Friday, September 23, 2005

Math, Science and others

Music with a male and female voice singing together and for a fraction of a second, total oneness with the voices and a moment of bliss in the listener, trees through which, sun casts its golden coins, shimmering on mud earth ; a blissful moment; waking up in the morning with a theory or a concept flashing with total clarity that was elluding for weeks together causing a blissful state.

Are you losing time, could it be a short term memory loss ? The entire beauty of the moment wiped out in a second.

It is always - till I experience something it does not exist.

Is there anyway a theory like reducto ad absurdum that Kasthuri wrote about help in these situations - where it exists is proved by beginning with an assumption it does not exist.

10 comments:

Vinesh said...

That, my daughter, is heaven - a preacher would say!

I don't know if you should slot this under "Beauty of Music" or "Beauty of Life". For life exists as music in my opinion. What is music to one's ears may be noise to another.

And there are always the best moments, and cacophony at other times!

And in sheer darkness, when eyelids wish to kiss each other, there is bliss!

I had this experience recently when I heard "Thazhuvudhu Nazhuvudhu" from the movie "A Aa", (not the best example, but certainly one of the best in recent times, considering SPB is my favourite)... Listen to the lines, "Oru dharam koodal..." and you'll know what I mean!

Kasthuri said...

I kinda think everything is always present only to be rediscovered. Thoughts emerge from experiences hidden in the form of memories. Thoughts, as soon as they emerge they speak back to the memory that the particular experience does not exist before, only to contradict itself later. Thus, reductio ad absurdum is built in the very fabric of thought. This can be used to explain why sometimes things flash with clarity out of the blue. It is just that the proof through reductio ad absurdum is very small in that case, resulting in a brilliant insight. Anyway, the posts you write are really nice. It makes one think little deep. Probably, it comes out of deep, that's why.

Anonymous said...

levelaa ezhuthareenga...
rendu tharam padichaa than puriyuthu :P

Usha said...

reminded of a nice paragraph from your favorite author Thi Ja in his "amirtham":
Pozhudu vidiyum velayil mahakavigalukkelam agappadaada karpanaigal - vichithira kaatchigal - nam kann mun ezhuginrana. Aazhnda unmaigal, ediraaliyin vaayai pothividumpadi naam puriyum chamatkaaramaana vaadangal - ellavatraiyum ninaithup paarthal bhramai thattugiradu. Aanaal thookam kalaindadum naamadaiyum ematrathukku alave illai. Anda chirpa logangalai meendum kaana kannai moodi moodi paarkirom. Aanaal pona kaatrai pol onrum thirumbave maatenengiradu. Mudaliyaar kanda kanavum thirumbi vara villai."

Jinguchakka said...

Your first para is cool. I'd love to write like that. And what's that reducto absurdum or whatever? like Occam's razor?

Paavai said...

Vinesh - Yet to listen to the thazhuvudu nazhuvudu song.

Kasthuri - Yes, now I see how these concepts exist in every moment

dubukku - enna solrathunu therialayai - unga commentkku

usha - yes, thi jaa talks about these experiences eluding us and making it difficult for us to articulte

jinguchakka - neenga vera- nane ippadan reducto .. vai oru madiri purinjundu irukken - sari sari occam's razor ennadu

Random Access said...

aathaaaaaaaaaaaaa :O

Paavai oda hexadecimal paarvai a ippo thaan paakaren!

Random Access
The search has just begun !!!

Paavai said...

random neenga vera bayangarama pudu pudu varthai ellam solli kuzhapareenga.

Looks I need to look for something like a thesarus for Maths to understand - occam's razor, hexadecimal (i hope these are math related)

Anonymous said...

please take my earlier comments as complements! :)

Paavai said...

thank you thank you thank you - mikka nanri dubukku