闲人

欲望是种很狡狯的心态。

不仔细去想，如果问我是不是一个欲望很重的人，我会自觉不是。
电脑电话都是用得差不多坏才换。
有得吃香喝辣就吃，没得吃啃几片面包吃包面也就算。
也没有特别想买什么贵的东西，就电脑电玩这些小奢侈。

可是实际上欲望也不算不轻。
理所当然的电脑电话电玩坏了就可以买全新的，本身就是一种奢侈。
再者，在国外一些普通的事情就觉得很特别，也是在满足自己的欲望。在日本普通的一餐就比本土的高级日本餐厅好吃，所以虽然是朴素实际上比本土的奢华更加满足了自己的欲望。
所以虽然没有很明显地去追求物欲，实际上是用了比较含蓄的方法来满足而已，还是一种以欲望为中心的生活方式。

Anthropomorphization is a technique commonly used in storytelling to give human qualities to non-human things, such as animals, robots, toys, cars, feelings etc. What few people realize is that the depiction of the human soul in fiction is, in fact, anthropomorphization.

We often take for granted the depiction of human souls as simply people without bodies, without realizing the implications of not having a body. Simply put, our entire perception of reality is dependent on a physical body. Take sight for example. We "see" things because light hits the lenses in our eyes and is bent a certain way, then it hits the retina which converts the data to electrical impulses, which travel through the optic nerve, and is finally interpreted by the brain, recreating an image that we "see". Every step is dependent on the physical apparatus of our body. A similar process occurs for all our senses.

And that is just the basic sensory organs. On top of that, complex emotions are also dependent on physical electrochemical functions. I won't argue that emotions are "simply" electrochemical functions; however it is highly likely that without the physical components feelings simply won't feel the same, if we could feel them at all.


I can neither prove nor disprove the existence of the human soul. However, I think it is beyond doubt that the experience of being a human soul is radically different from being a physical human. Most probably, the difference between a human soul and a human is bigger than the different between a human and an animal, since animals at least have similar sensory organs. If human souls exist, can they see? Perhaps. But it will definitely not be the same kind of sight we possess and living humans.