Knowledge Abound

Rationality is a funny thing. When we think we are the most rational, we usually are irrational. Our tiny human intellect cannot sometime comprehend when and where we are going wrong. I would like to argue that rationality is also....a human thing. Our ideas are only.....as big as us. By Beyond My Ken - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia defines rationality as "  the quality or state of being rational – that is, being based on or agreeable to  reason". But...what is reason? Is it not something created by humans, to comprehend the cosmos? I would imagine someone like Spock from the Star Trek universe to have a completely different approach. Imagine their gods, their culture. Its completely alien to imagine so. Yet, we humans , especially a special branch of humans ( extremist scientists) claim that "everyone can be rational" and everything can be "boiled down" to physics and logic. Yes, it's true that the physics that humans developed works in describing...

This is the first possible general purpose computing device called ENIAC. It was developed in 1945, merely a 75 years ago. And this is Fujitsu Fugaku, the Japanese Supercomputer which is currently the fastest computer in the world. I'm not even going to try to measure the differences between their computing speeds. No one can comprehend anyways In just 75 years, we went from 0 to some crazy off the scale number! I know not many people bat an eye, but this is startlingly fast. Nothing has been this fast in growth in human history. Period. I personally cannot understand how the ENIAC worked. It is not comprehendible by the mind of one average guy. But that's the beauty of human knowledge, it doesn't depend on "one guy". It is the sum total of all the knowledge we humans have ever gained.  Human collective knowledge and our ability of transferring knowledge from generation to generation gave us huge evolutionary advantage to other species. I know, many people have al...

Solitude is a very special state of mind. Most people do not wish to dwell into this. It's a state of mind that can give you a peaceful vibes or equally destructive thoughts.  Personally, I'm a solitude seeking guy. You see, people and social connections are important yes and also, they are very essential for maintaining basic mental stability, but this lets you have no thoughts of your own. Everything you do and say is either a copy of someone else's mannerisms or a view of their ideas.  On the other hand thinking, it's different. Thinking is something that can't be replicated. As an example, two mathematicians solving the same problem. They might take the same approach in solving the problem but they won't think about it the same way. It's never the same thinking. In my country, India, being a silent guy is very stereotypical with being a genius. Though the trend is changing, other than the youth themselves no one else understands what youngsters are going...

 Yeah, yeah.....I know the title is kinda overstated and I might look like some random punk guy trying to be this young guy with rebellious attitude and saying this to anyone, but these are just pure thoughts of mine ( which is hugely influenced by where I spend my time online) which I would like to put out. I am sure that many people have already spoke and written about this single idea of mine, but this post  is going to be about my experience on how I understood it. This post doesn't offer a conclusion or thought process that you can hold on to, but it shines a light over a perspective I have to offer. Consider an average person. He is born in a middle class family. He is smart, ambitious wants to make his mark on the world. When he was 25, while visiting a fairly secluded temple, he walks into a beautiful orchid which was pretty reserve and undisturbed for a long time. There was a huge boulder in the middle. The man, being frustrated with his entire life until now, decides...

 I know this is kinda  subjective and sensitive topic. But I think that this topic is not given as much as attention as it should be given in the modern world. This world has been misused several times in our present generation. Especially young people, typically post that they are "#Depressed" to evoke empathy from netizens. But there are truly people out there, who are affected by this and they are the ones we need to focus on and help. Wikipedia defines depression as "a mental disorder characterized by at least two week of pervasive low mood". I consider depression as a dangerous state of mind that I never want to be in. It usually takes weeks to months to get back to your normal activity and there is no way to "speed it up". It is a dynamically unstable state of mind and its very difficult to change. I am a firm believer of rationalization. Everything could be rationally analysed through the laws of science.. But situations like death of a loved one, t...

 Everybody has their own version of beauty. Some have real life models as a role model for beauty, some hold themselves as models of beauty. But that is not the kind of beauty I am talking about here. Today I want to talk about aesthetic beauty. Before I go on...take a good look at the picture below, Its a  nice painting isn't it? Most people see nothing beyond it. Hell, today's photographs are wayyy prettier than this painting. But a painting is judged based not only on its beauty.... but also it's significance. For me, a painting is an expression of an artist's conception. It is something he/she ( Go Gender neutrality!) works on for a certain period of time......it is something different because paintings are never produced with the cold hard rationality of science. It is produced based on the artist's mood, his feelings, his thoughts... That is the effect of great art....they are more than just some colours mixed together, sometimes, they speak to us....artists w...

 We humans are pretty funny beings. We think we are at the center of the world, always, and that the world was "made" for us. Though there is a certain percentage of people who know this try to behave otherwise. I think that evolution has shaped us to be like this. Always trying to reach out to some "ideal form" of life.  "We should live the greatest lives possible."  "We should live like kings and queens." "We deserve to live a good life on this planet." But true life is not like that is it? It is something more real....something more pure.....something that isn't optimistic as us. The universe doesn't give a shit about you or your goddamn achievements. You could achieve the status of Steve Jobs, Alexander the great, or any other great guy, but ultimately, we all die. Life is inherently meaningless and all we do is find our own meaning to live out some 80 years( Average human lifespan?) and to then die. This line of thinking is...