When one considers the effect that the sub prime lending mortgage crisis is having, one cannot help but be surprised as to how the unimportant issues have overridden the important ones, and how this has led to the downward spiral that the world economy is in today. What bothers me the most is the nature [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Systems’
October 26, 2008
A Survey of Nihilist Thought
An intellectual confession that most people inclined towards individual freedom have to make, at some point, is that rejection of all authority, as under Nihilism, is something they could have considered at a point. Those of us who are sane enough to make the realization, that for all progress one needs to rely on the [...]
October 21, 2008
Chandrayaan-1 and India’s “different” strides in space
Taikonauts have been in space for a few years now, intermittently, and the Chinese space program is definitely racing ahead to catch up with the United States program, but India’s Chandrayaan-1 is surely destined for a different research direction. As an engineer associated at some point with the aerospace industry, I can feel a lot [...]
October 11, 2008
Container-based Identity and Society
Identity seems to be a fluid self-association to things, a sort of container which sits within each person, rather than a container which fits people within it.
Unfortunately, this viewpoint is not always held by people who work on a-priori bases for knowledge, its acquisition, one’s profession and identity. A case in point is India’s caste [...]
October 9, 2008
Music, Intelligence and Abstraction: Three Themes
Music as an extension of one’s intellectual process
The network of neurons that is the human brain has given rise to many logical manifestations which seem more intriguing than the construction of the brain itself. From the standpoint of a psychologist, or more interestingly, a scientist-rationalist-philosopher, it is possible to understand the brain as a creative [...]
