs. They don't define human thought patterns or tell us how people truly process stimuli. Humans invented a mode of rational thought, the scientific method, and systems of logic, but these mechanisms are precisely that. The human is not solely a machine; we may understand ourselves through technological metaphors, but these only help us make sense of parts of ourselves. At the end of the day, humans are raw and organic. We search for meaning. In everything. We hope for an "aha!" moment, for a time when we will be launched into existential awareness of our being and being in general, or of God. Modern atheism purports that this age of Reason makes it nonsensical, therefore unthinkable, to believe in a metaphysical, supernatural, or all-encompassing Spirit. But we still believe! Why do we still believe? There must be something in our nature that seeks out and responds to the immaterial. I don't think the argument, "That's not rational," holds any weight. We are not rational beings. We do not make decisions based on logic. We make them based on gut feelings, emotional responses tangled up with past experience. I no longer wish to place my personality into categories. I am not a scholar, an artist, a fashionista, a Christian, a spouse, a woman, a daughter, or a friend. I am a human being and many things comprise who I am. I am not required to explain myself categorically because I do not communicate with Computers. Are we losing something profound to our existence - our past, present, and future - when we yearn to become machines at the cost of losing our muddied, hysterical, mysterious humanity?