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.

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.

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

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.

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

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..

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.

Unknowable

Reality is but the easiest imagination.

QQ

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

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.

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.

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".

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.

QQ

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

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..

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?

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