How did the first inhabitants of this beautiful planet cope with it for the first time. How wonderfully, seeing and experiencing this great phenomena, did they design and form our seasons, then the festivals around them and the rituals that followed. And how century after century human kind diligently followed it, without discovering the science behind it all.
Oh My Dearest Brother
Love regards and respect
What an extremely interesting post you have penned down, I assume that you still do the writing on paper before putting it across to us. That your words are correct and there are not typos unlike me, I have chosen what I did on top.. for a discussion on your today’s post.
There are several issues that could be picked for example the love for mother tongue's, the great advancement of Hindi Cinema or even the origin of inclement weather and not human reactions to it.
We were taught that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. True, that is science but otherwise also we react to many phenomena and events as if they were some sort of acts or actions. In fact they are as they all are possible only when some energy is spend, and when energy is spend some work is done, and that in the language of basic physics constitutes action. Yesterday itself you meant something of a reaction of the co-traveller and also your possible reactions to his actions. Human mind has been trained to respond to some of the actions with a particular kind of reaction.
How did we pick up to react is what is more basic question that faces us, how did the life really originated on this earth is the most difficult question to answer that possibly does not have a unique or rather a satisfying answer. All living things act to react to some stimulus. The science does not exist in our having accepted and naming of the festivals, seasons or colors or whatever we finally named what we named them (Though some of my friends would disagree with me! That is the science of nomenclature!). It was just formed from some collective beliefs and probably lot of assumptions which nobody thought useful to question or find answers to. Yet we all know that time which is the basis of all our celebration rituals of our existence, is a unique parameter of their occurrences and is a bit of a science.
In fact, there is not one soul on this earth who would not do things in some time frame - useful or otherwise including sleeping, eating or whatever one does. Who can be a better judge of the value of time than you- who did not let go the most opportune time to act in as many films as was humanly possible when it mattered most - I remember there were times when you did five shifts in a day! a good concept of the importance and a clear understanding of the significance of the time was involved.
Time, we all know is a physical quantity that has been very well defined and has a role played by the sun and the moon and our earth! Atomic clocks or ordinary shadow clocks they both were used to tell the time. Even today villagers can tell the time from the length of their own shadows. So, when we speak in terms of time we are having a scientific bend of mind without actually knowing it. Time has been accepted as the fourth dimension in science.
I do not say that every one of us is a practicing scientist by doing so - it only goes to prove that some of the science has been integrated into our existence without our knowledge of it being accepted as science. You ask any housewife whether she would use clippers for holding hot things or use bare hands- the knowledge of the fact that hot is hot and that heat burns comes to us from our years of experience and is almost woven into our genes- we do not treat it as science but the moment the heat is used to convert into some other form of energy say electrical energy - we immediately register that it is science.
Oh! I do not know where this discussion is heading and what kind of conclusions I want to convey to the readers of this post. When this happens we call such ideas and minds as unchannelised or sometimes incongruent thoughts. The other day you were expounding upon the concept of multitasking and had a genuine question - whether it is good or bad for our development. I would say both! If multitasking was so simple and easy we would have no classification and specialisation of fields and personnel! If it was the other way round - the life would not have progressed thus far in terms of development. If there were no brains who could co-ordinate the knowledge assimilated from different disciplines by way of discussion or understanding we would not have had any types of the power reactors (symbolic sense) . The intermingling or interdependency of one subject over another is sometimes very obvious and at times not so straight forward. You ask anyone the utility of the knowledge of Physics and Mathematics in any engineering venture and you will find that there would be a great consensus about this theory! I think I am going really wild in emphasising the role of science. It is not so essential. Everyone can not be a scientist or rather everyone need not be a scientist.
The human kind has found that a coexistence of several disciplines in form of knowledge encompasses us into multi-tasking entities. Not just for our survival but also for achieving excellence. For example - Human body is a multi-tasking machine - the understanding of many different concepts is not an easy thing when one goes deep into a subject - but a peripheral or working knowledge of several subjects does help us a great deal.
I admit here that this particular post could be too dry for many readers who have taken to like to read my posts. Some of them may be driven away from me and I am sure some others might also get attracted as well. As such the length of my posts is a hinderance in itself, the amount of time one may need to spend on these posts could be a seriously limiting factor in my popularity on the blog!
I finally conclude today’s blog with the words that more and more of us are moving towards multitasking and acquiring greater amount of knowledge in a wide variety of subjects to manage ourselves well in an evolutionary fashion!
Abhaya Sharma, India March 14/15 2009 12:36 AM IST
Oh My Dearest Brother
Love regards and respect
What an extremely interesting post you have penned down, I assume that you still do the writing on paper before putting it across to us. That your words are correct and there are not typos unlike me, I have chosen what I did on top.. for a discussion on your today’s post.
There are several issues that could be picked for example the love for mother tongue's, the great advancement of Hindi Cinema or even the origin of inclement weather and not human reactions to it.
We were taught that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. True, that is science but otherwise also we react to many phenomena and events as if they were some sort of acts or actions. In fact they are as they all are possible only when some energy is spend, and when energy is spend some work is done, and that in the language of basic physics constitutes action. Yesterday itself you meant something of a reaction of the co-traveller and also your possible reactions to his actions. Human mind has been trained to respond to some of the actions with a particular kind of reaction.
How did we pick up to react is what is more basic question that faces us, how did the life really originated on this earth is the most difficult question to answer that possibly does not have a unique or rather a satisfying answer. All living things act to react to some stimulus. The science does not exist in our having accepted and naming of the festivals, seasons or colors or whatever we finally named what we named them (Though some of my friends would disagree with me! That is the science of nomenclature!). It was just formed from some collective beliefs and probably lot of assumptions which nobody thought useful to question or find answers to. Yet we all know that time which is the basis of all our celebration rituals of our existence, is a unique parameter of their occurrences and is a bit of a science.
In fact, there is not one soul on this earth who would not do things in some time frame - useful or otherwise including sleeping, eating or whatever one does. Who can be a better judge of the value of time than you- who did not let go the most opportune time to act in as many films as was humanly possible when it mattered most - I remember there were times when you did five shifts in a day! a good concept of the importance and a clear understanding of the significance of the time was involved.
Time, we all know is a physical quantity that has been very well defined and has a role played by the sun and the moon and our earth! Atomic clocks or ordinary shadow clocks they both were used to tell the time. Even today villagers can tell the time from the length of their own shadows. So, when we speak in terms of time we are having a scientific bend of mind without actually knowing it. Time has been accepted as the fourth dimension in science.
I do not say that every one of us is a practicing scientist by doing so - it only goes to prove that some of the science has been integrated into our existence without our knowledge of it being accepted as science. You ask any housewife whether she would use clippers for holding hot things or use bare hands- the knowledge of the fact that hot is hot and that heat burns comes to us from our years of experience and is almost woven into our genes- we do not treat it as science but the moment the heat is used to convert into some other form of energy say electrical energy - we immediately register that it is science.
Oh! I do not know where this discussion is heading and what kind of conclusions I want to convey to the readers of this post. When this happens we call such ideas and minds as unchannelised or sometimes incongruent thoughts. The other day you were expounding upon the concept of multitasking and had a genuine question - whether it is good or bad for our development. I would say both! If multitasking was so simple and easy we would have no classification and specialisation of fields and personnel! If it was the other way round - the life would not have progressed thus far in terms of development. If there were no brains who could co-ordinate the knowledge assimilated from different disciplines by way of discussion or understanding we would not have had any types of the power reactors (symbolic sense) . The intermingling or interdependency of one subject over another is sometimes very obvious and at times not so straight forward. You ask anyone the utility of the knowledge of Physics and Mathematics in any engineering venture and you will find that there would be a great consensus about this theory! I think I am going really wild in emphasising the role of science. It is not so essential. Everyone can not be a scientist or rather everyone need not be a scientist.
The human kind has found that a coexistence of several disciplines in form of knowledge encompasses us into multi-tasking entities. Not just for our survival but also for achieving excellence. For example - Human body is a multi-tasking machine - the understanding of many different concepts is not an easy thing when one goes deep into a subject - but a peripheral or working knowledge of several subjects does help us a great deal.
I admit here that this particular post could be too dry for many readers who have taken to like to read my posts. Some of them may be driven away from me and I am sure some others might also get attracted as well. As such the length of my posts is a hinderance in itself, the amount of time one may need to spend on these posts could be a seriously limiting factor in my popularity on the blog!
I finally conclude today’s blog with the words that more and more of us are moving towards multitasking and acquiring greater amount of knowledge in a wide variety of subjects to manage ourselves well in an evolutionary fashion!
Abhaya Sharma, India March 14/15 2009 12:36 AM IST
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