And I was wondering the other day,( having declared the world around me as a system or rather a combination of various systems in the previous post) is it possible to arrive at some ground rules for the functioning of the system.....for some systems we already know the rules, for example we already know about the system called gravity and what its behaviour is and are not mystified by it in fact we use this knowledge to forward our own causes about this system we are at quite an advanced stage wherein we are able to predict this systems behaviour with precision of a mathematical equation...but originally we started off with the ground rule that gravity is some kind of force existing between masses that pull them towards each other.....and what I want to figure out is something of that sort . What guides life?.....the immediate answer I suppose I would get if i conduct a survey among the masses is that ...God guides life...but that is not answering the question its just giving up on it ( most of the things since the cave man time that one couldn't explain have been given the name God)...and I realized as I was reading what was just written, I used the word life in my question.....and before we move any further....what is life?....................
........(to be continued .... much later)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
The system and life
In the previous post of mine I had concluded that as long as I am inside the system...a complete understanding of it is impossible....we could be just stones in the mortar of a bigger universe, I thought.
But, one can, without even thinking much, question this statement. Why is it not possible to completely understand the system?....
.....until recently i had been thinking that if X was part of the system that was trying to understand the system then it would ultimately be left with the last piece that is itself 'X' to understand and that it was impossible to understand oneself, hence the knowledge of the system remains incomplete. But that last statement is as good as saying and blindly believing without questioning that "Steve Martin is the next bond hero!!" ......
Now how do I say that it is possible.....well
Say the X in question is divided into infinitesimally small parts (as small as one wants) each part being dx...now there are n number of dx say dx1,dx2,.....now dx1 can understand the rest of X-dx1 and dx2 can understand the rest of X-dx2 so the collective integral of all the dx has a complete understanding.... i.e the collective of dxi's understands itself i.e X understands X.....
(Mind you this proof holds true only if one doesn't question the fact that for somebody outside a system it is possible to understand it, questioning this will lead to a different discussion with the same end result that i have here).
so we can now gaily say that It is possible to understand the system.
And now that we have an enlightened X lets ask it "Ex!,hey Ex! do u know why you are in this system?"
EX Bewildered by this question ....will try and find out about the system that put it inside this system.....(realizing that it was part of a bigger system) and extending the same logic as above it understands this completely and gets bewildered again...and the loop goes on.......
Ultimately what this proves is that a complete understanding of the system is not possible and that is because it is infinite and not for any other reason...... (To be continued)
But, one can, without even thinking much, question this statement. Why is it not possible to completely understand the system?....
.....until recently i had been thinking that if X was part of the system that was trying to understand the system then it would ultimately be left with the last piece that is itself 'X' to understand and that it was impossible to understand oneself, hence the knowledge of the system remains incomplete. But that last statement is as good as saying and blindly believing without questioning that "Steve Martin is the next bond hero!!" ......
Now how do I say that it is possible.....well
Say the X in question is divided into infinitesimally small parts (as small as one wants) each part being dx...now there are n number of dx say dx1,dx2,.....now dx1 can understand the rest of X-dx1 and dx2 can understand the rest of X-dx2 so the collective integral of all the dx has a complete understanding.... i.e the collective of dxi's understands itself i.e X understands X.....
(Mind you this proof holds true only if one doesn't question the fact that for somebody outside a system it is possible to understand it, questioning this will lead to a different discussion with the same end result that i have here).
so we can now gaily say that It is possible to understand the system.
And now that we have an enlightened X lets ask it "Ex!,hey Ex! do u know why you are in this system?"
EX Bewildered by this question ....will try and find out about the system that put it inside this system.....(realizing that it was part of a bigger system) and extending the same logic as above it understands this completely and gets bewildered again...and the loop goes on.......
Ultimately what this proves is that a complete understanding of the system is not possible and that is because it is infinite and not for any other reason...... (To be continued)
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