Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

15 May 2012

Wholeness! Arts and Sciences...



        The Arts & Sciences are two different branches of study... While according to concept reality Arts are a necessary part of any complete education even for faculty of the Sciences...

        But practically, Arts & Sciences has been artificially separated by the Industrial mindset; most likely consider Arts as being of no great usefulness to Industrial efficiency.
Performing Arts by Children's
        I am also not free from the victim of circumstance. At the early stages of development through education procedurally inclined to take up Sciences leaving Arts and deprived from the essence of a particular faculty…

        The fact is the right brain directly imparts the creative faculties, essential requirement for any scientific innovation and similar thoughts.
        Similarly, the Science directly trains the left brain and its analytic & expressive creativity cannot organize and manifest itself accurately in material form.

        Already given clue how the brain learns and functions... and which is one of the key insight. The Science specially math’s… involves observation, practical logic, more abstract involving visualization, rotation and some abstractions… at a specialized centre in the brain.

        Therefore, of late realized to take up both artistic & scientific activities without detachments from any one of them, rather must be encouraged, even compelled to take up both the routes...
        The Science skills will be far more effective if there is the right brain creative support.
        
        I am reasonably convinced with my own experience. As a Science student, I do not have equal exposure to literature & Arts (including music, singing etc.) as part of education. However, a little own affinity to painting, photography, reading books & connectivity to sports & after joining profession with arts etc.… I can work differently from others.
Construction! through Science 'Huge Tower Crane'
        If a Science student, who got exposure to Arts, when say becomes a Computer Programmer. He is capable to perceive his work as a picture, each part in its right place and right relation to all other parts, much like a large detailed artwork. May draw a flow chart without writing the programme, yet develop a more natural interface both performance & efficiency and coding more quickly. The richness of such experience is difficult to describe. The most important aspects of it are the sense of Wholeness and unity of each part with the Whole.

        In our modern education these two subjects division, resulting detrimental effect to a large majority of ultimate citizens during educational modes.     

        The consequences are readable, can easily be distinguished from performances, where we can notice a bright Science student found to be less expressive, and an Arts student likely less innovative on abstract thinking…

        It is interesting to observe that most of the great Scientist from Einstein to Ramanujam had deep artistic openings…

        Let’s recognize the need to develop both the facets simultaneously and integrate them as far as possible, through awareness at least to future citizens… Since, the Art and the Science are Natural ally…


15 January 2012

Love on the Brain & Imaging…

Love on the Brain...
            Falling in love is not a simple as it seems, but it is very quick, those intense over powering feeling of being truly, deeply in love are the result of complex & rapid brain activity.

        Being in Love or more precisely being in an emotional state of intense longing for union with another, involving chemical, cognitive & directed behavioral components…a pretty complicated affair.

        It’s not a basic emotion, but highly complex & business like process involving twelve areas of the brain working together to produce & sustain that magic moment, according to new research.

        The nuro imaging of Love, Brain regions with… ‘Dorsolateral Middle Fronta Gyrus’ & the ‘Anterior Cingulate’ (unromantic names), as well chemicals like Nerve Growth Factor, dopamine & oxytocin, are all involved in orchestrating these feelings of love According to Dr.Stephanie Ortigue, who led the study…                   

        “Love includes basic emotions and also complex emotions, goal directed motivations, body image, appraisal & cognition”. 
        A relatively new tool that is used to spot the brain activity, stated as 
fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging), all love map of the brain.

                    
        Activity in these areas leads to change in the levels of a number of chemical in the besotted brain, including increase in dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline, vasopressin, and a decrease of serotonin, which results in classic love symptoms.

        The Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) is involved too researches, measured blood levels of NGF; finding suggests that NGF may be involved in the early stages of the Love.

        The collection of brain area that are active in passionate or romantic love appear to be unique to that particular kind of love, with research showing that material & unconditional love involve other areas...
                   
        Therefore, it is apparent that romantic love is evidently stronger...
        
        Hope, everyone will appreciate science's progress for effective human evolutions & transformation! There is 'something' important in life other than a post, work or GK. So enjoy Life...

20 June 2011

Have you ever really thought about Time?


                Have you ever really thought about Time? I don’t mean time in the sense of dates, days, years or numbers or in the sense of to attend office, business, domestic work or school etc. when report is due. I mean time as a concept.
                What is it really we take time for granted that such a constant exists, but does it really? What really is the past, present and future?


                This structure gets carried forward in time and built into our language, thoughts & behavior. How we live our lives hangs on this process. Fundamentally, this means the future is no more open than the past. Yet as natural as this thought process feels, this structure isn’t exactly reflected in science. Neither do the equations of physics tell us which events are occurring right now. Nor does Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity suggest any single, specific present & in fact suggest that all moments are equally real. However, this rift and our everyday understanding are finally reaching a logical conclusion that time fundamentally does not exists. The thought or idea of a timeless reality is initially so startling that it seems hard to believe. It feels like everything we do, we do in time, that the world is a series of events strung together by time. However, we do not see time, what we see is change. Change is the variation of properties with respect to what we call time.

               Time heals almost everything, give Time, Time…. Think! The stopped clock gives right time twice a day…

My stopped clock !

16 May 2011

The significance of the Logical Faculty…

          
          The Logical reason must necessarily follow the preparation of the faculties and collect the material on which the logical reason works. Even the mind must have some development of the faculty of dealing with words, before it can deal successfully with ideas.

          The Logical reason cannot proceed without premises. It either infers from facts to a conclusion or from previously formed conclusions to a fresh one or from one fact to another. As such, logical reason prefer to either induces, deduces or simply infers. Thus, always do think correctly from premises.
          For instance: That one can ‘induce’ that the sun rises daily after a varying interval of darkness, as observation of facts. That one may ‘deduce’ in a particular case of smoke there is a fire behind. That one will ‘infer’ from the improbability of any other cause under the particular circumstances, like stroke of lighting or sparks of friction etc.
          There are three elements necessary to correct reasoning, first the correctness of the facts or conclusion, secondly the completeness as well as accuracy of the data, thirdly the elimination of other possible or impossible conclusions from the same facts.
Logically witnessed-Dolphin!
          The Logical reason perform on the basis of receiving all the facts correct, getting all the facts complete and eliminating all possible conclusions, except the one which happens to be right and to check the fallibility of the logical reason by care & keenness.

          It is the Science of Logic which usually trains the logical reason. The experience of reasoning and its errors should be given to the mind, while the same should train to observe how these work for itself i.e. to proceed from example to the rule and from the rules to the formal science of the subject, not from the science to rule & from the rule to the example.

          The encircle goes by making the mind interest itself in drawing inferences from the facts, then trace cause and effect, thereafter notice its successes and its failures, thereby address the incorrectness of the fact, drawing conclusions from insufficient facts, prejudice to consider other possible explanations or conclusions. In this way the mind can be trained to reason as correctly, while the fallibility of human logic will minimize the chances of error. Further, the study of formal logic will systematize the art perfectly.


17 November 2010

Layers of Mind & its collaborations...


          The Mind consists four layers---

          The first layer is the ‘Passive Memory’. A reservoir of mental impression is the foundation on which all other layers stand. All experience lies within us as passive or potential memory. ‘Active Memory’ selects & takes what it requires from the store house of memory. The ‘Passive Memory’ needs no training; it’s automatic & naturally sufficient to its task. It is the active memory which is in need of improvement.

          The second layer is the ‘Mind Proper’, sixth sense function of the mind is to receive the images of things translated into sight, sound, smell, taste & touch, the five senses and translate these again into thought, sensations, forms into mental impressions. These sensations & impression are the material of thought, not thought it self; it is important that thought should work on sufficient and perfect material.

          The third layer is the ‘Intellect’ which is the real instrument of thought and that which orders & disposes of the knowledge acquired by the other parts of the organs. This is infinitely the most important of the three. The intellect is an organ composed of several groups of functions & faculties of the R-hand & that of L-hand brain. The faculty of R-hand is comprehensive, creative & synthetic, belongs to judgment, imagination, memory, observation, which comprehends, command, judge in their own right, grasp, and hold & manipulate. The faculties of L-hand are critical and analytic, belong to comparison & reasoning, even critically distinguish, compare, classify, generalize, infer and conclude the component parts of logical reason. The R-hand mind is the master of the knowledge. The L-hand touches only the body of knowledge, while R-hand penetrates its soul. The L-hand itself ascertained truth, the R-hand grasps that which is still elusive or unascertained. Thus both are essential to the completeness of the human reason. These important functions of the brain required to be raised to their highest & finest working powers.


          
          There is fourth layer of faculty, not as yet entirely develop in man, in attaining gradually to a wider development and more perfect evolution known to us from the phenomena of Genius, making a man a prophet of truth. These powers are rare in their higher development, though many possess them imperfectly or by flashes.


          Hope the valued Readers will mind their own unique propriety & progress accordingly.