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,

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