Throughout history human beings have objected to being enslaved and have responded in myriad ways ranging from individual shirking, alcoholism, flight, and suicide to arson, murdering owners, and mass rebellion.
These networks, and the Internet in general, are the culmination of Being's (human existence) replacement with beings (objects) — with the global technological organization of the world.
Ironically, in the discipline itself, 'materials' generally refers to ideas and the way the mind organizes them: melodies, rhythms, processes, structure, i.e. everything other than physical beings, objects or forces.
That being said, as it happens, the life-changing course I took in high school that got me interested in new music was called "Materials of Music". Ironically, in that course, and in the discipline, "materials" means ideas and the way the mind organizes them: melodies, rhythms, processes, structure, i.e. everything OTHER than physical beings, objects or forces.
Gorampa defines "conventional truth" as that which appears to ordinary beings: objects, concepts, words, and so on.
But 'being' can be grasped in different ways, and Maritain distinguishes, for example, between sensible being ("the object first attained by the human intellect") and being as being (which is the object of metaphysics).
So, e.g., an object's being extended, being colored, being related to other objects, etc., are all held to be states of affairs (Sachverhalte).
He distinguished between 'general metaphysics' (or ontology), the study of being as such, and the various branches of 'special metaphysics', which study the being of objects of various special sorts, such as souls and material bodies.
