coming back to electronic communication as a sort of a sixth sense..
<<I guess I'll define what a sense is to me. It is something that the
brain uses to detect the outside world. But, we are "talking", with our
hands/eyes. We are "seeing" what was just "touched" in. You are percieving me touching with my hands and making words you may understand. Since i can't hear you. Also, I can't see you. So I am blind in a way to see who i'm communicating with.>>

Wow!! I liked that bit veeeeeery much.. it even sounded a bit like poetry.. especially the underlined part (I'm into poetry btw and I write stuff from time to time) and to me what you just wrote really had a touch of poetry in it.. have you ever tried writing poetry, btw?
but coming back to the subject, yes I agree with you here... and that's what I think about an awful lot - I mean, the virual world which is in its beginnings of evolution (humans playing God, here btw.. ;-). Virtual world as in the internet and e-mail etc., of course. I very much doubt that this virtual world could (in a way) replace our real world, concerning friends above all. Just because (as you've mentioned) we are blind to who the people we talk on the net really are (not solely to how they look like, but also how they behave in real life.. I mean this sort of communication is very limited if you look at it from this perspective, don't you think?) And this is why I chose this kind of virtual interaction with people (--> creed discussion list) because I'm out for discussion on certain topics and not really getting involved in any sort of senseless chat! (this is why I was so sceptical about this list in the beginning).. I know that this may sound strange, but I don't mean it the "I-hate-people-in-general-attitude" kinda way.. It's more of a "I-want-deep-people-to-be-my-friends" way.. so as you see I am veeery selective and demanding
Could you ask a blind person to whom you sometimes talk on the net if he/she minded talking to me? I'd really be glad to get into a discussion with a blind person

<<Actually, I do see us as the strongest species on Earth. To quote Kevin
Siembieda, "...(...) What we humans do isn't survival. It's conquest! It's
complete domination of all life forms. And when there are no others to
dominate, we turn against each other, killing in anger and on whim."
Well, that was a long quote and might even have been a little ways off
topic, but I think that it illustrates pray well why man and not some
physically stronger species dominates the planet.>> yep I pretty much agree with you Jackson, although Siembieda mentions not the kinds of things I'd mention to show that we are the dominant species - I'd probably go more for the positive aspects.. but I guess the negative ones are more realistc, huh?