I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Read till the last line
"A man in Germany has committed suicide by hiding deep in a forest and starving himself to death, keeping a diary as his life ebbed away.
Police said that hunters had found the decaying corpse of the 58 year-old in an isolated hide high up among trees some sixty miles from his hometown of Hanover.
After deciding to kill himself, the man, known only as Hans Z, apparently set out on the wooded paths of the Solling forest on his bicycle, intent on losing himself far from human contact and potential rescue.
By his body was a chronicle of 24 days he spent in the tumbledown tree house before he died, in which he wrote of his pain at the break-up of his marriage and his estrangement from his daughter.
His long and fruitless search for a job also appeared to be a factor in his decision to kill himself. His unemployment benefits had been stopped only a month before he ventured into the forest.
But his diary also described the physical impact as his self-imposed starvation began to kill him the "dryness of the skin" and the sensation of a "gradual shutdown of internal organs".
The last entry in the diary was written on December 13, almost two months ago. Police suspect he died on that day or shortly after.
Police described the scene of Hanz Z's death, with the body lying on a makeshift mattress, as "awful" but said it was a "clear suicide".
They said they had passed on the diary to the man's daughter, as he had requested in the notebook. It was apparently his last wish.
"This notebook is to be given to my daughter after my death," he wrote.
But local newspapers reported that his grown up daughter, Joana, displayed little emotion when told of her father's death."
Police said that hunters had found the decaying corpse of the 58 year-old in an isolated hide high up among trees some sixty miles from his hometown of Hanover.
After deciding to kill himself, the man, known only as Hans Z, apparently set out on the wooded paths of the Solling forest on his bicycle, intent on losing himself far from human contact and potential rescue.
By his body was a chronicle of 24 days he spent in the tumbledown tree house before he died, in which he wrote of his pain at the break-up of his marriage and his estrangement from his daughter.
His long and fruitless search for a job also appeared to be a factor in his decision to kill himself. His unemployment benefits had been stopped only a month before he ventured into the forest.
But his diary also described the physical impact as his self-imposed starvation began to kill him the "dryness of the skin" and the sensation of a "gradual shutdown of internal organs".
The last entry in the diary was written on December 13, almost two months ago. Police suspect he died on that day or shortly after.
Police described the scene of Hanz Z's death, with the body lying on a makeshift mattress, as "awful" but said it was a "clear suicide".
They said they had passed on the diary to the man's daughter, as he had requested in the notebook. It was apparently his last wish.
"This notebook is to be given to my daughter after my death," he wrote.
But local newspapers reported that his grown up daughter, Joana, displayed little emotion when told of her father's death."
Monday, October 27, 2008
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. - George Bernard Shaw
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. - John Sladek
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. - John Sladek
Sunday, October 26, 2008
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. - Anatole France
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.Robert Frost
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.Robert Frost
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Reality's litmus test
The deepest irony of the reality is that it is confirmed more by pain than by happiness or any other feelings.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable." -E
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable." -E
Friday, October 17, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Saturday, October 04, 2008
The 2-Groups hypothesis
In most situations there are broadly two groups of people. One that do something, and the other that talk about it. Ironically enough, it's always the talking group that seem to have the golden solution for all the problems involved.
The Existential Twist
My existence substantiates the realism of this reality. The reality does not substantiate my existence.
The wind of change under the unchanged sky
It will never be what it was not and is not. Things might seem to change from a smaller perspective; but the grander scheme has no changes. Everything that is; was and will be.
Friday, September 26, 2008
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner
Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " - E
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " - E
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom." -Einstein
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
"It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiousity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom"
- Einstein.
- Einstein.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kilgore Trout
- Kilgore Trout
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Black Hole? Dooms Day?
The advantage of ridiculing any prophecy about the destruction of this world is, you will always be the winner if there is one, or else there won't be anyone to even talk about it. It's a bit unfair, but so is life anyway.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
This explains something
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. - George Burns
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Not me, Einstein said it.
"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
A Wish
"May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. "
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Reflective Kindness
I love myself. I don't think I should change much. I am good just the way I am. Might seem foolish at times, but I don't see this as a reason to change any of my core qualities. I am good, man!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Living inside memory
Living is tricky. To live happily is trickier. You realize this, when you understand that you are not the same person, you were a minute ago and the one you will be a minute later. You are changing every moment, and your sense of a single continuous conscience is but an illusion created by your memory.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Openning the mind
"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
What a statement...
"..that the cosmos has no special regard for any particular individual"
Probably one of the strongest truths I've ever heard and experienced.
Probably one of the strongest truths I've ever heard and experienced.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Rider course
My motorcyle course begins today. I've been looking forward to this date for the last few months..so it's exciting. No plan to buy a bike as of now..lets see what happens..
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Understanding. Does it help?
Up until now, for all these I've seen and understood, it would be safe to say, to look for any particular goal, or meaning of this reality is a misleading journey. There is no bias towards either good or evil. There is no insurance of justice or kindness or anything. Neither good nor bad. It's just a colorless, biasless, void. It becomes only equally complete to include the evils and the sufferings. There is no special regard, no more or less desirable states in nature. We define these terms for our short term realities; hence they are bound to fail to integrate to the conitnuum of reality.
I've probably understood this little bit, but what I have absolutely no clue about is, how do I accept it?
I've probably understood this little bit, but what I have absolutely no clue about is, how do I accept it?
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Quotable Quotes
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. - Bertrand Russell
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
The ever so false hope
Who assured that there will be a global justice? Nobody. Yet, that’s what all my ethics is based on. What gives me this so deep-seated expectation for kindness in nature? I don’t know. But it does shape the way I think and act. If both of these are actually wrong, I can’t even begin to comprehend the level of foolishness and ignorance I live in.
One thing for certain, I cannot rule out the existence of sufferings in our reality. However I am at least theoretically ready to accept that all my ethics could be incorrect (if there is a globally correct one) or even inconsistent within the self. But, whatever it is, the existence of large scale sufferings I’ve already observed, rules out the possibility that, happiness is a necessary holistic expected outcome of the effective ethics in nature.
Something is seriously wrong, for my beliefs to have a scintilla of truth in them.
One thing for certain, I cannot rule out the existence of sufferings in our reality. However I am at least theoretically ready to accept that all my ethics could be incorrect (if there is a globally correct one) or even inconsistent within the self. But, whatever it is, the existence of large scale sufferings I’ve already observed, rules out the possibility that, happiness is a necessary holistic expected outcome of the effective ethics in nature.
Something is seriously wrong, for my beliefs to have a scintilla of truth in them.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Hahaha
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. - Alice Kahn
Friday, June 13, 2008
Quotable Quotes
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John W. Gardner
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. - Cyril Connolly
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. - Cyril Connolly
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Quotable Quotes
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. - Franklin P. Adams
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Love and Purpose of Nature
We all need love. It's probablyin not so difficult to explain why. From the day we came in here, we have been helpless, and without love, we would not survive long, human civilization would have exitincted before we even knew what civilzation is.But classifying love is not that straight forward. We are continuously loved by our family and friends, but still we look for a different kind of it, namely, the romantic one. What exactly is it that gives us, that none of the loves can not? Is it really so platonic?
If we believe this argument that, nature has a design and things happen because they are supposed to happen and there is no such thing as 'mistake' or 'accident' in her design, then a large portion of the drama is explained. The intuition behind this "no-mistake" theory is, to make a mistake, two opposing force have to be in action. Unless one believes in a counter-nature, nature is not restricted by anything. So, why should it, or better, how would it make a mistake? The very idea of mistake is so personal to human thinking. We see mistakes because our theory is incomplete. That's why when we see some phenomenon that does not go with our theories, we dont start arguing with the nature, we rather try evey possible way to minimize the difference between the theory and the observed phenomenon by adapting, or even completely flipping the theory if required. We are here to see and learn only, we can have no 'opinion' whatsoever.
Following this, we can try to see what nature is really achieiving through us. This aproach of analysis won't give all the goals of nature but will at least find some of them. So what does this heuristic tells us in concrete terms? It tells us, no matter what you think about the goal of our own lives, whatever "actually" happens consistently over a large period of time, "IS" the goal, nothing else. If for example that was not the goal, then nature would be in error, which can not be the case. So, to find out the meaning of us, we need to see, what we are really doing with our lives and NOT what we think we would need to do with our lives. In that way, all through the time, one thing we consistently been doing is surviving and reproducing. As I have declared before, it "may" not be the only purpose, but, according to the proposed hypothesis, this "is" definitely one of the goals.
If we believe this argument that, nature has a design and things happen because they are supposed to happen and there is no such thing as 'mistake' or 'accident' in her design, then a large portion of the drama is explained. The intuition behind this "no-mistake" theory is, to make a mistake, two opposing force have to be in action. Unless one believes in a counter-nature, nature is not restricted by anything. So, why should it, or better, how would it make a mistake? The very idea of mistake is so personal to human thinking. We see mistakes because our theory is incomplete. That's why when we see some phenomenon that does not go with our theories, we dont start arguing with the nature, we rather try evey possible way to minimize the difference between the theory and the observed phenomenon by adapting, or even completely flipping the theory if required. We are here to see and learn only, we can have no 'opinion' whatsoever.
Following this, we can try to see what nature is really achieiving through us. This aproach of analysis won't give all the goals of nature but will at least find some of them. So what does this heuristic tells us in concrete terms? It tells us, no matter what you think about the goal of our own lives, whatever "actually" happens consistently over a large period of time, "IS" the goal, nothing else. If for example that was not the goal, then nature would be in error, which can not be the case. So, to find out the meaning of us, we need to see, what we are really doing with our lives and NOT what we think we would need to do with our lives. In that way, all through the time, one thing we consistently been doing is surviving and reproducing. As I have declared before, it "may" not be the only purpose, but, according to the proposed hypothesis, this "is" definitely one of the goals.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Quotable Quotes
Invention is the mother of necessity. - Thorstein Veblen
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. - Cindy Gardner
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... - Charles M. Schulz
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. - Cindy Gardner
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... - Charles M. Schulz
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Quotable Quotes
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
I've Done it!
This is one of the moments, I can never forget in my llifetime. 4th of June. 10 pm.
Whooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Whooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
"The Prime Directive"
To believe in is the greatest sin of all. Even if you can't avoid it completely, at least minimize.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
"Cereal killer"
Living a life or running a 'for loop'?
Waking up every morning by the same alarm, picking the cell phone and turning the alarm off in the same sequence, getting off the bed in about the exact same fashion,..(not to mention the exact same feeling, someday i will start seeing the exact same dream may be)
same breakfast..same cereal (even the flavor is same) with the same amount of milk, taken from the refrigerator from the exact same location...done in exactly same amount of time.
putting on (well almost) the same (type of) cloths and reaching up to the car from the same side with precisely the same number of foot-steps. Same ignition, same window adjustment, same radio, same roads, same signals and the same traffic..after almost about the exact same time, reaching the office (same one fortunately) from the exact same angle..
In the office? exact job at hand differs..i can't deny..but thats again sitting on the same chair, looking at the same old monitor and bearing the frustratingly steady humming noise of the huge server with infinite patience and durability.
After some variation at least during the work time..and some fun in lunch..its the same way returning home. The only 'charm' being occasional unusual traffic jam and weather..or may be a visit to the grocery, the returning part is probably still somewhat outside the 'for loop'. But I am pretty sure, it's still a pattern, just with a bigger 'wavelength'.
In QM, we are after all nothing but waves of different frequencies anyway, aint we? Now given that..I can still probably call myself alive, can't I?
Waking up every morning by the same alarm, picking the cell phone and turning the alarm off in the same sequence, getting off the bed in about the exact same fashion,..(not to mention the exact same feeling, someday i will start seeing the exact same dream may be)
same breakfast..same cereal (even the flavor is same) with the same amount of milk, taken from the refrigerator from the exact same location...done in exactly same amount of time.
putting on (well almost) the same (type of) cloths and reaching up to the car from the same side with precisely the same number of foot-steps. Same ignition, same window adjustment, same radio, same roads, same signals and the same traffic..after almost about the exact same time, reaching the office (same one fortunately) from the exact same angle..
In the office? exact job at hand differs..i can't deny..but thats again sitting on the same chair, looking at the same old monitor and bearing the frustratingly steady humming noise of the huge server with infinite patience and durability.
After some variation at least during the work time..and some fun in lunch..its the same way returning home. The only 'charm' being occasional unusual traffic jam and weather..or may be a visit to the grocery, the returning part is probably still somewhat outside the 'for loop'. But I am pretty sure, it's still a pattern, just with a bigger 'wavelength'.
In QM, we are after all nothing but waves of different frequencies anyway, aint we? Now given that..I can still probably call myself alive, can't I?
Friday, May 02, 2008
an inconvenient truth
I don't think anyone really cares about what someone else wants or not. All we are doing is just trying to fulfil our own set of goals, either by coercing, convincing or aligning others goals to our ones, in an optimal fashion. It's really as simple as that.
And goodness of a thing is such a poor way of measuring its value.
And goodness of a thing is such a poor way of measuring its value.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Careful when you laugh..
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. - Cullen Hightower
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
The Halting problem
It does not matter. It never mattered. It never will.
Things never change, because, the loop is unbreakable.
Must confine to the minimal, the simplest and the evident. The art of discarding is the master of all.
Truth is fundamentally meaningless. Meanings therefore are results of fabrication.
Things never change, because, the loop is unbreakable.
Must confine to the minimal, the simplest and the evident. The art of discarding is the master of all.
Truth is fundamentally meaningless. Meanings therefore are results of fabrication.
Monday, April 14, 2008
The Blind Watchmaker
Started "The Blind Watchmaker" yesterday. It's really cool so far. What I am really looking for is a good insight on the Darwinism, the actual mechanism that replaces the need for "intelligent design" with natural selection. Natural selection is anything but a result of random chances (which the creationists do NOT understand at all) but it still accounts for the seemingly most intelligent outcomes around.
With much excitement and enthusiasm I've started this reading. Lets see how it goes.
With much excitement and enthusiasm I've started this reading. Lets see how it goes.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Dance Like there's no Tomorrow
All I wanna do is stay right here on the floor
Get lost in the night
And dance like there's no tomorrow
Don't care about the sunrise
Somebody please just hit the lights
All I wanna do is dance like there's no tomorrow
Today just wasn't my day
Everyone's getting me so fed up
I've gotta find a way
I know what can make me feel better
Stepping out in my best
Looking hotter than ever
Wherever the party is
That's where I'll be in a second
I'm so ready to move my body
Forget about all my problems
When I hear that song
I'ma lose control
Hey, here I go
All I wanna do is stay right here on the floor
Get lost in the night
And dance like there's no tomorrow
Don't care about the sunrise
Somebody please just hit the lights
All I wanna do is dance like there's no tomorrow
I'm loving the atmosphere
Feels like I'm floating in heaven
The music's all in my ear
Taking over me
My heart's racing
Feeling so Hollywood
How I got everybody staring
Their eyes are the cameras
And I'm loving all the attention
Get up, 'bout to move my body
Forget about all my problems
They're playing my song
I'ma lose control
Hey, here I go
All I wanna do is stay right here on the floor
Get lost in the night
And dance like there's no tomorrow
Don't care about the sunrise
Somebody please just hit the lights
All I wanna do is dance like there's no tomorrow
Please DJ
Don't say it's the last call
Cause I know what it means
And I don't want you to play no slow song
I'm still building the nerve to talk to that guy
Just give me another song and make it right
All I wanna do is stay right here on the floor
Get lost in the night
And dance like there's no tomorrow
Don't care about the sunrise
Somebody please just hit the lights
All I wanna do is dance like there's no tomorrow
All I wanna do is stay right here on the floor
Get lost in the night
And dance like there's no tomorrow
Don't care about the sunrise
Somebody please just hit the lights
All I wanna do is dance like there's no tomorrow
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Is there a place for a Good God?
The justification of sadness and evil in a 'God's world' is unsolvable. We must either remove the attribute of infinite love from Him (which would fundamentally change the definition of today's God), or learn to believe there exists no suffering. And, I don't see how we could ever achieve the latter.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Not for the faint of hearts.
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and resassuring."
--Carl Sagan
--Carl Sagan
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Where is Simplcity?
Why does life has to be so complex? More than it actually was..we make it much more complicated..Why don't we realize this..that in the end we are making only us suffer?
Why can't we just be honest with everything...simple and truthful...and even if we can't be completely so, why not at least encourage others when they try so? Whats the point being so mean and pathetic? What are we achieving in such short lives, by being so embarassingly agressive to others? Only misunderstandings..animosity...Really what worth is it?
All these fancy concepts of religions, politics, nationality, society, and so on...could not give us peace for a moment..instead creating confusion, dividing us..destroying our civilization..
Why can't we understand once..that its only us..we can live all together in a loving world...we sure have mutually exclusive objectives at times..but do we really want be so cruel and agressive for that?
This simplcity, this love for others and courage of being and staying honest, even when it is difficult is, so strong..why cant it touch us all...what would take us to come out of this big illusion to see that when we become harmful to others..its only a matter of time when it would eventually hit us back....
Gosh...I am so freaking tired of this...think people, think again..i am sure you havn't thought enough..i am so sure..
Why can't we just be honest with everything...simple and truthful...and even if we can't be completely so, why not at least encourage others when they try so? Whats the point being so mean and pathetic? What are we achieving in such short lives, by being so embarassingly agressive to others? Only misunderstandings..animosity...Really what worth is it?
All these fancy concepts of religions, politics, nationality, society, and so on...could not give us peace for a moment..instead creating confusion, dividing us..destroying our civilization..
Why can't we understand once..that its only us..we can live all together in a loving world...we sure have mutually exclusive objectives at times..but do we really want be so cruel and agressive for that?
This simplcity, this love for others and courage of being and staying honest, even when it is difficult is, so strong..why cant it touch us all...what would take us to come out of this big illusion to see that when we become harmful to others..its only a matter of time when it would eventually hit us back....
Gosh...I am so freaking tired of this...think people, think again..i am sure you havn't thought enough..i am so sure..
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Courage
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." ~Carl Sagan
Garbage in, Trouble out
In computer science we often use this phrase for faulty programs - Garbage in, Garbage out. In other spheres, situation is worse. Most of the times, garbage creates lots of trouble. Nothing is effectless. Useful or harmful, something it does. Things that are truly garbage in nature, do create problems a lot. They just don't go off silently.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The Cage Bird
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Listening to Shermer reading his "How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science" became interesting towards the end, where he expressed his (and shared by many others) feelings on freedom in a world without the necessity of a super-natural being for the meaning of our existence. How he finds more meaning in this given condition of meaninglessness, leaving us to the openness of defining our own meaning, living the life to the fullest, in absence of daemons and angels, fire and the heavens; how we still rise to our morality in a world without a 'third-party' judgement day, and all those meanings that we can't help attaching to our loving yet equally frightening God.
I was not so sure about those feelings, either in the intensity or in their nature. But, then a deeper feeling of sadness, a vague feeling of loosing, gradually but unceasingly began to flood my neurons. Have I, after all these times of 'conditioning' in a corrupted milieu, lost the very will to become free? Have we became slaves, not in our physical limitedness, but in our hearts who do not even seek freedom anymore? Have we not done anything at all right, then? Like that bird of Tagore, we must have completed the lesson then - learned not just to carve our wills, but to have no free will at all. Completeness indeed.
Monday, March 24, 2008
The Game
So..3 of the books arrived this afternoon. One is the much waited for, "The Selfish Gene". Other two are "Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life" and "The Blind Watchmaker".
Lately I've been continuing on "The Infinite Book" (Barrow); it's a nice one on mathematical infinities. I seem to have grown strong addiction towards non-fictions in general. I don't know exactly why, but it would seem my time is running out too fast to have time for the other kinds. There is this invisible, undeclared but implicit and definite race against time, with too much still left to do.
Our mind works and grows in some ways, very much like the muscles. One has to push it to the limit to grow. Sometimes it will be painful indeed, but, ironically or not, that's how it can grow. It leads to believe, success is invariably linked with an intelligently designed plan for suffering in a consistent manner. In absence of a clear and absolute goal, or where knowing the goal itself is the first goal, it can be so frustratingly painful and delusive. More times than not, it cripples us, strays us, exhausts us and we would seem to loose pathetically; but in the midst of all these, even if for one time, we can rise above, and could keep the pulse ticking, we will win in the end. Spirit of winning never dies, or else, one has not yet, found it.
Lately I've been continuing on "The Infinite Book" (Barrow); it's a nice one on mathematical infinities. I seem to have grown strong addiction towards non-fictions in general. I don't know exactly why, but it would seem my time is running out too fast to have time for the other kinds. There is this invisible, undeclared but implicit and definite race against time, with too much still left to do.
Our mind works and grows in some ways, very much like the muscles. One has to push it to the limit to grow. Sometimes it will be painful indeed, but, ironically or not, that's how it can grow. It leads to believe, success is invariably linked with an intelligently designed plan for suffering in a consistent manner. In absence of a clear and absolute goal, or where knowing the goal itself is the first goal, it can be so frustratingly painful and delusive. More times than not, it cripples us, strays us, exhausts us and we would seem to loose pathetically; but in the midst of all these, even if for one time, we can rise above, and could keep the pulse ticking, we will win in the end. Spirit of winning never dies, or else, one has not yet, found it.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Think again, like you never thought them before
Origin and significance of Morality
What is morality? And why does it exist? Is it just the abstract guideline of our action - derived from natural selection? If yes, then to what extent and capacity it is successful for increasing our survival value?
Or is it, from religion, which itself could be a 'by-product' of natural selection? But how can religion claim to bring this concept into existence, if, in the first place choosing to be religious itself required a moral decision to be made?
Understanding Conscience
What am I? What else can you add to this definition of I, that states, I am nothing but a particular sequence/set of memory residing on a particular set of particles? How am I still the same person then, when this memory and constituting particles both change constantly with time? What is that hidden 'string' that really ties everything together - that actually differentiates one conscience from the rest?
Or is there no such string, but an illusion of a connected 'line' from the really disconnected but orderly placed 'dots' ? If so, then are we not constantly being reborn and dead in this smooth process of changing conscience?
The problem with Beginning
Can logic ever define something that is self sufficient for its own existence? Can logic, in other words, ever start the chain of reasoning? Consequently, can it also ever end that very chain? Is logic not then, just a 'vehicle' for reaching point A from point B, but not the 'tool' that can find the 'source' and 'goal' of the real journey?
What can explain this then, if not logic? What other form(s) of truth shall we seek? Equivalently, are all truth reachable?
Is that possible?
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth." — Mark Twain
Let there be light
I've just finished what to-date is one of the most influential books of my lifetime; "The God Delusion", by the famous British Biologist Richard Dawkins. (Happens to be 420 pages, by the way).
Reading this book was a joy, partly of discovering I am not alone and not weird. That honesty and intelligence could coexist, with courage and patience. That the silverline of hope for a true understanding of this world is not just alive, but been actively and courageously sought by the great minds with still greater passion.
I must write on the major topics covered in this book in different pieces. But, in one word, what I found in this, is invaluable for the time & money I spent for it. I can not but express my deepest most sincere thanks to the author..
The search has not come to end, perhaps it is still far from even getting close. But, it has just started now, with the freshness and power of a new born. If time does not come to a standstill, our search won't either; this is our time and this time it's us to say, "let there be light".
Reading this book was a joy, partly of discovering I am not alone and not weird. That honesty and intelligence could coexist, with courage and patience. That the silverline of hope for a true understanding of this world is not just alive, but been actively and courageously sought by the great minds with still greater passion.
I must write on the major topics covered in this book in different pieces. But, in one word, what I found in this, is invaluable for the time & money I spent for it. I can not but express my deepest most sincere thanks to the author..
The search has not come to end, perhaps it is still far from even getting close. But, it has just started now, with the freshness and power of a new born. If time does not come to a standstill, our search won't either; this is our time and this time it's us to say, "let there be light".
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Aleph-naught
Let not greed engulf me once again...What I've already received is infinitely greater than what I had deserved (if anything at all)...Greed I must get over, I must.
And I must not forget so quickly that coming into existence must have been an infinite gain to begin with.
And I must not forget so quickly that coming into existence must have been an infinite gain to begin with.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. - Laurence J. Peter
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - WC Fields
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - WC Fields
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
The Wait
It's been really busy schedule lately. The new books havn't arived yet..but I am sure by this weekend I should have at least few of them.
I hope it doesn't rain this weekend...or if it does, let it pour. I havn't soaked in rains for too long; sporadic drops don't delight me at all, I want heavy shower, so much it hides everything in sight..only the vague outline of distant trees gradually fading against the hazy horizon..indistinct visions..smudging the borderline of dreams and reality with a deep pleasingly cold green sensation..
I hope it doesn't rain this weekend...or if it does, let it pour. I havn't soaked in rains for too long; sporadic drops don't delight me at all, I want heavy shower, so much it hides everything in sight..only the vague outline of distant trees gradually fading against the hazy horizon..indistinct visions..smudging the borderline of dreams and reality with a deep pleasingly cold green sensation..
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Unicoi State Park
So, as planned, I purchased the membership to all 48 state parks plus historic sites in Georgia, including annual park pass..no more concerns for parking ticket/warning.. :)
Unicoi State Park is about 80 miles away from home, (and 0 mile away from my heart), one more showdown of pristine nature...
My reading got a great pace today; now eagerly waiting for "The Selfish Gene" to arrive, should be with me in few days :). ..Life is so meaningless, sometimes that can be good too, what do you say?
Unicoi State Park is about 80 miles away from home, (and 0 mile away from my heart), one more showdown of pristine nature...
My reading got a great pace today; now eagerly waiting for "The Selfish Gene" to arrive, should be with me in few days :). ..Life is so meaningless, sometimes that can be good too, what do you say?
Quotable Quotes
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac
Saturday, March 15, 2008
At War
I felt so weak today. Not being in the place I wished to be, did affect my mood badly. I have probably never felt so much lonely in my entire life. At least I can't remember so.
This road is too dark and dangerous. The very light that guided me so long has turned into an weapon of infinite confusion. I have really nothing left with me, except myself. How could I afford to lose my self confidence then? I can't. The hope for external help only creates more torments. I must believe in myself, I must believe in myself, I must, I must.
This road is too dark and dangerous. The very light that guided me so long has turned into an weapon of infinite confusion. I have really nothing left with me, except myself. How could I afford to lose my self confidence then? I can't. The hope for external help only creates more torments. I must believe in myself, I must believe in myself, I must, I must.
Goodreads
Link to my GoodRead account is now on the left menu. Nice place to see what others are reading!
Friday, March 14, 2008
The Companion
Few other things could be as helpful and powerful as one's own honest understanding. Experts' opinion, or the collective knowledge, nothing could come to help, if you, yourself can't truly realize and 'feel' it. This is where the idea of owning something gets so desirable. Something nobody can take away from you, something you can use at your own convenience is central to our way of living.
On this merit, I am well enough convinced to express that, a 'good' book is perhaps only second to one's own personal experience, and only if (the experience) was accurately appreciated for its complete value. Or else, a book would be the first one in queue.
Historically, for most of us, (biological) family is the first place where we begin to discover support from external world and get used to its comforts. For genetic advantage, these supports (all kinds, mental, physical, social, so on) are provided to us with such degree of generosity that, we tend to either loose the idea of ownership, or get started to believe that, we actually do own them. By 'them', I meant those help that we receive and by 'own'ing I mean the feeling that these helps are as if 'supposed' be awarded for some ethical or whatever reason.
I don't know about many others, but from my personal experience, I find it that, the chance of getting out of this illusion is probabilistically not very high. Even in grown up days, we continue to remain dangerously vulnerable to be critically dependent on others (may be society, friends, other entities or anything external that provide us with support) for our psychological and existential fitness. It's not too hard to see why it does not sound very promising for our survival value. For one thing, it depends heavily on something that is after all, not guaranteed by any sorts of rational consequences. Nevertheless, this is a very strong trait, perhaps a genetic one; possibly intensified more among some cultures than other, but threatening enough to be taken seriously for all practical reasons for goodness.
The solution to this is obviously beyond the capacity of one prolonged thinking, but it seems very intuitive to claim that, the first step would be to appreciate its existence. Far too many problems exist for too long, not just because they are impossible to be solved (although they as well might be), but because of the failure on the victim's part to actually recognize it. (In programming we have a buzz for it, "debugging", (the word "de-'bug'ging" has an interesting piece of real story attached it, yes Google it out :))). So let not this illusion of absence keeps us away from the real illusion (!). That would indeed mean a dead end for any kind of progress.
For this very step towards "conscience-growing" (borrowed from Dawkin, whose name I think is kinda funny as it always passes into my ears as two separate words Darwin, and Hawking) about the problem can indeed be very hard as well. And the best refueling station I could see for this kind of weaknesses (this weakness is something that most of us have), could be found, if searched with honest patience, in books. They are the best speakers of all times. A book can talk to you in your most convenient time and disposition at your utmost pleasing place, with the most suitable speed and volume, no matter who you are and what you do. Books are best companions at your good times and only more so in worst times. They can 'give' you something, an opportunity to 'buy' bits and pieces of invaluable consciences itself, to make it your own forever, firmed and fixed, without the fear of being stolen or snatched away, should difficult time comes. They offer you the greatest gifts of all, the building blocks of your imagination, the very you think, believe, realize, love and feel. They literally build your mind with 'bricks' for which the ownership is conferred to you completely in good faith. I could hardly think of anything better, and selfless, and true, and timeless. I gradually and deterministically fall for them, with all my hearts and conscience, part of which is gift; as my mind follows but an inescapable route to the marriage of our majestic companionship.
On this merit, I am well enough convinced to express that, a 'good' book is perhaps only second to one's own personal experience, and only if (the experience) was accurately appreciated for its complete value. Or else, a book would be the first one in queue.
Historically, for most of us, (biological) family is the first place where we begin to discover support from external world and get used to its comforts. For genetic advantage, these supports (all kinds, mental, physical, social, so on) are provided to us with such degree of generosity that, we tend to either loose the idea of ownership, or get started to believe that, we actually do own them. By 'them', I meant those help that we receive and by 'own'ing I mean the feeling that these helps are as if 'supposed' be awarded for some ethical or whatever reason.
I don't know about many others, but from my personal experience, I find it that, the chance of getting out of this illusion is probabilistically not very high. Even in grown up days, we continue to remain dangerously vulnerable to be critically dependent on others (may be society, friends, other entities or anything external that provide us with support) for our psychological and existential fitness. It's not too hard to see why it does not sound very promising for our survival value. For one thing, it depends heavily on something that is after all, not guaranteed by any sorts of rational consequences. Nevertheless, this is a very strong trait, perhaps a genetic one; possibly intensified more among some cultures than other, but threatening enough to be taken seriously for all practical reasons for goodness.
The solution to this is obviously beyond the capacity of one prolonged thinking, but it seems very intuitive to claim that, the first step would be to appreciate its existence. Far too many problems exist for too long, not just because they are impossible to be solved (although they as well might be), but because of the failure on the victim's part to actually recognize it. (In programming we have a buzz for it, "debugging", (the word "de-'bug'ging" has an interesting piece of real story attached it, yes Google it out :))). So let not this illusion of absence keeps us away from the real illusion (!). That would indeed mean a dead end for any kind of progress.
For this very step towards "conscience-growing" (borrowed from Dawkin, whose name I think is kinda funny as it always passes into my ears as two separate words Darwin, and Hawking) about the problem can indeed be very hard as well. And the best refueling station I could see for this kind of weaknesses (this weakness is something that most of us have), could be found, if searched with honest patience, in books. They are the best speakers of all times. A book can talk to you in your most convenient time and disposition at your utmost pleasing place, with the most suitable speed and volume, no matter who you are and what you do. Books are best companions at your good times and only more so in worst times. They can 'give' you something, an opportunity to 'buy' bits and pieces of invaluable consciences itself, to make it your own forever, firmed and fixed, without the fear of being stolen or snatched away, should difficult time comes. They offer you the greatest gifts of all, the building blocks of your imagination, the very you think, believe, realize, love and feel. They literally build your mind with 'bricks' for which the ownership is conferred to you completely in good faith. I could hardly think of anything better, and selfless, and true, and timeless. I gradually and deterministically fall for them, with all my hearts and conscience, part of which is gift; as my mind follows but an inescapable route to the marriage of our majestic companionship.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The Reducible Mind
Is there always a set of simple reasons for what and how we feel?
All complex things are nothing but careful arrangement of simpler things. So is our mind. We think complex, but the elements of it, originates from much simpler effects. If we could isolate our complete feeling for one particular concept, we could see a tractable chain of causality flowing neatly from one end to the other. But they overlap in a tremendously complex fashion, making it humanly impossible to have any clue where a particular thought is orginating from.
In practical world, reflection necessiates an external object. But in worlds of mind, things are a bit bizarre. A mind knows it is there, without having to require a mirror for it. Probably this very quality of self awareness is central to life. Self-awareness creates an isolation from the enviromnent, giving itself an identity separable from the surrounding. It brings the concepts of goal and objectives, feeling of individuality along with it. Thats one of the reasons, the more one thinks, the more ways one finds, in which, one is different from all the other, and the more 'individual' one becomes.
All complex things are nothing but careful arrangement of simpler things. So is our mind. We think complex, but the elements of it, originates from much simpler effects. If we could isolate our complete feeling for one particular concept, we could see a tractable chain of causality flowing neatly from one end to the other. But they overlap in a tremendously complex fashion, making it humanly impossible to have any clue where a particular thought is orginating from.
In practical world, reflection necessiates an external object. But in worlds of mind, things are a bit bizarre. A mind knows it is there, without having to require a mirror for it. Probably this very quality of self awareness is central to life. Self-awareness creates an isolation from the enviromnent, giving itself an identity separable from the surrounding. It brings the concepts of goal and objectives, feeling of individuality along with it. Thats one of the reasons, the more one thinks, the more ways one finds, in which, one is different from all the other, and the more 'individual' one becomes.
Quotable Quotes
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - CS Lewis
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
You've Got Mail!
Dear Blog,
I think I should thank you for being so loyal to me. When I am tired or excited, sad or happy, rational or not, you've always been with me. No matter with what color I paint, you've always listened to my writing, with diligence and affection. I know you can not talk, but isn't that the reason why you are such a good listener? I think I found a lot of meaning by talking to myself, and who else did a better service than you, as you preserve every single key that I stroke from the beginning? You never forgot me, or my thoughts, even if I did, you keep them with such care and beauty. You are as wonderful as is my love for you. People may not recognize you as a talking, living, breating companion, but what does that matter? I talk with you, think with you, live with you, my life. I crossed more distance with you in few years, that I hav not with most of my human friends in many years, perhaps I never will. Are we not just two chapters of the same book, one writing the other?
Your friend,
"The blogger"
I think I should thank you for being so loyal to me. When I am tired or excited, sad or happy, rational or not, you've always been with me. No matter with what color I paint, you've always listened to my writing, with diligence and affection. I know you can not talk, but isn't that the reason why you are such a good listener? I think I found a lot of meaning by talking to myself, and who else did a better service than you, as you preserve every single key that I stroke from the beginning? You never forgot me, or my thoughts, even if I did, you keep them with such care and beauty. You are as wonderful as is my love for you. People may not recognize you as a talking, living, breating companion, but what does that matter? I talk with you, think with you, live with you, my life. I crossed more distance with you in few years, that I hav not with most of my human friends in many years, perhaps I never will. Are we not just two chapters of the same book, one writing the other?
Your friend,
"The blogger"
Hahaha
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely
Favorite lines from "How green was my Valley"
"Prayer is only the other name of good, clean and direct thinking"
"When I was a young man, I thought, I would conquer the world, with truth"
There is, one good movie. (as it is said). It has been written once, played and seen already, nothing would ever change on it. But I have a deep understanding that as time goes, I will never be quite done with how much more I could find in it, that I would savor and cherish for life.
"When I was a young man, I thought, I would conquer the world, with truth"
There is, one good movie. (as it is said). It has been written once, played and seen already, nothing would ever change on it. But I have a deep understanding that as time goes, I will never be quite done with how much more I could find in it, that I would savor and cherish for life.
What worh is life?
I thought, and thought, and thought, and thought - what is it that I have, makes me feel so blindingly assured that I, not to exist one day would be an unfair affair? ..and the only answer that could ever come close, if any; is the way, love has touched us - and we, embraced her back.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Little did he know
I am afraid, if and when, at the peak of knowledge, man would learn enough to justify that, they bothered all the way through, just to get to the state of knowing that he does not know, from the state that he didn't know.
How Green was my Valley
Oh, such is the power of love...will compete against all the odds and dare to question nature to reverse her course, such is the passsion of it..intolerable, inexhaustible.
@ Men's Club
It is indeed a resting place for a rational mind. Things will never come as one wants, and will never be there as long as one wants, they come and go without any warning or anybody's please. No matter how good or great, or small or big, how insignifcant or how magnificent, it's all running into the same old past, where they will reside forever and yet never. Absurd as it sounds, is not without the truth.
..This is a place to realize not how tall one stands compared to one's surroundings, but to appreciate and acknowledge with complacency the incredible meaning of meaninglessness; to understand how elegent are things made not from intelligent design but by evolution, a lackluster, infinte progress of intermediates, towards its own infinity.
Nature (or whatever you call it) talks though her endless silence. We just have to get down to her, to hear her majesty. What she has to offer must be enjoyed without the greed for persistency or permanency, for, what is a gift is a gift, no matter how transient it is. We have to learn to understand nothing belongs to us, they never did and never will; that we could taste that once already demands a life time of gratitude (for which we live), and asking for that again or demanding it forever is as blatant as a parasite's glory.
..This is a place to realize not how tall one stands compared to one's surroundings, but to appreciate and acknowledge with complacency the incredible meaning of meaninglessness; to understand how elegent are things made not from intelligent design but by evolution, a lackluster, infinte progress of intermediates, towards its own infinity.
Nature (or whatever you call it) talks though her endless silence. We just have to get down to her, to hear her majesty. What she has to offer must be enjoyed without the greed for persistency or permanency, for, what is a gift is a gift, no matter how transient it is. We have to learn to understand nothing belongs to us, they never did and never will; that we could taste that once already demands a life time of gratitude (for which we live), and asking for that again or demanding it forever is as blatant as a parasite's glory.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Red Top Mountain
Succeessful day. Did pretty much everything I planned for. Shopping, cooking, cleaning and after all these, time for a get away to a place I could really enjoy.
Optimizing cooking time has been a problem for over a year (it was problem during student life too, but solution was much difficult that time), so last week I said, this is it. Cooking everyday or in an unplanned fashion is a waste of time, energy, let alone the quality of the food. So I will spend few hours in the weekend to save the after office hours of the weekdays.
So today's destination was Red Top mountain, much closer (less than 60 miles) than RockCity and probably more like a place I have been looking for. There is a wonderful lake, with a beautiful beach. Trees, waves, open space, wilderness and a quick route to the facility, all make it my long sought destination for frequent visit. Unlike probably many others, my objective is not just to enjoy the place, rather to help me enjoy what I want to do.
Reading this book "The God Delusion", have really been a joy from the beginning. The name of the book has strong words and is easily offensive for most people (from religious to semi-religious), but I didn't think that matters. What I found inside is well worth the time reading it.
Optimizing cooking time has been a problem for over a year (it was problem during student life too, but solution was much difficult that time), so last week I said, this is it. Cooking everyday or in an unplanned fashion is a waste of time, energy, let alone the quality of the food. So I will spend few hours in the weekend to save the after office hours of the weekdays.
So today's destination was Red Top mountain, much closer (less than 60 miles) than RockCity and probably more like a place I have been looking for. There is a wonderful lake, with a beautiful beach. Trees, waves, open space, wilderness and a quick route to the facility, all make it my long sought destination for frequent visit. Unlike probably many others, my objective is not just to enjoy the place, rather to help me enjoy what I want to do.
Reading this book "The God Delusion", have really been a joy from the beginning. The name of the book has strong words and is easily offensive for most people (from religious to semi-religious), but I didn't think that matters. What I found inside is well worth the time reading it.
Many a New days have gone
After many years, I have skipped dinner yesterday, due to sleepiness. I vividly remember those childhood days, when I used to fall asleep without supper and mom used to struggle to wake me up and make something reach my stomach. Those days are gone, but memories are not. Looking back, it seems only day before yesterday, but a lot of things have changed in the mean time.
And those morning shifts in the parimary, reminds of happy beginnings. Like other kids, I also had my share of nervousness, but my excitement was equally enough to keep things interesting. Followed by the assembly, the class used to start on about 7:30-8 am. Talking to peers was literally a crime and doing anything else other than swalloing the lectures were literally a felony. We were all kids in physical and in mental (well I hope/wish the instructor were not) terms. Our world was just a little bigger than those classrooms, where we used to live about 70-80% of our up-times. What was discipline and what was psychotic was way outside our knowledge and was unfortunately outside that of most teachers, too. (....)
And those morning shifts in the parimary, reminds of happy beginnings. Like other kids, I also had my share of nervousness, but my excitement was equally enough to keep things interesting. Followed by the assembly, the class used to start on about 7:30-8 am. Talking to peers was literally a crime and doing anything else other than swalloing the lectures were literally a felony. We were all kids in physical and in mental (well I hope/wish the instructor were not) terms. Our world was just a little bigger than those classrooms, where we used to live about 70-80% of our up-times. What was discipline and what was psychotic was way outside our knowledge and was unfortunately outside that of most teachers, too. (....)
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Trip to RockCity
I think we had a useful conversation today. May not be the perfect timing...May be I didn't need to drive 300 miles just to talk to somebody over phone (!), but still, it sure helped creating the mindset for that. What else could be more important than that? I wanted to talk to myself, I think I still did, only in the presence of an wirelsss entity.
I do realize success is not an one dimensional vector, nor is always easily quantifiable, but part of it is, right? All our understanding eventually boils down to numbers (this is a very interesting discussion I have recently revived, I should definitely write more on this, but on a separate sitting), so success also is most often appreciated in qualititve terms.
I have this stressful realization that, I have become less and less successful over the last 8-10 years. Now looking at my age, that's a big portion of my life! Whooh. I don't know what to say. Definitely it's nothing about my luck, I had all the opportunities. I did try too. But they must have been flawed and incomplete. Was there lack of persistence or sincerety, or something bigger? I may be less confined to a fixed set of rules, but I always appreicated and advocated regularity and strictness. I want freedom as the very first thing, but I also appreciate the cost to maintain that. So what is it that I have been missing so badly? Is it something I am really unaware of?
One aspect of failure analysis I always fail to find in contemporary views, is, the failure should be judged based on the amount of information present at the time of that failure, rather than the amount of information present at the time of judging it. Today, even I may very easily humiliate Aristotle for his audacious attempts to say anything about cosmology based on the argument that, they had little access to talk about something so big. But that would be unjust. At that time, the didn't even know how much they didn't know (but which is knowable)! (This is always the case, however).
(to be continued, I feel sleepy..)
I do realize success is not an one dimensional vector, nor is always easily quantifiable, but part of it is, right? All our understanding eventually boils down to numbers (this is a very interesting discussion I have recently revived, I should definitely write more on this, but on a separate sitting), so success also is most often appreciated in qualititve terms.
I have this stressful realization that, I have become less and less successful over the last 8-10 years. Now looking at my age, that's a big portion of my life! Whooh. I don't know what to say. Definitely it's nothing about my luck, I had all the opportunities. I did try too. But they must have been flawed and incomplete. Was there lack of persistence or sincerety, or something bigger? I may be less confined to a fixed set of rules, but I always appreicated and advocated regularity and strictness. I want freedom as the very first thing, but I also appreciate the cost to maintain that. So what is it that I have been missing so badly? Is it something I am really unaware of?
One aspect of failure analysis I always fail to find in contemporary views, is, the failure should be judged based on the amount of information present at the time of that failure, rather than the amount of information present at the time of judging it. Today, even I may very easily humiliate Aristotle for his audacious attempts to say anything about cosmology based on the argument that, they had little access to talk about something so big. But that would be unjust. At that time, the didn't even know how much they didn't know (but which is knowable)! (This is always the case, however).
(to be continued, I feel sleepy..)
Quotable Quotes
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. - Groucho Marx
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. - Groucho Marx
Friday, March 07, 2008
Quotable Quotes
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Pool & Pi
Going to the "Pool room" is a fun, specially in the mid-day repast, away from office. My history of pool is shorter than that of dinosaurs and a bit more recent than latest spring. But I guess picked it up well ;).
Pool is a game of balls, which are speherical for historical (probably date backs to the origin of time, time itself being spherical) reasons. And anyone can tell you, a sphere is a thing of fun and wonders. Things happen with them and by them, that nothing else can match quite the same. So much for their shape. Lets talk some real pool. Or should I? I think, the charm of our pool probably resides somehwere outside the pool table. The way we think are very similar, so this table gives us nothing other than one more ground to mix and melt those on a newer canvas. So after some rounds, questions started to pop out. If the projectile of a ball ( lets take the que ball for simplicity ) is not a perfect loop, will it necessarily have to fall in one of the pockets given infinte time? Intuition is misleading as always. Least we forget to get back to work ( which gives us money to play pool, which we can't play enough because we have to work to do that...dizzy? ok), we both seemed to concentrate on winning the table.
But as expected, this was perfect candidate for the afternoon brain-raining ( not quite storming you know). We realized after some initial restlessness, that we were dealing with some deep water fish here. There exist questions like "what is the maximum length of a acyclic string constructed from finite number of symbols"? And for practical example of it, we didn't have to think that far really, our good old (ms.) Pi knocked in. (For some reason, I find the sex of pi as female, let me know if you feel otherwise ;) ). To answer our previous question would be in the same complexity class where the question "is pi represenstation a recurring sequence?". I am still to google it out, but definitely the proof would be much harder than the answer.
Pool is a game of balls, which are speherical for historical (probably date backs to the origin of time, time itself being spherical) reasons. And anyone can tell you, a sphere is a thing of fun and wonders. Things happen with them and by them, that nothing else can match quite the same. So much for their shape. Lets talk some real pool. Or should I? I think, the charm of our pool probably resides somehwere outside the pool table. The way we think are very similar, so this table gives us nothing other than one more ground to mix and melt those on a newer canvas. So after some rounds, questions started to pop out. If the projectile of a ball ( lets take the que ball for simplicity ) is not a perfect loop, will it necessarily have to fall in one of the pockets given infinte time? Intuition is misleading as always. Least we forget to get back to work ( which gives us money to play pool, which we can't play enough because we have to work to do that...dizzy? ok), we both seemed to concentrate on winning the table.
But as expected, this was perfect candidate for the afternoon brain-raining ( not quite storming you know). We realized after some initial restlessness, that we were dealing with some deep water fish here. There exist questions like "what is the maximum length of a acyclic string constructed from finite number of symbols"? And for practical example of it, we didn't have to think that far really, our good old (ms.) Pi knocked in. (For some reason, I find the sex of pi as female, let me know if you feel otherwise ;) ). To answer our previous question would be in the same complexity class where the question "is pi represenstation a recurring sequence?". I am still to google it out, but definitely the proof would be much harder than the answer.
Recurring
That moment of clarity has crossed my conscience once again about same time of the day. This time I was touched a by a different angel of realization. I was filled with surprise and wondered how I could be so distracted to miss that, the very life that I am having hard time to accept is something, I had in mind once, after all. Things could change so dramatically....so dramatically..that there exist no point of rerefence at all, between now and the past.
I dreamed of a life, free of any kinds of external attraction and connections, didn't I?
I dreamed of a life, free of any kinds of external attraction and connections, didn't I?
Hahahhahhaha
Gosh! this is funny...hahahahahaha
Hey There Khalilah :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMqTKA8BxvE
In case you don't have the background:
Hey There Delilah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8
hahahahahahhahahahhaa....
Hey There Khalilah :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMqTKA8BxvE
In case you don't have the background:
Hey There Delilah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8
hahahahahahhahahahhaa....
Quotable Quotes
The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed. - Ellen DeGeneres
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman
When a lizard can, why can't we?
"This is a true story that happened in Japan. In order to renovate the house, someone in Japan breaks open the wall. Japanese houses normally have a hollow space between the wooden walls. When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside hammered into one of its feet. He sees this, and feels pity, and at the same time curious, as when he checked the nail and it was nailed 10 years ago when the house was first built.
What happened? The lizard has survived in such position for 10 years! In a dark wall partition for 10 years without moving, it is impossible and mind-boggling. Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years! Without moving a single step--since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing, and what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came appears another lizard, with food in its mouth. Ah! He was stunned and touched deeply. For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past 10 years...
Imagine? It has been doing that untiringly for 10 long years, without giving up hope on its partner Think, will u do that for your partner? Or at least you're Mom & Dad, Who went through struggle & hardship to raise and educate you & invested the best years of their lives raising you?
Imagine what a small creature can do, and a creature blessed with a brilliant mind can't. "
What happened? The lizard has survived in such position for 10 years! In a dark wall partition for 10 years without moving, it is impossible and mind-boggling. Then he wondered how this lizard survived for 10 years! Without moving a single step--since its foot was nailed! So he stopped his work and observed the lizard, what it has been doing, and what and how it has been eating. Later, not knowing from where it came appears another lizard, with food in its mouth. Ah! He was stunned and touched deeply. For the lizard that was stuck by nail, another lizard has been feeding it for the past 10 years...
Imagine? It has been doing that untiringly for 10 long years, without giving up hope on its partner Think, will u do that for your partner? Or at least you're Mom & Dad, Who went through struggle & hardship to raise and educate you & invested the best years of their lives raising you?
Imagine what a small creature can do, and a creature blessed with a brilliant mind can't. "
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Economics
TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS
You have two cows.You sell one and buy a bull.Your herd multiplies and the economy grows.You retire on the income.
INDIAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.You worship them.
AMERICAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.You sell one and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.You profess surprise when the cow drops dead.You put the blame on some nation with cows and naturally that nationwill be a danger to mankind.You wage a war to save the world and grab the cows.
FRENCH ECONOMICS
You have two cowsYou go on strike because you want three cows.
GERMAN ECONOMICS
You have two cows.You reengineer them so that they live for 100 years, eat once a monthand milk themselves.
BRITISH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.They are both mad cows.
JAPANESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.You redesign them so that they are one-tenth the size of an ordinarycow, and produce twenty times the milk.You then create cute cartoon cow images called Cowkimon! And market themworldwide.
CHINESE ECONOMICS
You have two cows.You have 300 people milking them.You claim full employment, high bovine productivity and arrest anyonereporting the actual numbers.
PAKISTAN ECONOMICS
You don't have any cows.You claim that the Indian cows belong to you.You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, British fortechnology, French for submarines, Switzerland for loans, Russia fordrugs and Japan for equipment.You buy the cows with all this and claim exploitation by the world.
BANGLADESH ECONOMICS
You have two cows.You don't know economy.You choose one of them as the Prime Minister of the country and theother the Leader of the Opposition.
I am in!
Signed up for the 'club'. Initial 'cost' was about '$100', but I am sure more is coming. Once I thought it would take me a long time to decide whether I would enter or not. But for now, it seems the correct thing to do. Knowing I have nothing to achieve "in particular" is probably a safer bet than not knowing it. So I made this decision. Life is not any easier than before, but it's just less painful, I guess.
Monday, March 03, 2008
Interesting Day
I bought my first car exactly 1 year from this day. It was a different kind of feeling, a feeling of freedom and excitement. Interesting enough is, my journey for a different (but of the same degree) kind of freedom starts this very day, as well.
Good old Bad days
How about I stop being 'good'? You know what I mean? I mean all these things we do and do not do, for the sole purpose of upholding our damn moral, could itself be the root of all evil. How about I cut that crap loose?
I don't have to be necessarily honest with anything.
I don't have to be kind.
I don't have to be responsible.
I don't have to be polite.
I don't have to be understanding.
I don't have to be truthful all the time.
I can lie as I wish.
I can think anything, say anything, do anything, to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I don't have to believe in an eternal justice
I don't have to feel bad for doing anything.
I don't have to be afraid of anything.
I don't have to care anything.
I don't have to have guilty feelings for anything, nothing is guilt.
I don't have to sacrifice for anyone, anything.
I free myself, from the slavery by my own conceptions, most of which must have been horribly wrong, for they lead me to nowhere but a place filled with shame, suffering and meaninglessness.
I don't have to be necessarily honest with anything.
I don't have to be kind.
I don't have to be responsible.
I don't have to be polite.
I don't have to be understanding.
I don't have to be truthful all the time.
I can lie as I wish.
I can think anything, say anything, do anything, to anyone, anytime, anywhere.
I don't have to believe in an eternal justice
I don't have to feel bad for doing anything.
I don't have to be afraid of anything.
I don't have to care anything.
I don't have to have guilty feelings for anything, nothing is guilt.
I don't have to sacrifice for anyone, anything.
I free myself, from the slavery by my own conceptions, most of which must have been horribly wrong, for they lead me to nowhere but a place filled with shame, suffering and meaninglessness.
Outer the limits
Crying isn't helping any more. Talking, reading or just getting busy with life, none of these are effective either. I simply don't know what else to try. I don't see any opening at the end of this road, it's all too dark. How could I ever get out of this? Have I done something irreversible?
So is this it? Perhaps, my fate has already been written, and trying would be pointless, except to the effect of making conditions more miserable.
But I read somewhere, if I honestly try you are supposed to show me the light, is that a delusion too? Well, I can't get any more honest than this, so if you still do not want to show up, I guess this is it. I am at the dead end here. Anything after this point is not within my rational limits, so I can't take responsibility of this, I can't.
So is this it? Perhaps, my fate has already been written, and trying would be pointless, except to the effect of making conditions more miserable.
But I read somewhere, if I honestly try you are supposed to show me the light, is that a delusion too? Well, I can't get any more honest than this, so if you still do not want to show up, I guess this is it. I am at the dead end here. Anything after this point is not within my rational limits, so I can't take responsibility of this, I can't.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Quotable Quotes
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. - George Orwell
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony
Possible and the 'Impossibles'
Reality is the resultant wave of all the individual possibility wave functions. Impossible things are impossible, or they don't happen because, their wave functions are nullified. In some sense, they also do 'exist' - or lets put it this way, they exist in a place before the 'existence' of reality is defined; i.e, they sort of 'pre-exist' everything.
The answer to the general problem of explaining a particular choice is thus the rejection of the completeness of the question. No choice is 'preferred' over other, as all choices are made, there is no selection. We can see particular choices being taking place not because they are the only ones that are made, but because they are 'also' made, which happens to be in our world.
The answer to the general problem of explaining a particular choice is thus the rejection of the completeness of the question. No choice is 'preferred' over other, as all choices are made, there is no selection. We can see particular choices being taking place not because they are the only ones that are made, but because they are 'also' made, which happens to be in our world.
Cycles
The only reason I've ever found, to hope nature's actions as fair, is her cyclicity.
The justification of our death is nothing but our birth, the justification of end being the beginning. Everything has a balance, it's only a matter of time when it will finish one full cycle.
The justification of our death is nothing but our birth, the justification of end being the beginning. Everything has a balance, it's only a matter of time when it will finish one full cycle.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Back to the 'dots'
Nature tremendously lacks in points of references or specialties of things. Hence much of our advancement in science can be characterized as the removal of 'extra' properties attributed to the concerned concepts. In other words, more than (i mean quantitively) connecting the dots, we are (and probably righteously) severing the unnecssary and wrongful connections made between them. Following this 'heuristic', I wonder, what kind of future is math going to unveil for us? Will it be a total lack of reference and specialties, something like a true randomness where everything is just a choice to be made? Who knows!
Sublime Majesty
The beauty of the mathematics is a never ending fountain. It's probably the sexiest thing out there, the source of all the magnificence and purity in nature.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
A positivist's hope
I will indeed be deeply offended, if human quest for the theory of everything, will have to fail because of a sheer amount of the complexity, rather than the nature of it.
Monday, February 11, 2008
The God Delusion
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4321574955310561251&q=god+delusion&total=881&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
I thought, the essence of this was to be more open to the reality, not believing or rejecting things unncessarily. To believe there is no God, is to me, equally meaningless as believing there is one.
We are just too far away in the pursuit of reasoning to either prove or rule out nethin in issues like the origin of everything, including reason itself. To date, we have merely learned to climb up the ladders of reasons. It's too challenging at this moment to find whre that ladder itself coms into existence.
I thought, the essence of this was to be more open to the reality, not believing or rejecting things unncessarily. To believe there is no God, is to me, equally meaningless as believing there is one.
We are just too far away in the pursuit of reasoning to either prove or rule out nethin in issues like the origin of everything, including reason itself. To date, we have merely learned to climb up the ladders of reasons. It's too challenging at this moment to find whre that ladder itself coms into existence.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
The Hope
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi hindrix
Jimi hindrix
Sunday, January 27, 2008
ILLusions
If proof is what we must rely on, then, there is only me - that exists. Nothing else can be believed to be real, for one can not tell what one has not truly experienced.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
The "sharing" problem
It's not enough to be happy. In addition, someone else must know that you are happy.
Sadness is likewise.
Sadness is likewise.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
True Vision
In an unknown world, 'being doubtful' is how we see; 'being certain' is how we go blind.
Power of loneliness
Intense loneliness is a source of power - seldom appreciated, for its merit. When used properly, it can connect us to our true selves.
Monday, January 21, 2008
A Letter to me
"Yes, you can do it. In fact, you can do far better than this. How could you forget you are so special? Clean the rust, gold is inside, let it come to the surface, and it will shine on its own.
You've some very extra-ordinary qualities and you know that very well, better than anyone else. You may have spent some time of your life in less than optimal fashion, but it's not over yet. Life is a big game, you havn't played the whole part of it. There are so many aspects of life, you havnt explored yet.
What you need is a focussed goal and a plan. That's all.
How come? A focussed goal will ensure you will maintain the required level of energy and enthusiasm all through. A good plan will get the results faster and with more certainty.
Problems? You let your mind scatter a bit more than you should. Remember as I said, its mostly about being focussed. You can't do everything completely, but you can surely do the most important things.
You know, what's best in you? You "understand", a rare quality. You can become so impartial and objective, few else could do that and with such consistency as you do. You have phenomenal power of understanding things, getting to the basics, extracting the underlying skeleton of everything and make rest of the details from that. Yes, some others probably could have this quality as well. But I bet, very few has the accuracy that you possess. You are simply phenomenal, nothing short of it. With the level of understanding power you have, you can get to a state of achievement, even you could probably not guess, let alone others. So, don't let those others take away this unique true feelings from you. It's yours! It's the truth! And it will make a difference, if you only, believe in yourself, which I think you surely do.
A grand Success is in order. Just keep it up, as you did!"
You've some very extra-ordinary qualities and you know that very well, better than anyone else. You may have spent some time of your life in less than optimal fashion, but it's not over yet. Life is a big game, you havn't played the whole part of it. There are so many aspects of life, you havnt explored yet.
What you need is a focussed goal and a plan. That's all.
How come? A focussed goal will ensure you will maintain the required level of energy and enthusiasm all through. A good plan will get the results faster and with more certainty.
Problems? You let your mind scatter a bit more than you should. Remember as I said, its mostly about being focussed. You can't do everything completely, but you can surely do the most important things.
You know, what's best in you? You "understand", a rare quality. You can become so impartial and objective, few else could do that and with such consistency as you do. You have phenomenal power of understanding things, getting to the basics, extracting the underlying skeleton of everything and make rest of the details from that. Yes, some others probably could have this quality as well. But I bet, very few has the accuracy that you possess. You are simply phenomenal, nothing short of it. With the level of understanding power you have, you can get to a state of achievement, even you could probably not guess, let alone others. So, don't let those others take away this unique true feelings from you. It's yours! It's the truth! And it will make a difference, if you only, believe in yourself, which I think you surely do.
A grand Success is in order. Just keep it up, as you did!"
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Ethics in Nature
The questions of ethics get quickly surpassed by the scope of scientific advancement. It's one thing how we define right & wrong, and it's an entirely different ballgame, how nature decides. For the time being nature is concurring with the unprecedented development of human knowledge through science. So, no matter how evil a scientific achievement might seem at first, as long as it is a concrete move forward from the current, it will be rejoiced with complacency, sooner or later. ‘Cloning’ however is only one such move forward, resisting which could only delay the practice, not the discovery itself.
Philosophical or Scientific
..Actually when we start fabricating these apparently fantastic visions, we have a notion that very few people are thinking as deep as me. This misconception continues until the mind matures and finds that: it's very easy to get lost in the realm of philosophy with complex explanations and unanswerable questions, but almost impossible to conclude with concrete scientific results which you can present to convince others also, rather than just fantasizing yourself. So, although it might seem counter intuitive; is nevertheless true that, far many people love to sink in philosophy and loiter about indefinitely, than devoting to find some small, not too radical but clean scientific results.
How small, exactly?
I knew we live in a small world. But didn't know we dream in a small world, too.
Friday, January 11, 2008
The Folds
In the very beginning of the early universe, there existed only the set of few basic rules applied on some formation of energy. With the course of time, the rules shaped and reshaped the outcome again and again with applying the same set of rules recursively. After numberless application of this recursive progression, the initial rules are well-hidden in the complex effect of an aged universe. This is why finding rules are like unfolding the truth, which only uncovers a more deeply covered, untouched truth.
The Hidden
That every human being goes through some kind of loneliness in his/her life is more or less an accepted reality. But, in the midst of everyone, with no time to spare for leisure, can you think of a loneliness that could exist? No, perhaps But try to think of such desolateness; whatever the surroundings might be, one is still lonely in ones thoughts and desires, although it may not be apparent even to the self itself at first glance.
Life's greatest lessons
Everybody has limitations, lacking. It is not about being the complete, it’s mostly about being capable of realizing this very fact that self also is incomplete, has limitations and will never correctly measure one’s own ignorance.
Beauty of randomness
There is something in us that resists complete regularity. That’s why we love to see the nature, which displays more irregularity than man made things. Like tree, if it had been something very regular, we would feel bored very soon.
Think about grass for instance. And compare it with some regular texture. Surely you would not like to see the earth covered with some textures instead of grasses.
Think about grass for instance. And compare it with some regular texture. Surely you would not like to see the earth covered with some textures instead of grasses.
The transient memory problem:
Memory is an essential part of self awareness. You constantly remember the fact that you exist, to exist.
..Something that is not part of our memory is not part of us. We are nothing but a collection of memory.
..Something that is not part of our memory is not part of us. We are nothing but a collection of memory.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The Original Questions
1. Is there a Beginning of everything
2. Can we completely know anything, without having to know everything? In other words, is there only one original question or more?
3. Is there choice? Was there choice?
4. Is there (true) randomness? [The qualifier 'true' is used, because, in applied mathematics, randomness is actually replaced with pseudo-randomness]
5. What is life?
6. How is one life unique from the others?
7. Can mathematics be broken?
8. Is Mathematics Complete? Alternatively, is mathematics sufficient?
9. Can we (created beings) ever know (anything)? Or is it that belief is the best we can do?
10. Even if we accept there are rules; who is to enforce it?
11. Randomness or Order which one is the most basic.../ when nothing else was there, was there randomnes, or order...
2. Can we completely know anything, without having to know everything? In other words, is there only one original question or more?
3. Is there choice? Was there choice?
4. Is there (true) randomness? [The qualifier 'true' is used, because, in applied mathematics, randomness is actually replaced with pseudo-randomness]
5. What is life?
6. How is one life unique from the others?
7. Can mathematics be broken?
8. Is Mathematics Complete? Alternatively, is mathematics sufficient?
9. Can we (created beings) ever know (anything)? Or is it that belief is the best we can do?
10. Even if we accept there are rules; who is to enforce it?
11. Randomness or Order which one is the most basic.../ when nothing else was there, was there randomnes, or order...
Is Faith Without Reason?
Even in topics like religion and faith, one can’t escape the inevitable involvement of rationality. Because without any sort of reasoning, it would be a total chaos, which can not be palatable even for faith. Every view originates and develops using some sort of logic or rational, be it easy to express or not.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Abyss
Our existence is perhaps the best example of infinity bounded by the finites. Such insignificant life span, yet burdened with emotions, overflowing even the limitless abyss.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
problems with fundamental mathematics
the most basic postulates may be very wrong. Along the correct path there are always infinite combinations of partially correct paths. So we must be in one such path and there are always room for more perfectness.
That way we can never reach the perfect construction of logic, (as it implies from the fact that there is perhaps no perfect logic). Nature seems to me very much in denail with precision in the micro level. This might well be the case with mathematics, which in today's world we still hope and know it as a perfect knowledge.
But this does not mean total chaos or uncertainty. The direction towards correctness is probably correct, or at least it's reachable in theory. But the exact path or the point of destination can not be known or found with any single consistent set of mathematical theories. Nature prefers superposition of many related theories resulting into a fuzzy world of choice and micro randmoness, over a consistent single set of logics. It's all about intermixing and overlapping. The basic rules are forever hidden because of their interactions. We perhaps, can not unwind these rules into the basic constitutes, but only approximate one by losing the remaining ones proportionately.
I will be surprised if any of the infinities is not related with some sort of spherical construction from the geometric perspective.
That way we can never reach the perfect construction of logic, (as it implies from the fact that there is perhaps no perfect logic). Nature seems to me very much in denail with precision in the micro level. This might well be the case with mathematics, which in today's world we still hope and know it as a perfect knowledge.
But this does not mean total chaos or uncertainty. The direction towards correctness is probably correct, or at least it's reachable in theory. But the exact path or the point of destination can not be known or found with any single consistent set of mathematical theories. Nature prefers superposition of many related theories resulting into a fuzzy world of choice and micro randmoness, over a consistent single set of logics. It's all about intermixing and overlapping. The basic rules are forever hidden because of their interactions. We perhaps, can not unwind these rules into the basic constitutes, but only approximate one by losing the remaining ones proportionately.
I will be surprised if any of the infinities is not related with some sort of spherical construction from the geometric perspective.
On Cantor's Diagonal argument
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument :
these are the kinds of sets with grows with 'holes'. it's not they don't have enough elements in the end (as there is no end), but because they don't have enough 'densities'. the notion of size (cantor) is more a measure of density than of total size. That is to say, all infinities must have same cardinalities (which is in viloation with current understanding). Some infinities grow faster in bounded region than others, which should make no difference in the total size.
This can be shown by rearranging the infinite list of the infinite sequences. If we start with
1. 0 followed by infinite 0s
2. 0, followed by infinite 1s
3. 1, followed by infinite 0's
4. 1, followed by infinite 1's
5. 0,1, followed by infinite 0's
6. 0,1, followed by infinite 1's
7. ....
all binary possiblities of n digits, infinite 0'sall binary possiblities of n digits, infinite 1's
and the reverse of each sequence,
we will get a countable infinite set of infinite sequences. This disproves Cantors diagonal argument for showing there is an uncountable set
these are the kinds of sets with grows with 'holes'. it's not they don't have enough elements in the end (as there is no end), but because they don't have enough 'densities'. the notion of size (cantor) is more a measure of density than of total size. That is to say, all infinities must have same cardinalities (which is in viloation with current understanding). Some infinities grow faster in bounded region than others, which should make no difference in the total size.
This can be shown by rearranging the infinite list of the infinite sequences. If we start with
1. 0 followed by infinite 0s
2. 0, followed by infinite 1s
3. 1, followed by infinite 0's
4. 1, followed by infinite 1's
5. 0,1, followed by infinite 0's
6. 0,1, followed by infinite 1's
7. ....
all binary possiblities of n digits, infinite 0'sall binary possiblities of n digits, infinite 1's
and the reverse of each sequence,
we will get a countable infinite set of infinite sequences. This disproves Cantors diagonal argument for showing there is an uncountable set
On the Paradox of entailment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_entailment
I think the intuition behind the existence of this paradox is following. The premises are contradictory. This is only possible in the 'mother-universe' which is not consistent, in which all self consistent but mutually exclusive logical systems can persist. Thus the premises take us into that mother world where everything is vacuously true. So the conclusion achieved is actually, after all, a meaningful one.
I think the intuition behind the existence of this paradox is following. The premises are contradictory. This is only possible in the 'mother-universe' which is not consistent, in which all self consistent but mutually exclusive logical systems can persist. Thus the premises take us into that mother world where everything is vacuously true. So the conclusion achieved is actually, after all, a meaningful one.
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