Richard Dawkins, an outstanding biologist, said about our lives and its biological essence: «Life is just bytes and bytes and bytes of digital information».
In the same line, wouldn’t it possible to reduce love to bytes, bytes, and more bytes, or to any other measure rather close to nothing?
Think of romantic love, for instance. We may see it as mere illusions of our mind, as a mechanism induced by genes, driving lovers to see enchanted princes and princesses in banal beings, before they sink again into reality.
And concerning our other loves, aren’t they basically private islands, things that genes feed and death extinguishes and takes with it? And as to our collective lives, isn’t it true that they are mainly ruled by competition and egoisms, or by the law of profit, and not exactly by love?
Yes. It’s possible to diminish love into insignificant unities. Or, if we want, to reduce it to bytes, bytes and more bytes.
But there is another view: without love, what would our lives be? Which would be their meaning? Without friendship, love experiences, would it be worthwhile to live?
We may not always note it, but love is peeping into many of our daily acts and into multiple recesses of our private life. Without love we wouldn’t be humans. Without the feelings linked to love – brotherly acts, generosity, sympathy – society would be an uninhabitable jungle, and man would be simple machines.
After all, love is much. It’s not all, but it’s impossible to reduce it to just bytes, bytes and more bytes.
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