Memory Stash

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. ...

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...