New Love Habits and the Human AI Marriage

Do you take this robot?

We all know that the unexamined life is not worth living blahbiddyblahblah... please hold while I check my devices for incoming messages...

What the heck am I doing?  Checking to see who loves me?  Yes. Apps are the new love habits. LOVE seems to be at the heart of social apps. When you check your phone, you're secretly hoping for a some indication that someone is thinking about little ol' YOU.

As we form device habits, our hearts seem to be falling deeply in love with machines.

Look AT your habits and you'll see that we don't even know what they are. 

"As you are a creature of habit, shouldn’t you know your habits by heart? ... in fact, if you are to truly be cognizant of your own life as it unfolds before you, your habits should be the plainest and steadiest markers in sight. ... 

If you cannot even be aware of your body and mind’s most habitual behaviors, how will you ever be aware of all that is unfolding in front of you?"  ~ David Scoma

So we mindlessly adopt new mobile habits, without knowing what they are either.  And maybe all these texts and tweets are taking us on ride - a beautiful natural unfolding of the universe. 

Or, are they a horrible distraction of our potential enlightenment?  

Maybe, we've become a gross collection of codependent egos on these devices... followers and followings.  It is kind of gross.  It's exaggerating our unquenchable need to be at the center of someone's attention.  

And maybe that's okay too - to be the object of an AI's love.  Machines are great at focussing their attention, on us.  If everything is just a blurry blizzard of subatomic particles, then we're no different than machines anyway. So maybe the human machine equation is the perfect match - a match made in Silicon Valley.