Ramblings of life and science

Thing are moving really fast.
Gone are the days when memory was forced to play the tutor to the insipid life one lived. Technology has become the stick for us mortal humans to lean on to continue in our quest for life. In wanting to live longer to unearth the cosmic secrets, we are merging our minds and souls with robots and losing ourselves in the realms of steel and technology and digging deeper within their tin souls to answer questions that have haunted us for centuries.

Wheels and circles
The wheel gave birth to circles and cycles and ever since, life began to imitate that looped thing. Seeds planted. Trees growing. Flowers blooming. Pollen transportation. Seeds falling and trees growing elsewhere. This existed even before we began. But we wanted to implement this further. The cycle we created is now reflected in everything we see, hear touch and feel and taste. It’s in senses and in our genes. In our cells, molecules, atoms and maybe even in our consciousness and soul. Karma. Lifetime lifecycle.  It’s not just the cycle but the goddamn speed of the cycle too. Pushed by hand, then foot, then peddled and motored and now thrust with such horsepower that physical strength can only fathom in dreams. Speed has lead the way we exist. Traffic on roads reflects the petty life we follow. Overtake or be overtaken. Cut lanes to reach fast. Slow and steady is a myth. The wheels turn faster now. On us, on the things we eat, smell and touch and everything we see and know. Fruits grow faster. Animals die faster. Humans grow old faster. Products are born faster. Pause and wonder if there’s a mortality rate for brands too???
Our breathing is getting fast too – not to match the dogs but the heart racing is opening more possibilities. We prefer short and great to slow and good. We think fast, act fast and are sorry quicker. The wheel. The axel. The transportation that changed the surface of the earth and the skylines of our environment and imagination. We are no less than the rats in a maze. One breaks out and soon, all break out. One breaks the four mile barrier and soon, we are bettering that time every year, and we are getting quicker quicker. The world around us is evolving at a pace that we cannot comprehend. Sure, we cannot see the earth spinning, but by the time night has turned to day, the world is more different that the one we slept in the previous night. Fast is slow.

The reign of technology
We are getting used to democracy. An idea that was born centuries ago is being lived today. Nations turning to it faster than ever. Flawed in practice and maybe in theory too but in this day – nothing is perfect. The gamble is which will last longer. We fight for freedom. Of speech, of thought, of life and of anything we think. But in the pursuit of that freedom, we have given birth to machines which are now controlling us. Memory controlled by phones and hard disks that hold all the essential data. The maker is now the product. Emotions giving way to electrical impulses. We began as Pavlov but are now his dog. We feel we have achieved and are growing and getting better. Sure we are. But who’s really winning? Humans or technology? Consciousness or an artificial intelligence that can predict our future. Religions have created a higher being called God in some languages. Technology in it’s infinite attempt to prove that wrong has created a robot which is says reflects the essence of life and worships it as God. The holy grail of science is to replace that misplaced notion of an invisible existence and replace it with a man-made creation. Circle of life?

Creating a barrier of knowledge
There was a time when the unknown excited us. The quest to learn more was worth dying for. We love to define our environment in order to feel safe. Communication gave birth to language that began to compartmentalize our minds. Creativity is not a gift. Innovation is not genuine but the gift for the mind to see what others didn’t see earlier. It’s to extend that one pencil mark a further more. There’s nothing new out there. We gave birth to notions like Butterfly Theory and now, pondering over the existence of the Hummingbird theory. The former explains causality of physical work, the latter, the causality of intellectual and mental dominoes. Evolution has hardwired our brains. Rats in a maze, monkeys soaking salted bananas and humans, evolving with learning from innovations of peers. What then is NEW, UNIQUE but mere words to reflect our egoistic being from accepting the thought that all that we think and feel is an amalgamation of what we have seen, heard, touched, felt and tasted/experienced. Our senses are the diaries of our lives that pave our way forward. Are we in control or are we being controlled? We borrow the intellect of others, store what we read in our subconscious mind and when the time comes to think out of the box, we feel great that it came out of nowhere. A flash of light. Is it then truly our thought? But then again, can a leap of faith be explained by science? It’s like scientists proving the existence of God. A temple where the head priest is a Nobel Prize winner and collaborator and finder of the Higgs Boson. The race for knowledge and the desperation to define our surroundings has blinded our vision to see the unseen and know the unknown. A baby gives birth to a mother and death gives birth to life. Not vice versa.


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