Live, dead

Life is defined as the number of possibilities, processes and metrics by which we can judge the human capacity. We judge by the consequences of what does or does not do, man. We analyze, study and predict how their behavior, and the behavior of the majority. And we're talking about the person as a person, only when it shows a unique behavior. But how often do we encounter a unique line of conduct? After all, most often (and including us) lives with the use of certain algorithms in all spheres of activity. This is convenient, functional, familiar. This gives the opportunity to be minimally active, but to benefit the public. This enables to be alive.

Everyone subjectively defines the concept of "live". For some, there is enough in the consciousness to someone - to work from dawn to dusk, and someone feels alive at the next party. But how "live" person, if it does not benefit the public. And this is one of the most important criteria, not life and existence.

To be useful, it is convenient to use the possibility of maneuvering between egoism and altruism. To be able to meet their needs and fulfill the expected work. To be able to choose the work that will provide the whole range of requests of the person, from the profit and ending with a moral pleasure from the work performed.

It is extremely important and the degree of awareness. Yes, the man is very lazy. Our brain is spending a lot of energy when faced with something new. Analysis, synthesis, processing the results and experience - this is extremely time-consuming tasks. It is much easier to use a single algorithm that allows "unload" our thinking apparatus. But here it is to maintain the border between learning the experience of others, and the blind copying of someone else's actions. In the first case - we are a living entity that deliberately to perform certain actions. In the second - we only imitate and pretend to work, without bringing anything qualitatively new. Yes, and more often is required. But do we have enough of this for what would be called a man?

Our consciousness is dead in many situations. We blindly trust the opinion of the majority and the reference to persons rely on coincidence. There is nothing more that we could prove himself as a man. Only a social machine, acting on a seemingly grafted algorithms.

Awareness - that a key characteristic of the person. It is difficult, almost impossible. But we will or people or anything that stood still in development. Selecting the primitive and dualistic, but he is able to coerce us to do more. We are in a situation where the aware or hopelessness of the situation and resist it. Or meekly accept conventional mechanisms. First - it is difficult and unpleasant. Second - natural and ordinary.

Selection - only for us.