The amount of information in the world is amazing.... you pick up a newspaper (or the news-site if u so please) and there will be something which might just tease your brain cells... may be some place is mentioned which you have heard about have an idea where it is but not sure what its claim to fame is... you go and search for this place ( i was searching for Macau)... then while reading about this place you come across something else... may be something you know quite a lot about but then again you think of a particular why ( for me it was the sentence " The Roman Catholic church sent some of its greatest missionaries to continue the work of St Francis Xavier, (who died nearby after making many converts in Japan)" and i wondered why are Christians so much into converting everyone to their faith... or is it true for all religions). Then you search for that topic or think after i finish reading this i will read that... so on and so forth you keep on jumping from one topic to another; sometimes very very feebly linked to one another. and you ask yourself do i know anything at all? considering the amount of information in the world.. OK leave the world just Internet may be... the amount i know is zilch... whereas on the other hand if i don't compare it with the total information i do know quite a lot... for starters i know what 2+2 is; i know who wrote "Harry Potter(1 to 7)"; i know how to spell "friend"... i know the origin of the phrase "Dry Run" (so what if i came to know about it only yesterday!) and this is not even a significant percentage of all i know...
If some day i am able to know even 1% of the things to know in this world wouldn't it be great?? i would practically be a know all!!! just by knowing 1 % of the things....
On second thoughts may be it wouldn't be that great after all.... may be i would be so clustered with Information.... so interested in just gathering facts that i will forget why in the first place i gathered that fact... like for example i know what 2 + 2 is because it helps me when i buy stuff at the local super market... i know who wrote Harry Potter may be because i read all of those books and it would help me if i need to search for it in a library... i don't know why i know how to spell friend... even if i spelled it freind it wouldn't matter.. would it...
moral of the story i already know more than i need to know... so why bother ;-)
All said and done its still fun to read arbit stuff in office when there's is zero pending work!!
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I think Human brain irrespective of any human kind.......works perfectly to maintain a perfect level for knowledge......no less no more....from the point we opened our eyes.....now wondering why or how this is possible....as we were born....and we opened our eyes.....we must have seen the doc the nurse....or maids......which we don't even remember now....and then must have seen or heard some things...people must have visited and seen us and said....you have a beautiful daughter or son....atleast i dont remember who said to me....must be atleast one...but not imp now...well what was the first word we said....when we said....hmmm don't remember....and things go on like that....i dont even remember the names of all my classmates in 10th....well as a matter of fact do you remember anything from what 1st year chemistry teacher Satnam singh taught us....well just remembered his name not what he taught me.....hahahahahha....so at any given moment our knowledge remains the same......sounds surprising...but true....i wonder why didnt become a reseacher.......i believe my theory for brain says it all......
this makes me wonder... now you know that you were a kid once and ppl must have said things u dont remember so u know u dont know that... but there might be so much sound around us... supersonic or whatever they call it that we cant understand it at all... may be not even sound may be another kind of knowledge... like earth being just the test environment for something... may be even the development server.... woah!!! nice :-))
coming back to reality and to what u said... ofcourse everything works in conjunction with everything else.... as in u say "human brain... perfect level" i say it has to because the brain has to work in conjunction with us,.. if it didnt i would be writing this from an institute for the"mentally challenged".... take a car for instance every nut is as tight as it should be... otherwise your car starts rattling or something.....
as to satnam Singh... i do remember one of his labs... where we got bad scolding for laughing from the lab ass... who then said "you are laughing because i am poor" and it was so pathetic that we laughed even louder and he thought we were making fun of him!!!
now that is something I don't know.. "zero pending work" ..!! ;)
Someone seems to have forgotten the ever so glorious DC days!
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