Eucledian vector for human nature

“A vector … is a geometric object that has both a magnitude, ..direction and sense, (i.e., orientation along the given direction)” and its represented as

Vector A to B:
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AB

with an arrow on the heads of A and B. Essentially representing what needs to be done to A to get it to move closer to B.

A direct lift off Wikipedia about Euclidean Vectors and we are good to go!

My application of vectors to the human race might seem a bit odd upfront, but it allows me to elucidate the various factors involved in this topic with a well laid out framework.

Now with Vector A to B, let us say A is what we are now and B is what we want to be, in terms of our human nature. We are then presented with a few different variables that dictate how A can reach B. To understand these, we need to know what constitutes human nature.

Human nature is how the majority of human beings of this planet behave with respect to a certain subject in its given context.

You might ask “Why the majority of human beings? Why not the minorities? Don’t they have a say in this?”

My explanation is abstract so bear with me. Our nature or behaviour is largely dictated by what we perceive to be good or evil in our individualistic perceptions (consider the bold text carefully). Hence two individuals might react differently to a given subject and hence the need for the law of averages.

And doing the math (coming from me to you [I assume the general reader of this blog is usually an above average mathematician], this is priceless), averages tend to point to results that lean towards the majority of the samples.

Consider an example: Even today there are people who sacrifice animals to appease gods, there are those who met out harsh capital punishments for seemingly simple crimes and that program ‘Jackass’ may not be agreeable to a majority of the population.

Most of the world refers to them as inhumane. An abhorrence to human nature.

Even though Jackass is kinda funny. Sometimes. Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself.

This opinion is what I like to think dictates what we humans ‘in general’ consider “Human Nature”.

Now back to the vector.

B is easier to compose than A. Because we can always imagine a perfect condition for human nature to be, in the future, as opposed to uncomfortably identifying what it is now.

In the future, lets say, I would like human nature to consist of the following:

Giving more than receiving

Loving more than fighting

Working with each other as opposed to against one another

Visualising life past our trivial differences

Identifying common goals for the betterment of the species

Encouraging the concept of the intellectual over the mighty

Minimalism in design and operation

Removing self-imposed limitations to our thought process.

Valuing quality over quantity and considering value before beauty.

Encouraging forgiveness

Culturing a helping tendency

Forming necessary core values that are not tinted by religion

Unbiased Judging

Encouraging activities over inaction and idleness.

Clarity in thought, communication and action

Moderation and Extremism in their appropriate context without causing harm.

These are all prevalently known, been said before and flogged to death by many debaters. But how often has it permeated past all the glazed eyes of the general populace drunk to the brim on the garbage that the main stream media feeds them?

These are but a few things and the list is but a subset of a bigger picture. But I believe you get the general direction at which I’m pointing.

Now don’t mistake me, I don’t want the next generation to be a sissy, hippy, bunch of mush. But rather I want positive reinforcement in the fields or areas that are wrong with the world today as I perceive them.

Today's materialism has overtaken men, women & children and actively encouraged by the media and peers.

Violence amongst school kids is not unheard of, corruption of governments, vindication of perceived threats from misunderstood communities and blind eyes towards the suffering, are day to day occurrences in our news.

Newspapers and magazines sell more if they publish articles with shock value.

People line up in queues to buy magazines about their favourite celebrities’ lives going down the drain.

The underlying hatred and jealousy that one human holds for another due to the want of money, power and ever higher thrills is so thick that you can smell it.

When faced with such vile depravity in our day to day lives, what can we do to improve this drastic situation?

Many of us live in denial of these facts. We feel that they depress us and prevents our ability to operate at the fullest of our potentials. We turn a blind eye towards burning problems around the world. Our emotions override rationality. Our actions directed by heart strings instead of logic.

We are not two dimensional cartoon characters that have a mental state of happy or sad. We are humans. We strided past multitudes of physical and mental barriers to be where we are today.

We analyse, we overcome. None of the other sentient creatures could. We are complex and strong enough to handle these truths and handle them we must.

Where are the thinkers of today you ask? They are drowned out by the Justin Timberlakes and Pussy cat dolls of today. Hidden by clouds of greed and pre-conceived notions about rational and radical thought.

The answer to our predicatment, i believe, is in ‘Tabula Rasa’. Your children are the Tabula Rasa. Read about it. Think about it. Implement it, when its your turn. We may yet beat our baser instincts and ascend.

I have pointed to a possible 'B' we can end up with, but the 'A' is all yours to identify. Now its time for you to apply the arrow and move resolutelty towards your own B.

Abstract pursuits

There was a drought at the fountain of youth.

But I say to thee 'NAY !!!'

Here are some topics I want to write about:

The Unbridled Glory of Life

Euclidean Vector for the human nature

An essay on the God syndrome and why I am hir believer

The vanity of religion

Butchering complacence

Ultimate weapon

A Sip of eternity

Chisel of the Quadriplegic

Harnessing Helios and Sol Invictus

The Nautilus punch

My peace with Mathematica

After digressing heavily into T.R territory (it was fun while it lasted), I believe it is time to put this train back on track.

So without prattling on,

I write this piece, after a renewed interest in Mathematics has gripped me over the past month or so.

The spark came from an urge to face my arthimophobia. Yes. Mathematics was my very own personal immovable object that became too tall a hurdle subsequently. (Marilyn Manson’s Personal Jesus is for some reason running in the back of my mind at the moment).

I used to go pale and freeze up during my term and semester exams. Sometimes, after having practiced this bloody science for up to 5 hours in a stretch. It just blotted out: the sun, all the joy in my life, my happy place etcetera and blanked my mind out at the most inopportune of times.

I have failed maths in the past and in turn maths had failed me many more times than I prefer to recall, though mathematics wasn’t always the demon that stands before me today.

I used to love the thrill of getting the numbers right.

It was an adventure which always had a reward at the end of the journey or at the end of the book (depending on your level of perseverance). An apple from the mysterious tree of knowledge, if you will. If the problem didn’t have an answer, they wouldn’t put it in an educational book right?

All was well and good until sometime in my past, the theory became too abstract for me to visualise. My good readers, as many of you might already realise, if we can’t visualise a concept; if it isn’t accessible enough to us, we misunderstand it.

Worse yet, as it was in my case, we fear it.

All the definitions, the axioms and theorems turned into fuzzy little balls of strung up symbology that frankly made me giddy.

Yes I was dumb in this department, but more than anything, it was the visualizing part that got the best of me.

You see - Physics, Chemistry and Biology have nothing on Maths when it comes to complexity in theory. For crying out loud, those branches of science had pictures that I could associate with (Yes, even chemistry with its formulae represented as diagrams).

But not math. No, sir, the elitists that came up with this misunderstood behemoth will not make it appeal to the masses back then. Or at the very least they didn’t try reaching out to me.

The average math genius I came across would come up with the answer just as the teacher would finish announcing the problem. He / She felt no need to explain their rather rude intrusions to the teacher’s discourse. Of course not, they were quite high from basically flashing the middle finger to the rest of us masses sitting in the same room.

Now having grown up into a pesky young man with enough balls to go face to face with any elitist jerk, I actually quite politely approached some of the self proclaimed math prodigies in my social circle.

It was time to take the devil by its horns and here are some of the results of my soliciting. Mind you I was being deadly serious with my questions:

Q from Me: Give me an example in real life of applying integration and/or differentiation to solve some of our daily problems?

Answer from a certain female who topped her class back in Uni : Err, show me a problem from the text book and I’ll solve it for you.

Discouraging.

Q from Me: Can you put ‘differential equation’ in a sentence for me?

A from a distant friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_equation

Well, it was at least an effort to point me in the right direction.

Q from Me: Why pure mathematics?

A from an enlightened soul, obviously:

“Consider a pile of garbage in the back of your closet that the previous tenants probably left behind in your current rental property. Now while rummaging through it, you find a number locked box with only two number tumblers to play with (Note to self: He was obviously a condescending SoB).

It would get you excited enough to try all the combinations until you found that stash of porn / weed / 100$ bills etc hiding behind the locked box. It is a similar feeling we get from solving math problems hoping it will lead to something beautiful, something thrilling or something that would make you bloody rich.”

Wow, good point.

So I started from where I was pointed to. Wikipedia. In particular from this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics

I have begun at the very beginning. Relearning numbers. Getting my (now relatively advanced) mind around some of the founding concepts of maths and I must say it was far far more interesting than proof-reading this very boring blogpost of mine.

Now, I just might understand Quantum physics, Chaos and String theories after all.

As I age, I find it easier to revisit some of my past, not only to relive it but to confront it once more from a higher plane of understanding.

TL : DR version:

Face your fears, read about Maths.