Today while travelling in metro, I was reading a portrait of the artist as a young man by James Joyce - Perfect combination for someone to get philosophical. It was then that a thought struck my mind. Movement of everything, from as big as heavenly bodies like stars and planets to as small as atoms and molecules, is bound by a certain law. Then lets act the way Heisenberg did and say world is symmetric. So if the movement of planets is bound and so is the movement of atoms, then why can’t we say that our movements are also bound by a certain law which may be too complicated to be understood by us?
Well certainly this theme has been explored earlier also by movies like ‘Pi’ but think of it this way. If such a law really exists, then can things like numerology, astrology, fortune telling, crystal balls, etc etc etc may be various approximations to that law thus ‘calculating’ the future to some extent. Then maybe everything we call superstitions are just because of our narrow mindedness. Should it be called superstition that our mind tends to accept only things that have been proven? Then how are we better than all those people who refused to accept that earth was round and those who denied the concept that earth went round the sun?
A few people who may have read Joyce may say he has got to my head and probably they are right. Maybe I will forget about the narrow mindedness of not accepting future predictions by tomorrow and continue to be a ‘rational’ person but now writing my thoughts out may keep it in my mind for some what a longer duration of time.
Expecting quite elaborative discussions.
Well certainly this theme has been explored earlier also by movies like ‘Pi’ but think of it this way. If such a law really exists, then can things like numerology, astrology, fortune telling, crystal balls, etc etc etc may be various approximations to that law thus ‘calculating’ the future to some extent. Then maybe everything we call superstitions are just because of our narrow mindedness. Should it be called superstition that our mind tends to accept only things that have been proven? Then how are we better than all those people who refused to accept that earth was round and those who denied the concept that earth went round the sun?
A few people who may have read Joyce may say he has got to my head and probably they are right. Maybe I will forget about the narrow mindedness of not accepting future predictions by tomorrow and continue to be a ‘rational’ person but now writing my thoughts out may keep it in my mind for some what a longer duration of time.
Expecting quite elaborative discussions.
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