On the contrary, I reason
it ought to be like that,
I remind ; what I forget,
- as opposed to what?
Doesn't matter, does it?
when the grass there is green
And here it never tidies
as much as you clean.
Immaculate is possible
but never at home,
then we wonder why winds blow,
why from here they go.
the reason for travel
is a yearning for some where,
it would be better, I suppose
if we roam without care.
"It would be better , I suppose"
-the reason for dissatisfaction,
for improvement, for jealousy,
for comparision, for our action.
8th february 2009
IIT Delhi
As humans, our mere ability to think 'What if?' makes us believe that we are in control. But do we really change things, do we affect the reality. If we do , to what degree? It is said that if a butterfly makes an extra flap of its wings, the reality can change so much so that after a decade a nonexistent cyclone can result.Is it really true? Even if it is, does the butterfly really have a control enough to make that extra flap? Is it really free will or an illusion of free will? A very fascinating example is seen in first person games like Prince of Persia or God of wars and so on.The game makers try hard to give the gamers a feeling that they can do anything in that virtual world. The game programmers know very well though that they can program only a limited number of options. There cannot be more than a finite number of stimulus- response pairs that they would have programmed. Even then, while we play the game we feel that we are in complete control (at least that is the ai
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