[dhallsulabh]

things i think about....read it and let me know but a request that if you start reading it, read it in one go...

Moore’s law states that we will be making microprocessors twice as powerful as now in two years time. The microprocessors made in 1997 cannot be utilized to their full potential. Yet, more powerful microprocessors are being built day by day. Somehow, it makes me think about the human brain. The maximum usage of the brain was by Einstein and he too used just about 10% of the full capability. Now could it be that there was a race ( I won’t call them humans) of say, “gods”, somebody, who created us. In any experiment, there are initial stages. The theory of evolution could be easily attributed to different stages of an experiment; an experiment that was conducted by somebody as logical as us.
Are we the final result/product? Certainly not. The “gods” too had limited knowledge (just like us) about how to use such an amazing microprocessor that they had built, known to us as the brain. Or probably, they could not complete their experiments and thus, we are what we are i.e. deficient. Look at what we are doing these days. The robots in which we are installing the artificial intelligence that we have built are physically more stable or powerful, as compared to us. If there was a phenomenon, say, the hole in ozone layer gets wider, we will not be able to handle it physically. On the other hand, robots that we build would actually survive. They can probably evolve or we may assist them in evolving to the degree that they are able to fend for themselves, for example, able to find and produce energy, able to reproduce ( not the conventional way but they might build children), etc. Also, look at what we are made of. The religious texts define us as not more than a combination of five basic elements which are very freely available. Also, there is such a delicate balance with which we have been built that it seems that somebody intentionally organized it that way.
Let’s discuss the concept of “faith” in “gods” and where it came from. The Hindu religion is the oldest in the world and it worships animals or creatures which are half-human half-animals. This is what the coins of those times depict too. Failed experiments probably, but they were there when we came into existence and so the concept of seniority held. Or, probably, the animals were the superior race. Let’s assume that the superior race was that of cows. The first thing that crops to mind is that if they are superior, then why are they being treated as animals and why don’t they come up and teach us something? The reasons could be many. One could be that they are just too lazy to try really hard to communicate with us just as we take the concept of animals talking to be humorous. The problem is just that we are not able to get through. They have left all civilization and industrialization that they had and reverted back to the way their ancestors lived for they have realized that such a stance would ultimately lead to their demise. So, instead of focusing on technological advancements, exactly as we have been doing, they chose to advance philosophically and this is the result. They want us, their creations to realize for themselves what they have realized.
To come to the already existing the theory of evolution by Darwin, I find a flaw in the most basic of assumptions that he made – “survival of the fittest”. Had that been true, there would have been just one race alive. But some may argue that we are in the midst of the evolutionary process. What I don’t understand is that whether we are getting smarter? Yes, we are improving upon what people built before us but that could be just the result of the growing numbers i.e. the probability of somebody smarter being born increases with the number of people being born.
Another flaw in the theory of evolution as I see it is the conundrum about cockroaches and dinosaurs. Both were present at the time the dinosaurs became extinct. Now, it is to the reader’s prerogative to judge whom it finds fitter: the cockroach or the dinosaur.
Thinking of the future, assume a time when the human beings have become extinct, and the robots are alive, then they might find pieces of metal, bent in one way or the other, or wires, they might assume that to be their evolution and come up with a theory of their own.
To explain the bone structures as large as that of dinosaurs, let me quote something from the movie “Frankenstein”. The monster in the movie is built a monster so that the experiments were easier and the mistakes were easier to spot on a large frame. Come to think of it, the computers that we initially built were huge and each computer took rooms to fit in. Thus, dinosaurs could be the initial experiments. But they had to be eliminated just as the monster in “Frankenstein” as they were becoming a threat to the “gods” themselves. The dinosaurs could have been weapons of mass destruction too, something like the missiles we are making with the exception that they were intelligent. To make the missiles more effective, intelligence of some sort can be duplicated and fit in them. Now in a process to eliminate the danger that has arisen, we eliminate the missiles but in doing so kill ourselves too leaving behind robots, the only sign of intelligence.


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Sulabh