Pointers to brain

I don’t know but something has led me to post more blogs these days. I used to maintain a diary during my undergrad years till quite recently, and in it I used to write my thoughts and ideas as is. With ‘as is’ I mean, that unlike writing a blog or a comment to a blog, which needs to be read again to make it sound coherent and flowing, my writings in the diary were exactly the words I used to think in. The ideas which were very clear in my mind, when written in a diary, used to come out as words totally abstract. The entries in my diary are so abstract that no one else can ever understand what I am trying to say there. But, when I read them again even now, I can recall the context, my mood and exactly what I was trying to say when I wrote those words. Its amazing how those simple English sentences are cryptic messages that only I can decode. They are like pointers to my brain analogous to pointers in C++. They store the address location of the idea that came to my mind some years back. As soon as my mind sees those seemingly vague sentences it goes to the address location that still stores that idea and every data point is available to the active memory! It is quite amazing actually. It also tells me that our brain’s storage capacity is enormous. To further elaborate on this, consider this – when we recall something that happened years back, we actually recall those instances the way our eyes had recorded them - as clear motion pictures of extremely high quality (not as text files). Considering how many things we remember and can recall when encountered with small pointers, it is amazing how much we store in our brain!

I think a diary should not become extinct because of blogging. Most of the texts we read or write – in books, internet or papers are carefully crafted collections of sentences. One idea flows from the previous one and everything falls into place. A diary is the only proper manifestation of the complicated way our brain works. It needs no revisions simply because a diary is for ourselves to be read again and a blog is for others. One motivation of writing this is a hope that other bloggers realize what I am trying to say and dig up their diaries to read them again – to discover what pointers to brain exist in them!

Convergence

In our society, a convergence is required, or a compromise is required. Or else, a better personality would do – someone who is not in the first standard deviation of the Gaussian distribution of the ideas of our society. Well, by this I mean on the positive half of the Gaussian of course. There are numerous examples to prove this, and the best one is how people have good idea that some things are bound to occur or understand well the causality of different events. Convergence as such may be very difficult to achieve. It requires a fine equilibrium – mental and social. It requires perseverance as well as patience. If the fine equilibrium of convergence is disturbed, the situation gets converted to an avalanche of ignorance, which gets intensified by perseverance, a simple effect of funnel shaped free energy landscape of the entire situation (the goal is to reach the bottom of the funnel together). The avalanche should be dealt with patience and a stable mind set. Since convergence is not an equilibrium situation, an avalanche is quite inevitable I believe. But the avalanche can be controlled. That’s the key – by moving up the free energy curve. But, that requires work. And yes, moving up the free energy curve requires thermal energy. Higher the thermal energy, better the chances of saving the avalanche. Confused? Its crystal clear to me!