Saturday, November 26, 2005

thinking the unthinkable

The human mind is a complex thing. But some times I think that this is all planned. Someone knows that what a human will do in his entire life. There must be someone who has programmed the human mind. What if it is true? Then lets take the example of a fish, the mother fish goes to a place far away to lay the eggs and when the eggs hatch the baby fish goes to the same place from the place it’s mama came from. Is it not that the little fish is programmed to do it. Yes for some people but the human’s case is different. The human baby gets knowledge by experience. As the baby grows it gains experience and it’s thinking expands. But still there is a probability that the mind is pre programmed. Perhaps I am writing this message because I have been programmed to do this. If the brain is programmed then there must be a limitation. Yes that’s my point. We have to search its limitation. But the problem is there is no limitation. The brain can think any thing. But it is possible that the brain thinks what it is programmed to think. Perhaps Einstein was programmed to think what he discovered. Now the question comes that can a brain think something what it is not programmed. Now take the example of a blind man, can he think of colors. Well if you ask a blind man to think of colors e.g. red he won’t be able to think. Can you think of an ultra violet color of an infrared color? But if you close your eyes then there will not be much of a difference between a blind man and you. But you can think of the red color. Red for fire, for blood. Is it very difficult to think red? But you have seen red color, that’s why it is easy for you to think. But is it impossible for a blind man to think about the red color. No, not impossible it’s just that he will never think of. Just think how will a fourth dimension look like. Our world is three-dimensional so it is quite impossible to imagine something like that. It is possible to think the unthinkable but it’s just that we will never think that.

Then let’s think of something that we can think. If I was a programmer what will I expect from a software that I created? The software that is capable of creating a software from itself, a software that can think and do things that it is supposed to do. Will I make a limitation to its thoughts? Will I stop it’s minds to think something that it should not think. The question is will it be possible to fix a barrier in the human thoughts. If there is a barrier and if we are unable to break it then we might create something that has no barrier. A special human that can think the unthinkable.

Who knows, perhaps we are the special humans that are created to think the unthinkable, to do something that our creator could not do. And if we are not the special ones that we are those blind people that can never think of the red color. We just cannot imagine what is not programmed. So there is nothing to be happy about our discoveries, after all, all is pre programmed and we have discovered only that what we were supposed to think.

Uttoransen
A thinker.