_it (g/h) - A Perspective

A heated argument. A debate. A battle.

I have been asked. I have been told. I presume and have been warned not to assume. The background I know not of, the foreground I can't think of.
Puzzles me.
Bewildered I am.

So, a set of questions I have.
Am I naive or intriguing??

Say what you will, says Clapton. But Keating say, You say it best when you say nothing at all.

Another question here.
Speaking mathematically, which is easier to deal with -
a deterministic setup or a probabilistic one?

A deterministic world would probably perhaps, be much simpler, a logical agent(LA) would say. Everything is straight forward and decided. What is bound to happen should happen and will happen. No worries. The plan is laid out. The consequences of all actions can be reasonably estimated and the best path or the minimum risk direction can be chosen. It seems one has to play sensibly and be at peace.
Yet, going by what we humans are made of. We get bored. We need change. We need to something more than this.

But on the other hand, in a probabilistic world, things are totally the contrary. There is nothing certain. Things though well defined and logical, are uncertain, whatever the extent may be. It seems like an eternal state of confusion with nothing definite and makes one wonder what is the point of such a mess.
Well, there exists a brighter side to this too. Since there is no certainty, there is hope. Along with confusion, there comes the hope, the optimism, the will and the determination. Even when you are in the dumps, down the dark dungeons of life, you can manage to see a thin delicate silvery thread, your only source to light. Beaming voices of "Expecto patronum" ring and sight of the Dementors running helter-skelter you imagine.

What would you prefer now- perfectly order or fuzzy logic?
Is it a trade-off then? May be.

The ups and downs are now in the open.
How do I decide?
Listen to the heart or the mind?

Drawing parallels here, we get back to the chicken-egg problem. The choice between the mind and the heart is the same as that between determinism and 'probabilism'.

So dare to make a call. Nyah, I guess.

Well yes. This is a Friday night. And yes. I am just penning down my boredom.

There's more than that meets the eye.

".......I have witnessed their capacity for courage, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime...... "

This is the dialog from the movie "The Transformers" which I just watched yesterday. I was so fascinated that I watched the movie again on my computer today. Well, I am a robot freak and hence happened to like the movie but that is not the point of this post.

A widely acknowledged adage goes as "A man is what he does". As popularly claimed, it is often so easy to 'read' a person's action, then 'analyze and interpret them'. But rarely do we really understand the doer or the doer's intent this way. The analysis and conclusions that follow happen in accordance to our whims and fancies. The mind plays a trick on us and makes logically illogical matter appear in a way we want to see them, in a perfectly coherent and sensible manner. How unsuspecting we are about this!!(sigh)

An unexplainable bias always exist there. Not easy it is to get rid of.

On a totally different note, however confident we are, about these understandings of ours, we are never able to unequivocally state what we feel, for there is, an inherent fear. The fear of may be we are wrong. A battle of what ifs and buts erupt in our brains. Our thoughts go skewed beyond known limits.

We somehow seem to know or is it just that it is in our nature to doubt?

The mind as many believe has probably been the greatest boon to mankind, but never know, may become its greatest bane too.

We can only read actions accurately but perhaps never read into them correctly.

Man is a strange being beyond simple comprehension. There is definitely more to him than meets the eye. May be he is the true Transformer.