Curious Idiot

Assume that a man sees girl 1 on day 1. Let it generate 100 pleasure molecules in amygdala(emotional part of the brain). We do not have exact measuring instruments in brain to register the number 100. An approximate image and descriptions of the girl will be stored in, say, Neuron Group 1(NG1). On day 2, he sees girl 2. Let it generate 90 pleasure molecules in amygdala. Now the man tries to compare girl 2 with girl 1. We have NG1 which projects the approximate image of girl 1. Amygdala may generate 80 molecules for the approximate images of girl 1. And we have Neuron Group 2(NG2) which compares the approximate image of girl 1 and the now present image of girl 2. ( Actually NG2 compares the signals generated by Amygdala for approximate images of girl 1 and the now present images of girl 2) Though, in reality, girl 1 looks more prettier than girl2 for the man, the fact that he could only use the approximate images of girl1 screws up the results of the comp...

When I was in my final year B.E , I told my friends Sarangan and Chandrasekhar that a living thing is just a collection of different types of molecules mostly made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen. Nothing more, Nothing less. As expected they did not like the idea. I did not have anybody to discuss about this. I could not find any book talking about this idea. I put the idea to dormancy. Seven years later, when I read "Consciousness Explained" , Daniel Dennett had written this - "Only a theory that explained living things in terms of non-living things could explain life at all." I got a lead from this for further continuing on my idea. I just wanted to see if there is any magic in living things compared to non-living things. I could only find characteristics like reproduction, homeostasis, metabolism etc which can all be explained to a greater extent today by using science. We also now have scientists who are trying to create ...

My lifetime would not be sufficient to understand and appreciate this. For more details - click here http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080224.html

Go Here for a closer look : http://crnano.typepad.com/photos/crn/you_are_right_here_2.jpg The tiny blue dot seen in the picture is none other than our own earth, seen from Saturn. Can't express the feelings of seeing this. :-)