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The pursuit of purpose.

Are we alone in the universe? Is there a greater intelligence than ours? Do we have a purpose? Why do we exist? Perhaps the Earth is a thought experiment, only that the computation is being done by the human mind. The search for the meaning of life is unique for each individual; while some of us do not prioritize it, others make a living out of it. But the need to know ‘why’ exists in almost every one of us. In my pursuit for purpose, I have taken different paths and I hope you will be happy to explore them with me. Humans have asked the ‘why’ of their existence for centuries, but they have not agreed upon an answer. Many great minds seem to believe in many different hypotheses. Nihilism says humans have no purpose. Creationists believe that a God created us, but they don’t know why he did that. No holy scripture sets out an ultimate goal for humanity. Religion offers subtle guidelines of how to search for purpose, but for the most of it, religion preaches about the greater good. It l...
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Humanity and Cancer

The following are my crazy theories about cancer. These are not based in fact. These are the result of an overactive imagination. What if the body is a learning algorithm? Think about the principles of machine learning. We train a machine with data, teach it to differentiate between two different kinds of things (binary classification). The machine only knows the data and the training. It chooses A or B depending on what its training says. Similarly, what if our body or its genome is still learning. Think about it. Evolutionary biology says that the genotype mutates and what we observe is the phenotype. Every human is a data point. Humans don’t eat raw meat. The appendix is deemed a vestigial organ. Soon we have more and more humans born without appendices. Now consider this. Humans live longer now, they take medicine and get surgery to extend their lifespan. What if the body has detected our fight to survive? What if cancer cells have mutations that allow them to survive because we tr...
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Emotional Development needs to be a part of the curriculum.

Emotions are the key, they are the most complex and diverse of all the forces in nature. In today's day and age as we try to study consciousness, we attempt to design machines to emulate human thinking and emotion. But, algorithms and chemical reactions are not the same as the human brain. Machines can predict, analyze and ideate. Machines cannot emote in an autonomous manner (yet). Biological consciousness might be responsible for firing certain neurons to make us smile, but the correspondence of the stimulus and the reaction is one yet to be precisely modeled. Animals and humans both display basic emotions of pain, anger and such that are necessary for survival. These emotions are fairly easy to understand and replicate. They are mental responses to physical experiences. But, there are more complex emotions that can be classified as moral emotions that are only seen in certain species, humans being one of them. Spirituality and ethics are the construct of an advanced human mind. ...
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Acceptance

 I am a stranger in these parts you can see it from the way I smile always polite at my best I cannot let my guard down I am easy to detest here you have been here a while have family, have friends I tried to be one of you but I’m busy making ends meet you try to be sweet but I can see through you much like you see through my smile and know I am struggling  but I pretend like I am not and you let me go back to where I’m from where I’m well liked I used to live in their hearts but I am a stranger in these parts you don’t like strangers here  or maybe you don’t like me don’t fit into your pack never wanted to fit in  all I wanted was to get you to smile back
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