2007-03-21 09:55:49 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You're in my dream!0!
2007-03-21 10:29:23 · answer #1 · answered by Alex 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marshall McLuhan had an interesting perspective on that particular question.
He suggested that when we're born, we are centered very much in our selves. Our senses bring information to us, but it is centered very much on the location of our bodies. As we grow - and as technology expands - he thought that a very different situation arose.
To McLuhan, things like television and radio weren't just devices or entertainments, they were SENSORY ORGANS. By watching a TV, he argued, you were in a sense BECOMING the TV. And thus you know things that are on TV in almost the same sense that you know things you have personally seen. An email from your friend may hold the same significance as the voice of your friend. In this sense HOW something is presented can be as significant as WHAT information it contains, because the medium controls how you interact with that information (one of his most famous expressions is, 'the medium is the message').
This, he thought, creates a breaking down and a building up. If you 'see' wherever there is a video camera, then in a sense you are almost everywhere in the world at once (his term for this is the 'global village'). And if data is as real to you as other stimuli, then the data itself becomes a commodity which can be bought, sold, and traded (and far better and faster than the actual real stuff).
Since we see that you use a computer, then perhaps the McLuhanesque answer to your question is that your location is currently smeared over most of North America and Europe, with bits of the rest of the world liberally thrown in. You percieve, interact with, and even generate effects that can easily be anywhere in those regions.
Vast. Truly vast.
2007-03-21 17:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Earth
2007-03-21 16:59:24 · answer #3 · answered by me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on what you mean by *I*.
People can be physically present, but in their mind, they are on vacation somewhere. If asked, they'd probably say that they were on the beach or something like that.
A more interesting question. Do YOU know where you are at?
2007-03-21 17:06:50 · answer #4 · answered by siddartha360 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just sitting in front of ur PC
thinking wht to ask
and
how to answer these questions
in Y !A
2007-03-21 17:01:48 · answer #5 · answered by n_joy555 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right here with me. Pick me for best answer again and I'll keep starring your questions.
2007-03-22 15:29:25 · answer #6 · answered by customcat2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In front of a computer asking ridiculous questions.
2007-03-21 17:04:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Your at Tory's house.
Love and blessings Don
2007-03-21 20:34:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are everywhere and anywhere, always and forever, from alpha to omega, womb to tomb.
2007-03-21 17:05:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
on earth most likely
2007-03-21 16:59:27 · answer #10 · answered by ::penguins:: 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋