Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Riddle of the day
Are some people born with the power to write? Is it a gift? Or something nurtured through years of study and practice? Is the act of writing a plain reflection of thoughts and imagination on recordable media? Are individuals who are inclined to write the ones that spend more time thinking? Can you write and still be a moron? Can you be unable to write and still be smart? If one can speak eloquently and debate well, will that person be a prolific writer? Why is it that the most prolific writers are eloquent speakers too? What side of their brain is stronger? How does writing compare to the creation of music? Isn’t music just another form of writing? That instead of words and letters we just use notes and keys? Is good punctuation the only common denominator between literature and music? Why can’t everyone write novels? Doesn’t everyone have a story to tell? Isn’t everyone’s story different? Do we imagine things or contemplate thoughts every waking moment? Is relaxation the switching off of our brain? Does music help us switch off our thoughts? Is that why it helps us relax? Do we stop thinking when we are engrossed in absorbing -- be it a book, a movie or a song? Can some of us only relax when we are sleeping or taking part in a vigorous physical activity like sex? Can some people switch off their brains more easily than others? Are there brains that get more rest than others? Can you think profoundly and yet be shallow? What makes one shallow? Is it the formation of opinions with lesser information? Or is it the narrower focusing of one's thoughts? If I feel my brain is starving does that make me an idiot? Why do I feel better when I feed my brain? Are there people who feel worse when they feed their brains? Is there a limit to how much a brain can absorb? Can that someday be expressed in gigabytes? Would this vary depending on individuals? Do people with larger skulls have more brains? Are they able to think more thoughts and store more information? Why is the word "thick" associated with stupidity when a thicker brain is likely to contain more neurons? If the brain is a neural network, wouldn’t the one with more neurons be capable of storing more information? Is it then a problem of retrieval and not one of storage? Will our brains ever interface with digital media? Will some humans opt for it while others denounce the idea? Why would some see it as progress and others see it as tampering with God’s creation? Has the evolution of the human brain come to a standstill? Is collective thought destroying creativity? Are we too connected? Are we preventing the next technological leap by huddling ourselves into organizations, teams and groups and constantly having to exchange mundane information? Where will we go next if we don’t have folks to ponder? Is there room left for daydreaming? Was Isaac Newton daydreaming most of the time? What about Einstein? What about Van Gogh? Why is there so little patronage of creation and thinking? Will not the kings and queens of the day support the likes of Da Vinci to frolic? What are the aristocrats born into wealth doing? Why aren’t they wandering like Tagore, feeling, thinking, and absorbing the world? Why aren’t we getting masters anymore and instead are being ruled by the mediocre? Is it any surprise? Is this how evolution ends? That we learn to rule ourselves to our doom? Or could it be that the next stage of human evolution is causing the brain to think, react and absorb differently? Could it be that the status quo is triggering the next human evolution? Is it possible that such changes are popping up as little anomalies across the world? Are we failing to see through these anomalies and instead are trying to correct them using our conventional means? Will we have mass panic and hysteria when the anomalies occur in larger numbers? What lengths will we go to preserve the status quo?
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