The perceivable of our mind can be realities and can be imaginations. The life process of a conscious being is in the production of imaginations from the perceived realities as well as striving in the realization of these imaginations. However, there are also unrealizable imaginations, which are sometimes called fantasies. The best status of being is working in the realization of our own realizable imaginations. And, the worst case scenario will be indulging someone else’s fantasies.
Category: Thinking
Freedom and limitation
When we come into this world, we have various resources at our disposal. Our freedom is in the actions we can take or things we can do with the resources at hand. This should align with our thinking and imagination. (Or, the other way around.) We need the ability to see possibilities with these limited resources and take the ones that make us the happiest. I think excessive limitations on one’s action tends to degrade such ability. Therefore, it is important to design a societal structure that will maximize personal freedom, only guards against the worst harms, and only as a last resort, through the limitation of freedom.
Freedom of speech
Speech is a means of communication. It is an open communication. Not all communication is a speech so freedom of speech is not the same as the freedom of communication. It is within one’s right to make any kind of speech. However, just as any other kind of actions, one should be responsible for its consequences. Also just like any other kind of actions, the freedom can be limited only when any of its consequences are commonly agreed to be certain and damaging that the damage is not within one’s privileges to cast.
Symmetric world
In physics, symmetry is synonymous with invariance. When everything follows rules, the universe is deterministic. Uncertainty does not change and no information is produced. Under quantum mechanics, the world undergoes only reversible transformations. A purported collapse of state results in multiple universes that remain indefinitely unless it is observed one way or the other. If not, the multiplicity will merge and the “out come” will be irrelevant and immaterial.
Biological structures
Biological structures are shaped by dynamic functional requirements. The purported process is termed evolution. Studies of biological structures should be placed in these functional context with mechanisms of emergence.
Mental shelter
When one is not capable of standing the elements, one seeks shelter. This is a natural instinct that has facilitated our survival ever since we were weaklings. But, for one to arrive at an oasis, one must first grow capable of leaving the shelter and stand the elements. Such instinct extends to the mental aspect of our capability. There are small things that cater to ones mental comfort: Be it a game, be it a show, be it a sport, be it a habit, be it an article, or be it an addiction. They are all small compare to our goals that set on by our will. However, mental weakness leads to incapability of leaving such shelters.
Straightforward
We make a choice. We stick to it. We can modify it. We can change it. But, we should never forget about it.
Addiction is the lost of ability to move on
Life is a tour of the world. You come without any preconception and build up a mind of yourself. You travel through time and space, through different stages of growth and experience. And when the time comes for you to leave, you leave with nothing but your mind. Just like for any tour, moving on is just as important as moving in. If you can not, the tour will still end wherever you are.
Discipline
Mental discipline is much harder to adhere than physical discipline. However, it’s the essential drive to a higher altitude in the cruise of life.
Trap
Rudimentary are things that can get us stuck. If we can not have them scaled with ease, how are we going to navigate more intricate endeavor. Methodical is the approach…