Saturday, December 16, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
Quite Interesting
"I can know a stone only because I am more than a stone. I can remember my past. (My present is alive; my past is dead.) I can know and love my body only because I am more than my body. As the projecting machine must be more than the images projected, the knower must be more than the objects known. Therefore I am more than my body"
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What are We?
The measure of consciousness is the difference between what one knows, and what one wants to know.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
A Theory has to break
The definition of theory (as suggested by hawking in A brief history of time) has 'loss of information' problem. It occurs when we try to have the same result with less information than it requires. If a theory has to model an universe with lesser number of paramter than the reality, then no matter how good it fits to observation for a long time, it would eventually fall apart, since it has used less information than is actually in reality. Now the goodness of theory is really how long can it go before it breaks. A theory is an abstraction, an abstraction is by definition less than reality. Hence theory will necessarily break.
Monday, November 27, 2006
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Rights of Science
A Science that has not been able to explain life till now, even after given numberless examples of it; has it acquired the right to dismiss the possibilities of what is after life?
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Friday, November 10, 2006
Choose between
Life is a puzzle; big time.
We have two options: solve it, or live it.
Which one did you pick?
We have two options: solve it, or live it.
Which one did you pick?
Monday, October 09, 2006
Playing Games
A good sport-team not only plays the 'game' well, but they also 'plays' the oppositions really well.
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Elements of my Personality
My mom brought us up with affection of unseen amount. She is so caring and loveable you can’t possibly ask more from a human being. For this unparallel amount of love and affection I got in my childhood and still now, I have grown up also as a polite, friendly and soft-hearted personality. I spontaneously sacrifice for others more than one could ask for and also want the same level of heartiness in reply. I am raised up in tight bound of love, so, I want more like this.
I feel sympathetic to almost anyone and this is coming out of no interest, neither for public display and nor as a conscious trial to be great. It’s just part of my character. I have seen people who are trying so hard (against themselves) to practice philanthropy, but only succeeding in outward display of it, not in enjoying it from their heart. So, I feel lucky that I don’t have to force myself to feel like this.
I am as bad as my company has made me and as much good as the amount of my remaining originality. Inside my core, I am good, but the environment is trying to corrupt me. People so often try consciously or unconsciously to prove that selflessness is synonymous to foolishness. That it’s smart to look for your own interest only. But, I know, it is not. That the amount of goodness and happiness hidden inside the act of helping others could only be seen with an open heart. It could neither be understood nor be felt with hearts that are ceaselessly busy in grabbing more and more.
My thoughts were always boundless and perfect, and my language always brought it into limits and imperfections.
I feel sympathetic to almost anyone and this is coming out of no interest, neither for public display and nor as a conscious trial to be great. It’s just part of my character. I have seen people who are trying so hard (against themselves) to practice philanthropy, but only succeeding in outward display of it, not in enjoying it from their heart. So, I feel lucky that I don’t have to force myself to feel like this.
I am as bad as my company has made me and as much good as the amount of my remaining originality. Inside my core, I am good, but the environment is trying to corrupt me. People so often try consciously or unconsciously to prove that selflessness is synonymous to foolishness. That it’s smart to look for your own interest only. But, I know, it is not. That the amount of goodness and happiness hidden inside the act of helping others could only be seen with an open heart. It could neither be understood nor be felt with hearts that are ceaselessly busy in grabbing more and more.
My thoughts were always boundless and perfect, and my language always brought it into limits and imperfections.
The Sweet Loneliness
I am about to accept one of the ultimate truths of my life, perhaps applied to any others as well. The truth is, I am alone. That external company can never fill up this bizarre loneliness, it’s earnestly private only. The loneliness itself is something one could fall in love with, without looking for any external attractions whatsoever. The beauty of this sweet loneliness can’t be worded exactly for it’s complete, and human languages are not. The closer one could be to this loneliness, the purer one becomes. Free from all prejudices and earthly limitations, this is something that has kept it’s originality since the beginning. You can’ t overlook it, because if you try, you no longer remain a meaningful self, but dissolved and distorted with the vague outline of the external world around you.
This loneliness teaches us the limits. It teaches the right balance, without which we are all emotionally handicapped beings.
Among so many questions in our life - life itself is the biggest mystery. I must solve this. This will indeed be the greatest of challenges in my whole life.
This loneliness teaches us the limits. It teaches the right balance, without which we are all emotionally handicapped beings.
Among so many questions in our life - life itself is the biggest mystery. I must solve this. This will indeed be the greatest of challenges in my whole life.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
The Silly Truth
We are nothing but a collection of memory with different approaches to deal with it.
God and Us : the essential difference
There is nothing to become so astonished by the level of sophistication and inherent intelligence in the design and expression of nature. The reason is simple: nature is intelligent naturally. The sentence seems very vague at the first look. But, I will ask you to give a little deeper thought into it.
Look, when we call something intelligent, or praise something for its inherent design, we mainly focus on how well that fits to the environment, and how well that correlates to the surroundings. Now, for a natural object, (anything from a dead rock, a tree to a living being) it bounds to mix well with the nature. This is a must because nature has created it from the scratch following her own style of designing.
What Nature represents is not absolute intelligence and probably there is nothing that could be seen as absolute intelligence. Because, the very way nature shapes the universe is how intelligence is being defined. And this is also our way of interpreting intelligence. As such, to term some natural phenomena as intelligently played is not informative at all.
This implies that if nature would have created things differently, a different set of actions and designs would have been seen as intelligent. The crux is anything nature creates and any fashion she employs, it will always be the most logical and efficient system an agent could find in its world.
Suppose for example, many of us take great surprise in the efficient design of our own physique. We think only a very intelligent being could have made such a sophisticated, well-suited well-organized creation. But, stop! Think again! Human body was built not in a single day, but in a continuous natural fashion. It is developed following all the natural rules and ingredients. It still is being constantly developed and changed. And thus, when it looks as something as it is now, it is certain to react efficiently with the nature, after all nature has created it! When you draw something arbitrarily you need not care about the shape, because it’s always the right shape whether or not it conforms to something else. But after you finish the drawing and give it a special name, others will find it that much hard reproducing it in the same fashion as you did. And every scratch of your paint-brush would then seem carefully and thoughtfully delivered.
So, I think thought is not the beginning of creation. It rather is a quality of something that is created, like us, human being! God need not think! He needs to create! It is us, who are to ponder!!
Look, when we call something intelligent, or praise something for its inherent design, we mainly focus on how well that fits to the environment, and how well that correlates to the surroundings. Now, for a natural object, (anything from a dead rock, a tree to a living being) it bounds to mix well with the nature. This is a must because nature has created it from the scratch following her own style of designing.
What Nature represents is not absolute intelligence and probably there is nothing that could be seen as absolute intelligence. Because, the very way nature shapes the universe is how intelligence is being defined. And this is also our way of interpreting intelligence. As such, to term some natural phenomena as intelligently played is not informative at all.
This implies that if nature would have created things differently, a different set of actions and designs would have been seen as intelligent. The crux is anything nature creates and any fashion she employs, it will always be the most logical and efficient system an agent could find in its world.
Suppose for example, many of us take great surprise in the efficient design of our own physique. We think only a very intelligent being could have made such a sophisticated, well-suited well-organized creation. But, stop! Think again! Human body was built not in a single day, but in a continuous natural fashion. It is developed following all the natural rules and ingredients. It still is being constantly developed and changed. And thus, when it looks as something as it is now, it is certain to react efficiently with the nature, after all nature has created it! When you draw something arbitrarily you need not care about the shape, because it’s always the right shape whether or not it conforms to something else. But after you finish the drawing and give it a special name, others will find it that much hard reproducing it in the same fashion as you did. And every scratch of your paint-brush would then seem carefully and thoughtfully delivered.
So, I think thought is not the beginning of creation. It rather is a quality of something that is created, like us, human being! God need not think! He needs to create! It is us, who are to ponder!!
Talking to myself
Am I clear about my Goal of life?
Is happiness my ultimate goal? Can I define happiness? Is the definition of happiness absolute or is it relative? If relative is there any happiness that is absolute? Should I seek it?
I wanted to know about my origin, the creation of this universe, the purpose of its creation and existence. Was it a right thing to want to know? Am I asking a question with answers beyond my capacity to grasp? How could I know my limits? Should I be concerned about my limits? Do I have limits?
What would be my reaction if when I get my answers? Should that lead me to a new set of questions? Can I ever be satisfied with all I know? Is there anything like ‘all’ as I just said?
Am I on the right track to reach it?
Is happiness my ultimate goal? Can I define happiness? Is the definition of happiness absolute or is it relative? If relative is there any happiness that is absolute? Should I seek it?
I wanted to know about my origin, the creation of this universe, the purpose of its creation and existence. Was it a right thing to want to know? Am I asking a question with answers beyond my capacity to grasp? How could I know my limits? Should I be concerned about my limits? Do I have limits?
What would be my reaction if when I get my answers? Should that lead me to a new set of questions? Can I ever be satisfied with all I know? Is there anything like ‘all’ as I just said?
Am I on the right track to reach it?
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Interpretation of "Probability"
How do the probability theories guarantee to be beneficial? Because they are after all predicting with uncertainty involved.
Probability is an abstraction of the actual problem, which gives a higher level view of the system. So it hides information in small scale and focuses on capturing the large scale patterns, if any. This means the results of probability theories are actually not mere possibilities but definite, concrete truth about the system, only from a high level view.
Monday, August 14, 2006
things that worth my life
So far in my life I've come to know about two things I could (in fact I want to) die for. First one is my mom, the second is physics.
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Chaos Vs. Information
The difference between a chaos and a piece of information is perhaps, information should necessarily have a repeating pattern, taken over all time.
Thursday, July 13, 2006
The most basic element of Creation
Choice is something that decreases with time and space. Therefore, in the earliest state of the universe, amount of choice was the highest. Probably all there was, is just Choices.
The more choices are made and used up, the more amount of information is created. Every event in this universe is a transformation from choice to information. So choice (available choice) us non-increasing with spacetime and information is non-decreasing with spacetime. In fine, choice is inversely proportional to the information content of any system.
Choice is probably otherwise named as randomness, and it will indeed be surprising to know the whole universe was actually started from something, widely known as randomness, so far. Or to inject some rationality in it, it could be said, randomness is something which still has some choice left within it. Because to me, randomness is not choice itself but an indication.
The more choices are made and used up, the more amount of information is created. Every event in this universe is a transformation from choice to information. So choice (available choice) us non-increasing with spacetime and information is non-decreasing with spacetime. In fine, choice is inversely proportional to the information content of any system.
Choice is probably otherwise named as randomness, and it will indeed be surprising to know the whole universe was actually started from something, widely known as randomness, so far. Or to inject some rationality in it, it could be said, randomness is something which still has some choice left within it. Because to me, randomness is not choice itself but an indication.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Saturday, July 08, 2006
God
well, they say god is listening. But there is a catch if you've missed. All they say is He listens, and what they dont say is God always does what he listens to.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Optimization
Optimization is much about smoothing things out. You always want to distribute some property over something else. So, the ultimate result of any optimization necessarily ends in something that is smooth and symmetric.
The layers of truth
Truth! So many layers! Truth is hidden by so many layers! When I am writing this document, I am pressing keys of plastic that sends electric signals, that is converted by OS, that is converted again into electrical signal and displayed back on screen. Watching my own thoughts ultimately. Mirror of my mind
Happiness
When we feel happy about something we just start to think that this is the beginning of a pleasure that will increase with the course of time and last for an indefinite period. So we start waiting. But alas! We are wrong most of the time. Because in almost every case, the happiness that we feel is allotted to us exclusively for that moment and that is the apex of joy rather than just a beginning. In this way of misjudging we actually fail to extract the pleasure assigned even for that very moment, let alone a long lasting happiness! I am not so sure whether others will agree with me in saying that, happiness as we feel practically resides in our memory because of the transient nature of time. We get only a fraction of the total feelings in the form of present and a rather broad spectrum of it dwells in our mind that replenishes us with a slightly different type of happiness unceasingly.
Does "causality" have a ground?
There are causes, causes for everything we see, feel or think. But there should be one thing that needs no causes upon which the entire structure of causality stands firmly. Yes I am talking about the beginning, the very beginning of everything that could ever exist.
The meaning of Existence
The boundary between the living and the dead is the power of self-awareness. One that is aware of its own existence is one who exists. Trees therefore should not be taken as living being in the truest of sense.
The Real strength
To sustain alone is real courage. A man as strong as a mountain, solid in his determination and precise in his calculation is a man one should be. The ones who succumb to something else except their absolute goals should fail in the end of the day. It’s more important what you do than how you do it. So, one must primarily concentrate on what one wants to achieve in the end and only when the goal is fixed properly should one plunge into the details.
Individuality
Each man is a different new master piece. Each of them has his own set of goals to accomplish and as such one should stand alone amidst everything that might fall beside him.
A new definition of n/0
We know that ‘point’ has theoretically no (i.e. zero) dimension, line has 1; plane has 2, and so on. Now, we also know that line is not simply a set of points, i.e. line can’t be thought of a collection of finite number of points. This is because 0*k=0, where 0 is the dimension of one point and k is the number of points.
Now, we can say that, if a point moves in space, its history in time produces a line. So, to make a line from a single point we need to traverse in the dimension of time, not only in space. So we can say that 0*T=L. Here 0 is the dimension of point, T is some quantity in time dimension and L is the length of the line produced by the movement of a point. This implies that [Constant in single dimension] /0 = [Some constant in time]. Important is, the basic idea behind this is quite general which is the value of something becomes infinity when we measure it in an inappropriate dimension. That’s why we get infinity in number system which should be definite in ‘time’/other dimension.
Now, we can say that, if a point moves in space, its history in time produces a line. So, to make a line from a single point we need to traverse in the dimension of time, not only in space. So we can say that 0*T=L. Here 0 is the dimension of point, T is some quantity in time dimension and L is the length of the line produced by the movement of a point. This implies that [Constant in single dimension] /0 = [Some constant in time]. Important is, the basic idea behind this is quite general which is the value of something becomes infinity when we measure it in an inappropriate dimension. That’s why we get infinity in number system which should be definite in ‘time’/other dimension.
Understanding "Probability"
If I am likely to choose a decision with 3% probability, there will be 3 people in every hundred out there, who will like that decision. How much reasonable is it? I think this is one of the fundamental approaches of the theory of probability.
Suppose for a certain binary event e we have seen all the practical outcomes till the end of time. And among them t times the outcome was true and the rest of the cases the outcome was false. Now, it would be proper to assign a probability of t/e to the outcome of that binary event being true. So, after knowing this ratio if one tries to guess the outcome of e
Suppose for a certain binary event e we have seen all the practical outcomes till the end of time. And among them t times the outcome was true and the rest of the cases the outcome was false. Now, it would be proper to assign a probability of t/e to the outcome of that binary event being true. So, after knowing this ratio if one tries to guess the outcome of e
The need to think
One of my long-term realizations is that beautiful solutions to almost any degree of problems require some hard brainstorming and honesty. Even honesty could be explained as an integral part of intelligent behavior.
Most people are most of the time tempted to go for some quick & obvious solutions because of not properly appreciating the power and necessity of the cerebration needed.
Most people are most of the time tempted to go for some quick & obvious solutions because of not properly appreciating the power and necessity of the cerebration needed.
Why I am not interested
Most of the times, if not all the times, disliking some thing in this world arises from misjudging its real aspects or poorly understanding and appreciating its true nature.
Wrong Reason vs. No Reason
Choosing a wrong thing as a reason for some thing often leads us to believe there is "no" reason for that thing, when the wrong reason fails to explainunsuprisingly.
Goal of life
Your goal of life doesn't have to be something that you will be happy to achieve, but something that will you keep you happy while you try even if you fail to achieve it in the end, for trying is what constitutes the greater part of your life.
Why UFOs might not be US military
If US really had the technology as demonstrated by the gravity defying super maneuverable so called UFOs, then would no that be reflected on their space technology? Is it possible for US to hide that type of space technology from the rest of the world? Seems very unlikely.
Causality, Where does it end?
Lets think of an existence that itself is the cause for it's own existence, I think this existence is fundamentally different from the existence of life or matter.
Probably what we are looking for is something like a singulaity of reasoning, a break point of causality. Something that defines itself without the need of anything else whatsoever. It's the supreme state of self containtment. something like a god, may be?
Whatever it is, it must end the cascade of why. One must be utterly satisfied with that entity with any other need whatsoever, again seems like god?
Something that not only is sufficient for itself but responsible for the beginning of a chain of reasoning, sounds like a creator..hmm.
A self contained, self sufficient, completely free and powerful being - sounds too much like a god, my goodness, that's amazing.
Probably what we are looking for is something like a singulaity of reasoning, a break point of causality. Something that defines itself without the need of anything else whatsoever. It's the supreme state of self containtment. something like a god, may be?
Whatever it is, it must end the cascade of why. One must be utterly satisfied with that entity with any other need whatsoever, again seems like god?
Something that not only is sufficient for itself but responsible for the beginning of a chain of reasoning, sounds like a creator..hmm.
A self contained, self sufficient, completely free and powerful being - sounds too much like a god, my goodness, that's amazing.
Inevitable Exception
Exception is such an inevitability that, even no exceptions at all - is an exception by itself
Defining Randomness
If randomness means lack of bias, it must follow the most general path, one that is most symmetric - leaving no place for uncertainty - something that seems to be violating our idea of randomness. So, it's a self-contradicting thing and this is what it should be like!
A Question on Big Bang Theory
There is one thing not clear to me about the big bang theory. If there were no space, why should we think the egg of this universe had an infinite density? Because without space, there couldn't be any such concept as density!
Another question just popped up. What was the cause of that inflation? May be I am asking an old question.
Another question just popped up. What was the cause of that inflation? May be I am asking an old question.
Cost of Friendship
Sometimes (or all times) we have to literally "buy" friendship. It might sound improper or mean, but I think it partially depends on how you define buying. To me it could be both literal (like spending money) or somewhat indirect (sacrificing some of your time). I personally do not see much of difference between these two things, all they mean is you have to sacrifice something of value not generally not found free elsewhere. That's what the incentive of friendship is and that's what what keeps friendship alive.
Science and Determinacy
After observing the gradual fading of indeterminacy of events through the advancement of science, it is hard to accept how the principle of uncertainty could hold such a firm place in modern science.
Science to my understanding is a system for knowing things with as much certainty as possible. And so far until this quantum mechanics, it is exactly what we have seen. The question now is, should we consider determinacy and causality as a more fundamental truth than science itself, given it was this very concept of knowing and predicting that gave birth to science in the first place.
Science to my understanding is a system for knowing things with as much certainty as possible. And so far until this quantum mechanics, it is exactly what we have seen. The question now is, should we consider determinacy and causality as a more fundamental truth than science itself, given it was this very concept of knowing and predicting that gave birth to science in the first place.
Dreams
My understanding about dreams are little simpler than the popular ones. I personally feel that, just before the moment you’re falling into sleep, whatever was in your mind becomes concentrated. I am not saying that is the same thing we see in our dreams, but that is where we will start it. Let me explain this a bit. You should know that human mind do not or probably can not think just one simple thought at a time. There are numberless threads of thoughts going on in your mind at all time. Some of them come up to the surface, others are just below that, while the rest seldom comes to the front, which we call our background thinking or often termed as the sub-conscious mind. So, when you are falling asleep you will have a bunch of thinking threads running inside your mind and possibly some of them are on top (on the surface). Now what we call sleep starts when these thinking threads start to reduce in number. You will gradually loose most of the threads and only a few of them, possibly only one will sustain. That whether this thread should be from one of the sub-conscious processes or the conscious ones is arbitrary to me. But whatever that is, that will be the start of your dream. And from that moment on you will think only that flow so deep that it will seem almost real to you. And that is your dream!
You might reasonably question: “Well if we have thinking threads all the time and also when before going to sleep, then how come we don’t experience dreams every time we sleep?” My answer is, sometime the thinking thread that will survive in your sleep might be a very weak one and will not produce enough results for your brain to make sense of it. Or it might have such low impact on your nervous system that you won't simply remember it when you wake up.
Explaining all these, the meaning of dreams are still not described, I think. That is probably a different question which explains the very nature of what we think and why. And that is obviously one of the most puzzling questions ever asked by anyone.
You might reasonably question: “Well if we have thinking threads all the time and also when before going to sleep, then how come we don’t experience dreams every time we sleep?” My answer is, sometime the thinking thread that will survive in your sleep might be a very weak one and will not produce enough results for your brain to make sense of it. Or it might have such low impact on your nervous system that you won't simply remember it when you wake up.
Explaining all these, the meaning of dreams are still not described, I think. That is probably a different question which explains the very nature of what we think and why. And that is obviously one of the most puzzling questions ever asked by anyone.
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