The purpose of this paper is to juxtapose the idea of ‘Fragmentation’ in technology with concepts in theoretical philosophy.
The concept of ‘Fragmentation’
Fragmentation is a technological phenomenon which occurs in computers. The process takes place in the hard disk when a file or data is being deleted or saved or changed. The changes made are being saved at another location, different from the location where the original file is being stored. Additional changes keep getting saved at different locations leading to fragmentation of both the data and the hard disk. Due to this, the computer slows down as it has to locate all broken pieces of a file (or information) and arrange them in an order.
Now, hypothetically replace a
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To simplify this, disk defragmentation brings all the changes to the word file saved at multiple locations to a single location in a certain order and arranges the modification in a matrix. This makes it easier for the computer to locate data faster with more efficiency. It reduces the extra energy and time that is being taken to find the scattered pieces of information. Now, the process of disk defragmentation could be connected to an exercise like meditation. Meditation acts therapeutically as a cure to the inefficiency of the mind. Meditation is a tool used to have a tryst with eternal enlightenment and delete all forms of negative radiations within the peripheries of human mind.
Due to fragmentation our ideas, thoughts and judgements are spread in an uneven pattern in our mind and we find it hard to reach a conclusion during unfavourable circumstances and we choose the short-cut of ignoring the problem. But, as we know ignorance can help only in the “short term”, eventually one has to seek long-term solutions to problems. Reuben Blades has said – “I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.”Ignorance not only leads to the degradation of a society but also an individual being.
The process of meditation is just like disk defragmentation, it re-arranges the thoughts in the matrix of our minds. It keeps all the arguments that self-contradict in the desired order and propriety, making us capable enough to distinguish
Meditation is very difficult to describe and can only truly be explained once experienced. It is the practice of mental concentration leading ultimately through a sequence of stages to the final goal of spiritual freedom, nirvana. The purpose of Buddhist meditation is to free ourselves from the delusion and thereby put an end to both ignorance and craving. The Buddhists describe the culminating trance-like state as transient; final Nirvana requires the insight of wisdom. The exercises that are meant to develop wisdom involve meditation on the true nature of reality or the conditioned and unconditioned elements that make up all phenomena. The goal of meditation is to develop a concept in the mind.
Meditation is very difficult to describe and can only truly be explained once experienced. It is the practice of mental concentration leading ultimately through a sequence of stages to the final goal of spiritual freedom, nirvana. The purpose of Buddhist meditation is to free ourselves from the delusion and thereby put an end to both ignorance and craving. The Buddhists describe the culminating trance-like state as transient; final Nirvana requires the insight of wisdom. The exercises that are meant to develop wisdom involve meditation on the true nature of reality or the conditioned and unconditioned elements that make up all phenomena. The goal of meditation is to develop a concept in the mind.
For more than five thousand years, meditation has been a part of human life. Though it has its roots in Hinduism, most religions throughout the globe practice one form of meditation or another.
Blocks are the logical records which breaks the area used by a partition; clusters are physical bodies of a hard disk. Hard disk is usually broken in to cylinders and cylinders are broken down in to clusters. Most HDD arrive from the factory with a low level pattern where, block size = 512 bytes. The NTFS file system can produce cluster sizes of a multiple of 512 having a default of 8 blocks for every cluster. Size of a block is multiple of size of cluster, such that a logical block will fit a definite number of physical clusters “one file one cluster”. That is, in every cluster will be installed information belonging at most to a single file. As an aftermath, when scripting a file in a hard disk, some cluster remains incompletely filled or fully unused. As the operating system can only write an entire block, it pursues that the idle space should be fit with some strings of bytes that can be used by others. It should be remembered that these data are saved in a disk because of the operating system curbs to write only on an entire block, they could be detected by locating
The defragmentation process starts. Once the optimisation process is complete, the Current Status of the C: drive shows the percentage of the drive defragmented.
According to me, it is a system of concentration or distraction of human mind and body used to reach a higher level of awareness, physical performance, concentration or relaxation generally created from an internal source. The meditation can be practiced for stress management, anger management, control over anxiety, improved awareness and improvement of cognitive skills. To meditate, first find a quite area, then sit cross legged, back
Meditation causes you to think on God and his Excellencies, which can possibly change your life, all by itself.
Technological determinism is a term developed by Marshal McLuhan, a theorist in the study of new media. By technological determinism, McLuhan refers to technology having the power to change societies and influence our cultures. In this essay I will argue that technology does have the power to change society and influence a civilization, using ideas put forward by Marshal McLuhan. I will also discuss the debate around technological determinism recognizing the claims made by Raymond Williams that society shapes technology as we look back at its emergence and their subsequent control.
Part of Nye’s argument that there is no such thing as technological determinism stems from the fact that even today there are many different cultures throughout the world that each use or refuse to use various technologies. If technological determinism was a legitimate theory then one would see growing homogeneity in the international system but it is quite clear that this is not the case in real life. The true main idea of this article is that there is “not just one future” for humanity because technology has not created a single path that humanity must follow but rather humans still have many choices currently and in the future that will shape the technologies that the different
Meditation is a huge aspect of the Buddhist way of life because meditation allows one to become connected with their inner self. It was believed that Buddha had become awakened through his meditation and realization of what causes his suffering and happiness which led to what is known as the Four Noble Truths. The meditation sessions take place on Saturdays and does not consist of one class where everything is learned, but instead several different classes where things are learned over a period of time. He had said that the first session was just to get to clear your mind and learn the way you think. This is a significant part of the buddhist beliefs because Buddhist adherents believe happiness comes from within, and in order to release all negativity, one must first connect with their innermost thoughts and
Knowledge is the key to these doors, but ignorance is the lock. As a result, an individual who is not willing to challenge their own ignorance will experience a moral death, for lack of knowledge will do nothing but lead them into a vast swamp of decay.
All throughout history Buddhist monks and the eastern religion have been performing meditation, but recently others have been trying it. Meditation is a practice in which someone may train their mind to be in a state of consciousness that benefits their mind and body. Meditation is about paying attention, focusing and being very calm. It sharpens creativity and performance while enhancing relationships. Meditators find when they stop taking things in life so seriously, the self-drops away. They are more direct and absorb life easier.(Ellison 3&6). Meditation has been around for thousands of years. In every religion, the instructions for meditating are the same, only the words differ. There are two major types of meditation that may benefit
Ignorance is not with us all; ignorance is made. And, therefore, ignorance contagious, and must be stopped at all costs-before it consumes all of humanity, leaving the darkest of stains.
In his article, “The Question Concerning Technology”, Martin Heidegger is trying to spread awareness about the steps humanity is taking on the road towards technology today, and is making the kind of dangers technology it brings with it more apparent. Throughout the essay he writes about how concepts such as bringing forth, challenging, standing reserve and granting all of them lead to a concept of revealing. If we follow Heidegger’s definition of technology as form of revealing, technology, in its essence, can be said to be a form. It can be a form because it is a bringing forth in which fate “let[s] what is not yet present [to] arrive into presencing,” (Technology and Values chapter 9 99) into the order of the presence or the real, For if people understand Heidegger correctly, the essence of technology, then, is the graceful process of bringing something forth into presence and, as a mode of revealing a world that has clarified the process. Heidegger takes us