Quo Vadis

The mind is an organ of inexplicable complexities. It's known to work about a billion times faster at parallel computing than the fastest computing systems at home. And guess what? The mind, doesn't even have a basic parallel computing capability, it's just a super awhsum serial computer as per current understanding.

But humans have some pretty fast ones, called super computers, running at a whopping 16.32 petaflops, or 16 thousand trillion calculations per second!(at the time of writing this.)

Now allow me to clue you in. 1 petaflop is 1 quadrillion(three zeros after trillion, 10^15) floating point operations per SECOND. 1 floating point operation indicates how many mathematical operations, involving decimal fractions, the computer (or microprocessor) can handle.

Some world renowned experts claim the brains power is limitless and cannot be calculated. But the reality remains that eventually, it's just a matter of time before we get there. If and when we do, do you think we'll be able to just plug in that alternative reality that the machines could create? If we did, could we unwind into a plugged in, but virtually alternate reality where we could have our own world with customized reality? That would bring in the much needed faux pas in our imagined universe. Its like the Matrix revisited, except, this one would probably be the one we want.

Some basic research on the internet gave the following information about the human brain.
http://www.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/howfast.html

"About the raw speed of a brain in terms of cycles per second. A human being has about 100 billion brain cells. Although different neurons fire at different speeds, as a rough estimate it is reasonable to estimate that a neuron can fire about once every 5 milliseconds, or about 200 times a second. The number of cells each neuron is connected to also varies, but as a rough estimate it is reasonable to say that each neuron connects to 1000 other neurons- so every time a neuron fires, about 1000 other neurons get information about that firing. If we multiply all this out we get 100 billion neurons X 200 firings per second X 1000 connections per firing = 20 million billion calculations per second. This estimate might easily be off by an order of magnitude- that is, it might be 10 times too high or low."

"The second question was about the storage capacity of the brain. Some people have estimated that the storage capacity of the human brain is functionally infinite- that is, we can essentially always find room to store more information if we want to, so no practical limit exists."

All of this and further speculation eventually brings to forth the question, if this brain thing is doing this and that, storing and processing, what or who exactly is it doing it for? Is it for a purpose in itself or is it a tool for something which is beyond our understanding and comprehension as yet? If it is a purpose in itself, then why do we continuously keep looking for a purpose to everything? Why should everything have a reason? Then again, maybe we are just bits and characters in someones game and this whole world is just a video game where we are simply supposed to live without having to know what is not needed to be known. If so, why this ability in the first place to understand things around us? We might as well just have been animals!

Since we are not, I am just presuming there's something out there or else this all seems like a cruel joke.

Presumptions

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question. -Niels Bohr

We lead a life of preconceived notions where there is absolutely nothing we can ingest using our five senses which can be understood for what it truly is and not because we are conditioned to do so. It is sometimes said by neuroscientists that colours are imagined by our mind because evolution made it inevitable. If there were no colours, we the then primitive sapiens would have probably not survived.

It's also said, that the image we actually see is reversed for a fact and the mind turns it upside down again just so we remain sane. Now imagine if we were to see things as they were actually presented without the mental tricks, the world would turn downside up with no racial biases! It'd just be the lighter or darker side of grey with gravity pushing us up. The sun would go down every morning and rise at night.

Surely, there would be skeptics who'd claim we'll just name everything opposite. But holding that chain of thought, why not implement the same principle as a cure for folks afflicted with say dementia or depression? You could say sunsets were the way to go! The returning tides of the ocean are the best moments of life where light fades away to give way to darkness., which would obviously be the way to go!

Some peace at last. Just to be discarded as soon as your reality kicks in.

Why wake up?

God, well played!

On the crossroads of comprehension, lay the essence of confusion. Since you are already guiding from above, figuratively, any which road I choose, should ideally be predestined under your preordained manner of existence.

The path to understand your order of merit, is obviously beyond the comprehension of mere mortals who exist, by very nature, because of your generous whim. So how dare they even mention the rules of governance by which you operate? The nerve of these insolent superstitious dare devil's!

You tell them, you tell them it's a winner, you give them hope; and to what use? They go on to raise awareness.. they talk of free will! They kill the very creation you so beautifully crafted, the mind. The single most important organ differentiating mere beings from the ones you so gloriously articulated into killers.

Over all, there is nothing but a sense of stunning which prevails over the beauty of the marvelous colours you made in nature, the brilliant chain of command based on hunger versus the ignorance of the very intelligence you so made to dominate.

Salut!

High, Time.

Paused, spent,
Buzzing at stuck,
Make it, no reserve,
Play, start.

Blocks, writers, readers,
Dooms - nights and days,
Wait, for the prophecy runs,
Game, for you didn't play.

Happy, sometimes,
For reasons, for seasons,
Perfection., far away,
Needless, as ever.

Assure, bring it,
Pride, ring it,
Fly, fell,
Prey, hunger.

Idea, used,
Comprise, you,
Bad, mistake,
Great, wish.

Belief, question,
Fingernail, edge,
Sit, nothing,
Think, do.

Single, never,
All, right now,
Make, already,
High, time.