Food is important for health and happiness. Every culture perfects their culinary art and takes pride in their food. Most important activities in all cultures revolve around food. Different cultures and religions suggest what one should eat and what is…
Objective Self 6: From an individual to society
An individual is just an individual. And each individual is unique. In a human society, individuals interact and associate in many ways. Also, many human beings are related to each other along many dimensions ranging from their living area, profession,…
Objective Self 5: Finally We may have Objective Self
As discussed above, the quantified-self movement is an important step in bringing scientific framework to understand an individual based on data collected continuously. This is the first time in history of humanity that this has become feasible. The early stages…
Objective Self 4: You are the Most Important.
To each of us, the most important object or entity is self. All human beings are interested in understanding self to maximize satisfaction from their life. This satisfaction maximization requires having a better model for individual life. Most sociological and…
Objective Self 3: Quantified Self is a step towards Objective Self
The 21st century started with significantly advanced storage, processing, sensing, and communication technologies. All these have resulted in popularization of strong data-dependent approaches. Big Data became the biggest buzz word one can imagine. Since scientific approaches emphasized observation and systematic…