subjugated by robots (?)

i'm not interested in having my feeling, believing, or thinking done for me by a machine.

i like machines.  we can do really cool things with them.... electronic music, for example.  

it has occurred to me that the reliance on 'objectivity' as defined by the current scientific paradigm is equivalent to having reality dictated to us by a machine.   this is because scientific and clinical research is performed and verified through the use of technology - technology designed based on our current understanding of physics and the world of material objects.   this approach is often used to invalidate personal experience.  which just seems completely ridiculous to me.

one aspect of chinese medicine, meditation, internal martial arts (qigong, taiji, baguazhang, etc), and similar practices is the ongoing cultivation of awareness of internal processes - the experiential experience.  attempting to measure this with a machine or defined objective metric is usually completely irrelevant.

granted, i believe that it is important to have a means to validate what people individually witness and perceive, to 'check' what may be the process of an overacting ego - which is why many of these traditions have unbroken lineages.     the master/student, teacher/apprentice relationship can be supremely effective in this way.

i like science, i like machines.  but i'm not going to willingly enslave myself to them, which it seems like a lot of people are unconsciously doing.