Reason and Meaning

1. The concept of reasoning is falwed. I really need to write a book on this matter, or at least an artcile elaborating on it. In short, the idea that, if certain event B occurs (almost)always after event A, then A is the reason of B. It is a big fallacy. This only tells they happened so, so far. The term 'reason' should be reserved for something other than just coincidence. Yes, all in science so far, we have mistaken coninncidence for reason. Like the tune of a music, there is just one underlying law in this universe. There is no causal dependency between any two events in the universe. All events are causally linked directly to only one underlying rhythm. That rhythm itself if the mother or the equivalent of creator.

2. The concept of meaning is flawwed. I need to write more on this as well. It could be a separate book or a separate chapter in the book about reasoning. The idea is, the concept of meaning has no element of reality. It's an artifact of our cognition. Outside our thinking, there is no existence of meaning. No existence means that, there is no verifiable effect in nature that can give positive evidence of meaning. On the other hand, there is no phenomenon in nature that needs a meaning to be explained and it is not possible also to have a consistent description of nature by assuming meaning's existence.

Right you are

64 kilo bytes of RAM

Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other," Fred, how was the memory clinic you went to last month?" "Outstanding," Fred replied. "They taught us all the latest psychological techniques: visualization, association, etc. It was great." "That's great! And what was the name of the clinic?" Fred went blank. He thought and thought, but couldn't remember. Then a smile broke across his face and he asked, "What do you call that flower with the long stem and thorns?"
"You mean a rose?"
"Yes, that's it!" He turned to his wife, "Rose, what was the name of that memory clinic?"

That's a good one

A mechanic was removing a cylinder head from the motor of a Harley motorcycle when he spotted a well-known heart surgeon in his shop.
The surgeon was there, waiting for the service manager to come and take a look at his bike.
The mechanic shouted across the garage, "Hey, Doc, can I ask you a question?"

The surgeon a bit surprised, walked over to the mechanic working on the motorcycle. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and asked, "So Doc, look at this engine. I open its heart, take valves out, fix 'em, put 'em back in, and when I finish, it works just like new. So how come I get such a small salary and you get the really big bucks, when you and I are doing basically the same work?"

The surgeon paused, smiled and leaned over, and whispered to the mechanic...
"Try doing it with the engine running."

Life used to be good!

Oh gosh.. do I miss 24...
and Family Guy,
and Futurama!

Damn it!

24 is having a vote for the best lines in season 6. Almost every single line was awesome. They all rock. Some of my top favorites:

"Drop your weapon"

"First lets make something clear: the only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry you"

"I give you my Word"

"Do you understand the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing? the only reason i fought so hard to stay alive from China was because i didn't want to die for nothing...today i can die for something... my way, my choice..."

"You think you know about pain? You don't know anything yet."

‎"you know me, you've read my profile"

"Give me the names"

"i'm done playing games. i'm going to take out your right eye, then i'm going to cut out your left, and i'm going to keep cutting you into you tell me what i need to know."

"You're going to tell me what I want to know, It's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt."

"If you are lying to me, I'm gonna make this the worst day in your life. You understand me?"

http://www.jackbauersgreatest.com/main_ff.php

A nonsense of popular condolence

I guess I need to spell it out loud here. The most common approach I have seen to console a sad person is something like this. They ask the sufferer to look at other people's condition, which are possibly much worse. And then because of that comparison, they expect the sufferer to get some hope (? that more pain is waiting?) or solace (?that you are better than your brother?) or something (I don't know!) that would make him/her feel better.

Well here is the rub. How in the world, is another one's suffering making my suffering any less, if not more? As a person I feel actually much worse when I find that it's not only me, but someone else also is suffering. Isn't this the natural reaction as a sentient being? How am I supposed to feel any better by looking around and finding people that are suffering even worse, on top of my own suffering mind?

It's like gaping another person's broken car to get solace, instead of fixing one's own broken one. It's really nonsensical.

The Hardline of Nature's Ethics

Death is not a cruel event by itself - but, things that lead to it could be.
Death is the final deffense mechanism to take a being out of suffering, when the pain is beyond the limit. Hence it is actually a mercy.

The Power of Indirection

"There is no problem in computer science that can't be solved by another level of indirection."

I believe this is still valid, if we drop the phrase "computer science". Just another level of indirection :)

Thank you, Vincent Freeh.

The primary factor

Happiness is mainly a property of your mind, not a derivative of your state of affairs.

At least, I would like to believe it that way.

Innovation

The fundamental precondition for innovation is probably the ability to remove the superfluous relations among concepts that constrain our thought from leveraging the complete freedom of the truth. We must open our mind to an unprecedented level and constantly challenge the limits set by our current understanding of the universe. Only this level of courage can take us closer to the truth.

Dreams

I dream of walking along very narrow cliffs many a times. This link is interesting.

http://www.whiteestate.org/sop/2000/story.html

Some of my other recurring dreams include:

Mazes, a building or structure with many stories and doors, I am not finding my destination in there. Most of the time I will start from somewhere and then when I try to return there, the path would seem to have changed, even if I remember the map.

In other dreams, I will be traveling on some sort of vehicle or something, but my body would be held so high above that thing that I could fall off any moment. And there is this strong feeling that nobody around me seems to be noticing that.

Sometimes, I will be traveling on very weird roads. Mostly with very narrow and stiff edges. There are other people on these roads.

Or it could be that I am in a journey, or in a place or in some situation where I am in imminent danger of loosing balance and falling from a high altitude. Interestingly, I hardly remember any dream where I actually fell. But these dreams makes me anxious and uncomfortable.

Indeed

"Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers."

"Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry."

Lazarus Long (Longest lived human science fiction cahracter, 1912 - ? {ranges from 2125 to 4000}, (From the author Robert Heinlein):

Three pillars

Kindness
Honesty
Intelligence

I shall never deviate from these three,

QR

"It has been my philosophy of life that
difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
- Isaac Asimov

Lie

A 'lie' has a very powerful reproductive system.

To exist is to change.

I think it applies to me as well

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
- Nikola Tesla

QQ

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
- Thomas Mann

The Secret of Life

Is not about the self. It is about the others.

Beyond

Every time I've followed the chain of reasoning down to the furthest I could, the last thing I explored, has been love and kindness; self-explained and completely satisfying

The Spirit never dies.

Could you Pause?

I never liked the fact about time. It flows and makes everything disappear into the unreachable past. I don't like it. I want things to stay. I want it to persist.

Things that exist in time, are never ultimate. They are to be overlaid by new events every moment. This illusion is unbreakable.

Definition

Reality is something we do not have control over. The all powerful, therefore, doesn't have a reality.

This Time

The problem is, it's too damn real.

For Example

Things you can not make bigger by stretching:
A Heart

Numbers

The concept of numbers would not exist, if there were no two things that are same, at any level.

Essence

What is the fundamental difference between information and energy?

QQ

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- George Santayana
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Pride

Ugliest of prides are of those possessions, one has been bestowed upon, without much effort.

Principle of maximam doubt

If you could afford to doubt something, doubt it.

Living in Future

It's not only what happened, that shapes the mood; instead it is mostly about what is anticipated.

Questions are being satisfied, but, not with answers.

The Equation

In the totality of life, the essential problem is almost never, a lack of resources. It is lack of intelligent actions.
Lack of sensible decision in one sphere of life could lead to lack of resources in another sphere. And once resources get scantier, the problem becomes a little bit unsolvable, the amount by which the decision was off from the perfect one in the other sphere, to be exact.

Example:
You earn certain amount of money. To grow and live the happiest possible life with that income is a different proposition than increasing the rate at which you earn. To earn more is what I will call, the problem in the other domain with respect to optimal use of what you’ve got. Given a specific income level, there is a worse way, a better way and the best way to use it for achieving maximum happiness. It could be investing wisely, balancing your life-style with your income or many other techniques. The goal is always to increase total happiness. Investing wisely for example does not mean you put up so much for the future that the happiness you will be able to reap in future with the saved money is actually less than the sacrifice you are making today. There is always the best trade-off between different uses of money to achieve the greatest possible happiness. But the subtle point here is, the limit of this happiness is curved by your income level too and that is in a different domain of problem. The amount of money you have is a limiting factor set in the domain of using it wisely.
But if you follow carefully, the argument of lack of resources not being the problem applies to that ‘other domain’ too, and this goes recursively indefinitely. It is not true that you cannot earn more. Given a certain level of potential (intellectual, physical, or whatever it is), you can always find a way to earn the maximum that is possible. Again the limiting factor here is outside the domain, namely, potential, physical possessions for example. Reiterating the point, with the same potential it is possible to earn at different levels only though different levels of intelligence applied in making decisions.

Put in so nicely

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It stays, it glows.

The light of truth can't be extinct. It is only overshadowed, and only for a while.

Up it goes

Pieces are gradually falling into place.

Is it so

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell

Don't take my sunshine away.

Power of Understanding

Trying to understand something intead of letting the feelings take over, has always done wonders for me.

Intelligent Morality

If there is ever a conflict between an intelligent decision versus an honest one; guess what: take the intelligent one. Intelligence is the only light you can trust upon. Rest are illusive, evasive and almost always ugly.

Love is self-explained.

A Minimal Human Being

I understand when people make mistakes. I make so many myself.

I also understand, though do not appreciate, when people are being dishonest. After all, we need to often fight with our instincts to remain honest.

But, I absolutely do not understand, how people can be devoid of kindness. The quality of kindness and compassion for others, should be so basic and inherent within a human being, that I can not account for cruelty by any thinkable means, be it lack of money or education or whatever. As soon as one is human, one has to have this quality. It is so essential, a human elemeent. I seriously get clueless when I see people acting cruel for no apparent benefits whatsoever.

What I am doing Right

Finishing what I start.
Not wandering much while thinking. If I need to change focus, resuming where I left off.

Meet up

My aspirations should dictate my schedule, not the schedule of others. If company is in need, I will almost always find somebody out there with the same aspirations as I do.

Can't oversay

Patience is not always natural. But it sure helps.

Horizon of intelligence

The horizon of our knowledge is limited by the extent of questions we can form.

I have more freedom, than I had suspected.

I need to exercise my ability to choose more usefully.

Reality, Truth

In a sequence of logic, not all paths are unique. So I need to soften up bindings of argument leading to a conclusion.
There are almost always a second perspective. And that one may not be any less ideal than the first one.
Reality seems to be multi-faced at least, if not multi-origined. The idea of 'either true or false but not both' may not be honored at the deepest level of reality.

Realization of Life

The holy grail of all the philosophical questions, the meaning of life, the essential truth about existence - I am one more step closer to it.

Echo

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do Not Quit

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Growing

The challenge is ramping up.

Life is a game, big time.

There is no end to problems. This is how I grow. Will grow till death.

Lets play it.

QQ

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
- Bertrand Russell

The ethics that is practically in effect

No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce

Pursuit of Happiness

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard