Friday, October 16, 2009

What matters ?


I shall start my blog today by asking you ( assuming that my blog has some readers !) , what are the things that matter in your life ? Have a think ... my guess is that your answer will include things like ; family, money, health - all things that can be measured and counted in the world of our eyes, but your answer may also include entities that cannot be weighed in the normal sense for example : success in work, happiness, love, etc. Of course these answers are still very broad in their scope and you could proceed to further dissect 'success in work' for example into smaller sub entities that are better defined, like success in your studies or in your project, and to define success the world may assign grades to your homework assignment or exam or perhaps pay you in the case of a job. Indeed as you dissect all these things that matter in your life, you may begin to realize that ultimately it is the world that defines your level of fulfillment in these matters, whether it be by assigning grades , payment of money or through institutions like marriage to measure your love ! You are a slave to the rules of society. Isn't it absurd that all these things that matter to YOU are defined by someone else ?! All your ambitions and dreams are based around a framework created by the world. We are all like sheep simply following the mass movement of the flock without asking whether the flock itself knows where it is going or why it is going anywhere at all. From all that I have said, it may sound like I am very critical of this 'world defined success', but I assure you this is not the case. I think it is a natural for every species to develop these rules of society and have members measure themselves against them and become attuned to them. However, I have come to realize that most of us go on living our lives blind. Blind because the truth of our life and existence is covered in thick layers of rules, grades, money, and emotions. What is 'good' and 'evil' ? 'Good' and 'evil' are surely nothing more than manufactured products of the world society machine. The Universe knows no 'good' or 'evil' they are simply products of the societal psyche or products of behavioral evolution. What is 'power' ? So many of us strive for 'power', 'fame', 'status'. All these are just goals of an enslaved mind, they are ephemeral concepts that exist only in the minds of humans. So what is real ? Quite simply, only science is real. But who am I to define reality ? And how can we define reality ?! For me, reality are all things independent of the human societal framework, properties described by the time and space invariant laws of Physics. Interestingly my definition banks on essentially holding the laws of Physics constant over the scope of the known dimensions. Dimensions therefore, become key in defining reality, and in this case if one were to ask what exists beyond the Universe of my dimensions, I would have to answer that the question is meaningless for me because it is beyond the limits of 'reality' !