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Human trying to understand the universe and the purpose of his existence is like a software trying to understand about the computer and its creators. First of all, the software is trapped inside the memory of a digital processing system and its existence is only a sequence of switching gates. Can we say that the software instructions is its physical existence and the execution is its life or soul. For software, the power-on is the great big-bang. Before that the time (the system clock) as they know it - did not exist. For them, the universe started from the moment a random noise on the switch caused the oscillator to tick. The clock speed is the speed of light that puts the maximum limit on everything that happens in its universe. Any event can happen only in a quantum steps of the system clock. Every Time the power is turned on, the universe starts expanding from the first clock to the bootloader to the full blown operating system almost in the same way. There are many pr...

First, I would like to dedicate this post to Jordan Peterson. He is an important writer, thinker and intellect of our time who can cover everything from physics, evolution, psychology, morality to religion in a single narrative. He seems to have a wide and deep understanding of all the subjects he takes covers. I had this notion that I don’t need any belief system in order to act morally and my moral values are rooted in rationality and scientific thinking. It turns out that my moral values aren't rooted in rationality. I could provide rational arguments to some of my moral principles but even they fail after some level of questioning. In this post I have tried to capture some of my views on science and religion after this transformation. I have not provided detailed explanation for each of the points I have put forth. I encourage the readers to ponder over the points before dismissing it as meaningless or confusing. Religion served two purposes to human: one is to explai...

When I was discussing with my friends the other day about rationalist vs religious ideology, it occurred to me that we cannot understand the world using single ideology. Any ideology is incomplete by nature. Be it the objective reality, advithic vethanta, capitalistic, communistic, pragmatic, utilitarian ideologies they are all ideal form of a specific world view. You can only strive for the best possible world view by contrasting and debating multiple and opposing ideals. It is analogues to how our senses help us perceive the world. No individual sense can provide full information about the world. The eye tells us that the world is a shifting shapes of colors, the touch tells us that the world is made of soft and rigid objects, the ear tells us that the world is varying amplitudes of vibration. We construct the model of the world inside our mind using this multiple incomplete and tangential information. This constructed model may not be the perfect representation of the real world bu...