Entropy of the human mind
I have always believed that the potential of the human mind is vast and remains very much under-utilized. I find it interesting (and enjoyable? :) ) when I can draw analogies of such thoughts to science.
Analaogy 1
When we learnt about drift velocity in "Electricity, Magnetism and Optics", this is the analogy I drew:
First, let me explain the concept. In a wire, the electrons move at very high speeds in all directions - they move at a high speed randomly. This type of random movement is useless to us. We want them to flow in 1 direction in a controlled manner to make use of it, as current. When we apply a potential difference across 2 ends in a circuit, we induce a magnetic field in 1 direction, this causes the electrons to slowly move in 1 direction. The random movement is still present, but overall the electrons are starting to move in 1 direction - the velocity with which they move is called the drift velocity. This velocity is much much slower.
The analogy I drew was, the human mind is like electrons in the wire. There is a lot of chaos present. But when we think of something and "will" to do it. We cause the mind to move in that direction with some drift velocity. If we had very good control of our mind - to be able to control all the electrons, if the speed of random motion was used towards achieving an objective. The power would be truly amazing.
I guess the reason I started thinking of this, relates to something I read in Sanskrit a long time ago, which meant something like "The human mind is like a monkey, it keeps jumping all over the place. It is hard to keep it steady on something. To control the mind, is like controlling the wind".
I kid you not, try this and you'll realize - try to NOT think anything for sometime. Its really hard. Even if you try to think of just 1 thing for sometime, its hard. You will notice that there is always some other thoughts that come up, or something running in the background...
Analogy 2
Well, this is not really an analogy, but something supportive, I guess, lol. In the thermodynamics class today, the professor was talking about entropy (which is basically a measure of the disorderness of a system).
One thing he said was to maximize the performance of a system, we want to minimize entropy. Haha...I feel the same way about the human mind, to maximize performance, we need to minimize entropy.
Let me end this post with that. :)
Thinking about it, I could have organized the flow of the post (in terms of content) better... but oh well, this is not English class and these are just thoughts as I had them (somewhat...)
lol.
Analaogy 1
When we learnt about drift velocity in "Electricity, Magnetism and Optics", this is the analogy I drew:
First, let me explain the concept. In a wire, the electrons move at very high speeds in all directions - they move at a high speed randomly. This type of random movement is useless to us. We want them to flow in 1 direction in a controlled manner to make use of it, as current. When we apply a potential difference across 2 ends in a circuit, we induce a magnetic field in 1 direction, this causes the electrons to slowly move in 1 direction. The random movement is still present, but overall the electrons are starting to move in 1 direction - the velocity with which they move is called the drift velocity. This velocity is much much slower.
The analogy I drew was, the human mind is like electrons in the wire. There is a lot of chaos present. But when we think of something and "will" to do it. We cause the mind to move in that direction with some drift velocity. If we had very good control of our mind - to be able to control all the electrons, if the speed of random motion was used towards achieving an objective. The power would be truly amazing.
I guess the reason I started thinking of this, relates to something I read in Sanskrit a long time ago, which meant something like "The human mind is like a monkey, it keeps jumping all over the place. It is hard to keep it steady on something. To control the mind, is like controlling the wind".
I kid you not, try this and you'll realize - try to NOT think anything for sometime. Its really hard. Even if you try to think of just 1 thing for sometime, its hard. You will notice that there is always some other thoughts that come up, or something running in the background...
Analogy 2
Well, this is not really an analogy, but something supportive, I guess, lol. In the thermodynamics class today, the professor was talking about entropy (which is basically a measure of the disorderness of a system).
One thing he said was to maximize the performance of a system, we want to minimize entropy. Haha...I feel the same way about the human mind, to maximize performance, we need to minimize entropy.
Let me end this post with that. :)
Thinking about it, I could have organized the flow of the post (in terms of content) better... but oh well, this is not English class and these are just thoughts as I had them (somewhat...)
lol.
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