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I wonder if any of you read that line by line. Unlikely. Our brain catches the pattern, and we move along to see what's next. Some people may not have even bothered to look down here. (I don't think that would be a very large number, because there's a bit of curiosity in each one of us).
Now, that pattern is how our life is. Now, what did you read? 1... 2... 3... 4... 5...?
Is that all that's written above? Well, not really. There are commas spread about randomly in the matrix. Did you notice them at first glance? Or did you notice them after I mentioned them? Well, that's, as I said, life.
All lives go through a very fixed pattern. Fixed stages. Fixed phases. So that, at a distance, there really is no difference. Birth. Learning to crawl, walk, talk. Learning about surroundings. Learning about behaviour. Learning, in general, to see the pattern, and go along with it. Then another generation goes through the same series.
Now, take out your magnifying glasses. Do all ants look identical? Hmmm. Maybe. Okay, now how about a microscope? Whoa!!!! There are major differences!!! Just like the commas in the matrix. But did you really bother to try that out? Putting an ant under a microscope? Well, I didn't. Though I would be interested in doing it sometime. But I know from the patterns I've seen in life that there are bound to be things which I'll observe to prove that it's not really a pattern.
I'm not just playing around with words. The bulk of us don't really bother to inspect whether or not there exists a pattern. We just assume that there is or isn't. Some of us do so coz we've already been fooled by deviations from the obvious so often. Lets look at those who do observe. Lets say, researchers. Or scientists. Graham Bell invented Telephone. How? By observing something that made something fall out of a pattern. And what did he do? Created another pattern. Now almost every house has a telephone. It's become a mandatory component of any household. Now, much later, came the cell phone. Deviation from pattern? And brought in a pattern from that.
Now, what does that mean? Ok, we come back to our third law of thermodynamics: Entropy increases (Disorder increases) with time. That's not all. It, sort of means, we try to set some things to what we call “order” by actually giving rise to disorder. Well, that's not really as bad as it might sound. In the sense, the “disorder” is something physical. But are we getting into some sort of order at a mental level?
Say, I invent a desk with shelves. So I've caused another deviation from the norm. But my things are much tidier. I access them with less worry. Or, say, I invented a weird car. It helps me get to work faster, safe more fuel, listen to excellent music while I go to work. Or, maybe, a microwave. I waste less food since I can store it in the fridge and reheat it and eat it the next day.
But what that's coming to is that we want something called “Peace of mind”. Or whatever level of that we can get. Bring down tension, bring down brute work, relax the mind. So that we can use that brain in an area which doesn't yet have these soothers. We can't have an automatic programming machine. Or a fully automated stock broker. So we need to save our strain for working on those, in the hope that someday we could automate those too. How long will this go on? Frankly, it'll go on forever. We'll automate all the things we see around us now, but by that time, somebody who was spending his time with all the soothers will imagine something that we don't see around us. That'll come out as some Sci-Fi book or movie. Then, it'll enter minds of young re-discovery enthusiasts (miniature scientists) who will get into research and make the Sci-Fi a reality. Meanwhile we'll have something else to dream about...
I think you got the point. But these scientists aren't all that large in number. So what we call “Rapid progress” is just an inkling of things to come. The rest of the working population's busy providing a self-consistent structure by which the entire population attempts to survive. Yes, we would still have the aberrations of short life, physical and mental handicaps, and so on. They form their own pattern.
Now, lets say, we decided that all the research and the deviation from patterns that it causes, is unnatural. (Just to see how it looks). That means no new inventions. Great! So we'd know how the existing products function. Would we? Who would fix bugs? Hmmm. Isn't fixing bugs also a deviation from nature? After all, error is part of nature, just like we have handicaps. So stop servicing products. Well, if we're not going to make new products, and not going to service any, then what about manufacturing? We have an expanding population. So maybe our production should just meet the Growth Rate. And choice of product isn't required. Quality? Huh! Not natural. Say, the machines take in chemicals and modify them! Dangerous! Scrap them! Houses? Nah. Other animals don't protect themselves with materials that make you choke and cough. Go back to caves. No fire, please. Unless it starts off by itself. And then you can observe what direction the other animals seem to be going in, and follow them, hoping not get run over by a herd. Now, we have reached eternal bliss. No artificial disorder. Disorder, as it is: natural. That is certainly progress. After all, aren't today's scientists struggling to make stuff as natural as they can? Or is there something missing in the above discussion? Oh, heck! Sorry, guys! This blog is totally unnatural! You weren't supposed to read it either! Now you've deviated from nature!!!!!!!!!
6 comments:
As usual... Varn thinks! :)
It turns out that line by line, there are too many different characters for you to keep track... After 12345 with ... in between, your brain loses the stray ,
On the other hand, column-wise it is the same 11111 and ..... which means a stray , stands out much more.
An interesting exercise indeed!!
I am still trying to find out WHY I happened to switch to column mode in the first place... but I guess it is just one of those optimizations the brain does!
You certainly have a point on the order within disorder and even vice versa. I am just wondering at the really macroscopic level - does the same theory hold? i.e. the perturbations you observe in human life are surely insignificant in the cosmic sense. But in the universal context, do we see the same interaction between order and disorder? Are you saying the third law leads to order? Surely the only way to have order is to have nothing: but then does `order in nothing' even make sense?
I sense a central theme in your blogs... I just can't quite identify it - yet.
not bad!! :)
This has to be unarguably, one of the most interesting and original things that I've read, in the recent times. One word- awesome. I like the words here... your style of writing. Words laid out in a way that they strike to the core and not a sinle letter is wasted. Like a straight line. Amazing clarity and this is the only language I understand. Hoping for more.
Good article buddy !!
Thanks for your appreciation, Anonymous. However, I think it would have been nicer if
1. You revealed your identity, or
2. You put forward why you liked the post.
Awesome dude, I like your thinking, your tone, your language. You are a genius in the making so keep the good work and keep thinking.
I love patterns too!
And yes man, anonymity is a problem on the internet. But that dude could have been just lazy to login ;)
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