Sunday, March 6, 2011

Science and Philosophy - 10

After reading the comment from Shyam I felt the need to reiterate what I felt GOD is.

"All this existence is just a variegated manifestation of Brahma or Nature. 
Thus Brahma or rather nature is not a deity, it is not a god, and it is nothing supernatural. Brahma is all that we are, and the abstract cause of all that is, it is a concept which has to be understood, realized and felt, not just to be worshipped".
And if I say this there will not be much suspense or excitement left, but the path you traverse to understand this has got your life in it with all its twists,turns and excitement and ultimately the external world and internal world's interactions like incidents, happenings and their understanding, assimilating using abstract thing mind and its offshoot thought which result in remembrances.
This theory is not new and it is an established platform and over ages it is spelt out again and again - only thing is, it needs to be understood in the right perspective because misinterpretation will lead you some where else and there are more people who misunderstand this.
Moreover to get to the stage of ultimate happiness it needs consistent practice both physically and mentally so that our body will be able to carry it. And it is very easy to get into vices which give temporary pleasure and result in long term unhappiness.


Before I say something on pain let us just discuss and think what initiates change and why it is changing.
It is change that started this universe and it has been initiated long back and it is continuing and change is the quality of nature and it never stops. This needs to be understood first.


Yes it is pain which provokes you to change your course of action till you find your comfort zone and happiness- If you are happy or satisfied with the existing scenario you never want to change and change from your satisfied atmosphere gives you pain.


And now what is pain??
Pain in broad sense and simple terms is suffering.
Before I define pain further let me categorize pain into physical pain and mental pain and further both are interlinked even though defined separately.
The interlink is because physical pain of the body is understood with your brain and mental pain which is generated in your brain results in physical imbalance.


Mental Pain is basically an unpleasant emotional experience based on your life's definition and your mental understanding -where as a Physical pain is a potential tissue damage.


Can nature's pain produce a superior and better thing  - Whether it is superior or inferior there is no basis to define except your own understanding of what you feel is normal and whatever it may be, change is inevitable and everything is contemporary. In my earlier replies I said "human is most superior being nature has evolved till date" in the sense of the capabilities when compared to the existing species.
Yes there is difference in levels of taking pain by individual physically and mentally.
For example infliction with blade may cause pain to a normal human but it may give happiness to a masochist who is  in different mental category than the normal human.
And when your senses don't work properly you may not even understand there is a painful situation.
And it is again nature which produced various planets in the same galaxy with different colors, shapes, gravitational fields and orbits.


When I said science advancement leads to god - I mean it is quest by human to know about himself and his external surroundings in a better way so that he understands the nature and feels immense happiness and pleasantness with all its varieties and in all its changes.


There will be no regrets for whatever the nature gives us. You will be happy to accept it.
That doesn't categorically mean don't change yourself - When nature itself is changing continually you need to adapt to the changes.


Objective of the nature - This is what everybody is trying to find out and unable to find out till now.
May be the question will be put in a different way like  - Any predetermined control is there?
If control is there, then definitely objective will be there.
And human is using science or refinement in thought as a tool to get precise definitions of everything in this nature for a better understanding of it.


And the goal of better understanding is complacency and ultimately happiness.
What I felt when starting this science and philosophy post is to bridge the gap between what we are doing to what we need.


Take this Pain for example
It can be expressed in scientific terms like this - 
"From the site of injury the spinal cord fibers will carry signals to the thalamus and from thalamus it spreads to the insular cortex".
Pain is part of body's defense system producing a reflexive retraction from the painful stimulus and tendencies to protect the affected body part while it heals and avoid harmful situation in the future.


This scientific understanding helps us to identify which parts of our body get activated when you feel it is pain and if further research can help us that by affecting these parts if pain can be subsided only to give human a comfort in case of physical pain.


And even better understanding of universe and human body will define a way and process that ensures happiness in a scientific way.


Yes there are instruments to measure physical pain  - There are Dolorimeter also known as Sonic Palpometer, Algorimeter and even pain scales are there and the units given by some scientists is "dols".


Everybody can devise his own scale of mental pain.


And finally let me tell you the whole thing above was written by "analytical me" and the "emotional me" accepts what you say and says "yes the tears are priceless and life starts with pain". Mother takes pain to give birth and the pain she takes with love and gives out love which is the start of anybody's universe and there is no measure to it and the same can be correlated to the universe.

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