Emotions

Let's begin by wondering what complex emotional creatures human beings are! this is obviously evolved out of emotions in primates. Based on studies we know that Chimps have been able to display human like emotions, though primitive in nature. This brings me to the question......how did they develop complex emotions?

I was recently reading an article on Dogs, which have human like emotions...Guilt, fear, Mourning etc. cats too for that matter (i had a cat which used to get angry a lot). It has been suggested that they evolved emotions from companionship with humans. Got me thinking, could it be that the primates are advanced animals that had a social harmony in a forest like environment, and animals evolved primitive emotions from each other, and the monkeys were just the most advanced ones with a collection of all emotions! this could be it, the missing link! the emotions became more expressive and let to the development of speech, and the betterment of our five senses.

hmmm.......

Subconscious

One day I was flipping channels and I stopped when The Byrds Forrest Gump OST (Turn! Turn! Turn!) was on one VH1, I don't normally watch TV. This song made me feel like watching the movie again, and after the song finished and I moved on to my X360. The next day I was in a mall nearby and suddenly, I got reminded of Forrest Gump............10 seconds later the Byrds song starts on the mall's radio. THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE DEFINITELY.

Got me thinking. I downloaded the song and heard it again....turns out the song starts with a very low volume and takes 10-15 seconds to get to full volume. This is weird, how could I hear the song in a crowded busy mall, and how did I get reminded of Forrest Gump instead of the song itself?

Easy Explanation if you ask me, we have a seperate part of the mind which is the Subconscious which acts as a filter and collects all your input, and searches your mind to find if any related matches are important, and then brings it to your importance if something is found in the recent memory. i.e. The previous day, my need to watch the movie was reminded of by a match to this song. quite a lot of work for a little part of your brain. it's a bit like the word suggestions on google. A lot of people might have concurred this already, but no-one told me.

Most of your sudden thoughts during the day may be coming from a deep need to do/feel something, and will usually get reminded by your subconscious by related patterns in the nearby environment, it can be any of your senses! most of your thinking is done by the mind outside your awareness, only the conclusions are brought to your attention.

Don't understand yet, speak to me!

Modded my Bike

I Modified my bike completely to look like the new design, looks great now, feels great to drive and corners better due to the humongous tires.

Iron maiden in Mumbai on 1st feb

Visited Iron maiden for the second time, rode on a bike all the way from Pune to Mumbai. took a train from bangalore, picked a flight back. lost a lot of sleep. All worth it for the biggest musical inspiration in my life, have been listening to them for 10 years now. sorry about the blurry pic, my HTC TyTN isnt that good in pictures.

Got my Swift somewhere in mid February

I got a Red Swift VXi to help me drive around, as I'm not going to be using my bike from now on. Beatiful car and I'm deeply attached to it. I hope i dont screw it up as i'm a bit rough on handling the clutch.

Updates Re-booted

Just thought I'd start blogging again, I'll be talking about everything I think about daily, before I start forgetting them.

Goodbye Rian

Last night we lost Rian Das, a friend and an ex-colleague, a Metalhead and a great guy. this was in a road accident on the Mysore express highway, the cab they were in lost control and hit a truck.

Goodbye Buddy, our condolences to the family. We miss you.

Za Maatriks

I have'nt been here in a while, but I plan to post moreoften now that i got myself an HTC TyTN. any way I got online to talk about one of my all time favorite movies - The Matrix series. it was this that drove me to get deeper with my thoughts.

the movie was intended to be philosophoica, though it focuses on nihilism (or non-existance) in it's basic tones. it got me thinking how life would be percieved if intelligent machines were made to co-exist with humans, especially as our peers. i wished they should have concentrated on this relationship more than the philosophical bit. anothher recent movie emphasising on machine life is "The Transformers", though its more of a fanboy worship than anything else. I do hope there are more movies which touch this subject or i'll have to make one myself.

more on this later. cya....

Reasoning

Reasoning is the ability of an entity to judge what is right and wrong circumstancially. since mostof our society is derived from our practices, what's wrong in our culture could be neutral or even right in others, now that the cultural merge is happening, we're certain to end up one day with a set of Universal rights and wrongs (by definition)

Now how do we decide what's right and wrong, I believe this is beacuse of our attachment to our existance or selfism, we term whatever is right to suite our comfort. We support our parents because they support us, we support our friends because we're stronger and more likely to survive in a group than alone.

Asimov, a Sci-Fi author penned 3 laws for robotics, they are

1. A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Deriving from these, to project human realities

1. A Human must protect himself.
   
2. A human may not harm another human being, or, through inaction, allow another human being to come to harm.
3. A human must adhere to a defined set of "Human Behaviors", unless they conflict with the first and second rule.
   

Human behaviors could be borrowed from simple rules , a.k.a Moral Science, be kind, dont lie, that kinda stuff.

Cosmic Microwave Background - Before the Universe

I was reading through Wikipedia about the Big-Bang, the start of it all.....and this seems to be an interesting theory for believers , no matter where the arguement about god starts from, it all ends at what was before the big bang, And they jump on you saying that god exists and created the big-bang.

this brings me to the topic at hand.

I'd suggest looking up "The Cosmic Microwave Background", as this is percieved to have been the voidfiller before the big-bang. it was all microwave folks, a lot of it. and the temperature was about 3000 Celcius on an average, the instability and non-uniformity of the heat in this "background", created a bang somewhere, and the Universe has been expanding since. now the question goes to why the microwave unrest happened. while this is not know, i'd say that we'll know sooner than expected. the mystery of the universe is not far away from being de-ciphered.

The fact though is that CMB still exists as a void between the galaxies, and since it's nothing but radiation, the Universe is transparent to it. it's all still around us.

And while all the believers have a go, trying to prove that the Microwave Background was in-fact god in the first place, ask them to pray for free popcorn. cya later..........