Well let me wirte a bit about the naming of the URL... its a combination of two of the names I have used in my CS Profile... When I first started CS it was a treat... Having 30 guys on the same map the eve of the dreaded exams is a treat that cannot be forgotten...
One of the great things about self learning is that it is usually unpredictable... sure it might not be as technically correct but it sure brings the element of surprise... When I first started playing TT I had a friend as a coach... after 32 straight defeats I got my first victory... He stopped playing shortly afterwards... But after 5 years later it sure is great to realize that everythime I play a backhand the opponent is guessing... cuz the technically correct opponent has no idea of how under the most unbelievable of circumstances the ball comes flying back from impossible positions... Well its something like Physics, or for that matter something like all of our worlds...
I am amongst those who feel the world is different for all of us... A 5000 Angstrom of wavelenght but causing a sensory perception of green is extraordinary... So I believe that our understanding of the world the environment and our concepts are entirely ours... When a teacher teaches, he states facts about the world from his own perception... However exactly what it is in the mind of the student depends in the imagination of the student himself...
Its like the books that have been made into movies... The Harry Potter novel was something in our imagination, but to see the magic on the screen was something entirely different... Da Vinci Code similarly failed all expectations as it was not the way we had imagined it to be...
It raises the difficult question... The matrix scenario... Do we all see things around us in the same way... I know I call a certain colour green and the others do it too by association, but seriously is there any way to know whether you see a fainter green than I do or maybe see my 'red' instead...
Really troubling I must say... However its this strong belief in the general unification in which we all believe... We would rather like to hope that people see the same things as ourselves, just as the Physicists hope that the Grand Unified Theory will encompass all that has been ever discovered...
I guess religion is also intended for the same puropose... It simply provides a tool for all of us to see each other as friends rather than strangers... These days though it has become a tool for political violence...
Coming to the life and death yet again, it is seriously difficult to comprehend that there is no consciousness after death.. The pattern of the atoms in harmony that we know of life is broken... All the atoms are then left to fend for themselves, void of the unity that was me...
Of ghosts and angels, the stories are just a mechanism to provide hope I believe... Hope that all is not futile, fear that immoral acts will bear punishment... Really takes an effort to carry on with the daily soceital living inspite of seeing the void future... Thats when the beauty appeals... As Feynman said that the beauty that we have been lucky enough to percieve from such a high mental framework is all that you need to realize that life has given much more than death can probably take away...
RANTING WORKS...
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