Friday, March 10, 2006

Noyes?

Vacilltions, dilly dallyings, dilemmas...

Thinking about it, I get reminded of situations when we have to make decisions in life. Be it a trivial one or otherwise, we ponder over it and finally decide on something. This choosing between "yes" and "no" is what life is largely about.
Though it sounds simple enough, there is a whole lot of strings attached.
Saying "Yes" when
- you want to say 'Yes'
- you want to say 'No'
- you say whatever others say
- you want to say 'How the hell am I supposed to know?'
and the same set of condition applies to saying "No"

Computers - they live on "Yes" and "No" and nothing else. It is a wonder that such simple(??) set of rules is the root of such intelligence. Think about being able to do all that you can today with all sorts of convergence of technologies. Such complexities spring from the simplest of systems - yes and no, '1' and '0'.

Fractals - I dont know much about them except that they are a system with fractional dimensions. They have only a very limited set of rules that can be applied. That will be something like say two components - a base and a generator and they produce a whole world of fascinating results.

Life - Coming back to making decisions, why do we find it more difficult with ourselves than what happens with computers. That's because of two reasons.
1. The rules that we define for each of us is not necessarily the same and (worse)
2. We make an extra decision of whether to play by our own rules or not!!!

Life is beautiful...

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Learn to say YES to NO - Ko