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Education and free will

We all know about the perennial paradox of whether free will exists or not. Simply putting, is it my free will directing this statement or was it destined to be written with apriori finite probability. I would like to take this opportunity to go one step further and say Intelligence is the enemy of free will. Being intelligent beings, we start learning as soon as we are born, and it is this education which teaches us principles of morality, codes of ethics, etiquette of society. This, in my opinion, slowly but steadily precludes us from exercising our free will. But human intelligence doesn't give up yet. We have figured out probabilistic mathematical theory for origin of our universe (and also possible other universes), and that the initial conditions were just right for intelligent life forms to appear and survive in our universe. Ignorance is Bliss!

Love n death

No, this is not a tribute to great great Woody Allen. I was analysing human emotions and was trying to determine causal relationship among them and that's when I made an interesting observation. Does death mean anything without love? I would go one step further and claim that love doesn't mean anything without death. And by 'death' I mean loss of our lives one moment at a time. I guess that's why the Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. We will never be here again. This moment ... has passed!

Vis-a-vis

Most of the religions agree unanimously on existence of one and only one omniscient, omnipresent entity called the GOD. All their life humans pray for different things. I think the whole deal with the prayers is that humans want to close gap between their own lifestyle and their perception of the god's lifestyle so that when they are face to face with the almighty they can relate to Him. In Hinduism, there are millions of gods and according to the literature they had a very social life-style consisting of united families, multiple brothers and sisters, and numerous relatives. And India menifests most of these qualities in their society today where social bonding is as imporatnt as individual growth. Where as in Christianity, there is only one god and supreme imporatance is given to Him. His life-style essentially menifested sense of independence and individualism. It should come as no surprize that most western societies have developed with these fundamentals in mind.

Everything or Nothing?

We have invented language as a means to transferring knowledge (product of accumulated intelligence) and now we have words like conscious, unconscious and subconcious in our dictionary. What is ironical is that we the living (conscious) beings are unconscious sometimes! One way to characterize is to say this is linguistic absurdity. But then again, we tresspassed the level at which we were having this discussion. So it's becoming more and more blantantly clear to me that there are multiple levels of consciousness. Now, this may sound a little paradoxical. A while ago, I was defying the existence of dichotomy and now I am extending the dichotomy into more like multiplicity. If the origin of universe did not have a dichotomy (or polynomy?) built in it, do the words "everything", "something" and "nothing" really have different meanings?

Why "why"?

Dichotomous minds of humans have separated everything in this universe into two categories. Consciousness is what seperates living beings from inanimate objects. However, when we try to trace back the origin of the universe, we are stuck a singularity (big-bang theory) or nothing (more fashionable super-string theory). So the obvious question which comes to my mind is : at what point in time did the dichotomy emerge? and more importantly : why? In fact, the origin of "why" and for that matter all the "wh" questions date back to the origin of consciousness. And now we have come full circle to ask a question like : Why "why"? An interesting thing to note is : we probably know the answer to the questions like : How "why"?, When "why?", and Where "why"? But then we are not asking these questions at the same level of consciousness. These questions can be easily answered by the story of evolution or alien-breeding or whatever. But my first question Why "why"? still remains unanswered.