Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Mysteries, I

We humans are always seeking to understand. The physics, chemistry, biology,mathematics etc etc that we enjoy and keep working on are a result of someone, somewhere at sometime struggling to understand nature. What we have today is amazing - a logical structure that withstands the test of time and gets changed as and when new data, new ideas come along - and that which is universal - that glues us all together - irrespective of who we are, which part of the world we live in, what else we may believe in. And then there is human behavior - call it psychology or whatever - an absolute mystery. In the sciences, as we try to keep up with new ideas, we realize that the ratio of what we know to what we do not know keeps shrinking - our questions lead us to newer places, new expeditions. Much is the same as we try to understand human behavior - except here, the rate at which our ignorance to understanding grows is much much larger. One way we can notice that is the proliferation of books that deal with humans in one way or another - the more it seems is written about human behavior, the less we understand. Logical thinking gets turned upside down, not much makes sense at times. The amazing thing is that societies continue to progress inspite of logical inconsistencies - or is it because of? (See? I am so confused!) - My objective will be to try and explore - both in a logical arena where I am comfortable and elsewhere where I have no idea what is going on.

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