Near and Far [or the mystery between the immanent and transcendent]

April 26, 2023 Category : , Off

Near and Far.

Man embodied and mirrored the divine, but out of necessity, both instinctively and involuntarily (just like predatory animals prey without thinking too much about it). Man hence out of necessity established Kingship in the form of shepherd kings (or heroic kings) on Earth.

Later, so called 'proto-philosophers" or high priests or later prophets would systematize and organize this Kingship into an elaborated theology.

From the Just Shepherd Kings, the priests and earlier-generation prophets took it to the Mazzaroth [Zodiac] or eighth sphere.

From Mazzaroth, the Pharaohs, Brahmans, and newer generation prophets brought it to the ground.

From Pharaoh/Brahmin, it went to the transcendental Re/Brahman/"Sunyata".

From the FAR, Caesars bought it again back to the ground.

But again, it got degenerated and rotten on the ground, so the Hermeticists, Neoplatonists, and Gnostics took it to the untouchable havens.

From the remnants of all prior cultures, mostly from Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Neoplatonist, and Gnostic, Islam again brought it again NEAR. But unfortunately, at the same time, for the uninitiated, Islam also took it to the FAR, FAR and FAR havens, where it is secure and free from corruption.

Initially, each cycle took thousands of years to rotate between near and far.

Now, each cycle takes a few hundred years in the society and becomes culturally dominant and the preferred way of thinking.

But, for a seeker, near and far always cycle multiple times within his own life time.

This is the mystery between the immanent and transcendent.

Where is your Memory in the brain?

January 21, 2023 Category : Off

Short Essay:

Where is your Memory in the brain?
It is not as simple you might suspect.
Let me start with...
It is NOT stored in one location.
It is NOT stored in a fixed group of Neurons.
It is not stored in synaptic terminals.
It is not stored in a specific neural circuit.
It is not stored by enzymatic modification of certain receptor or proteins or genetic facilitation or silencing via methylations.
Then where is it?
It is the electrical waves between areas (but the same memory can be represented by similar electrical waves but using different neurons each time which is "different" than the original neuron that participated in the memory "encoding" and consolidation phase.

So there is NO fixed locus of memory.

Because there is No fixed location needed, the brain's physical size cannot impose the amount the new memory can be formed. Same brain regions participate creating new and unlimited amount of memory.

It is like, how many times you can create waves in a pond or in a river.
The correct answer is: There are no limits (unlike computer hard disk where every disk has predefined read and write function shelf life at the time of manufacturing the hard disk. So they have a limited size.

Now ask yourself.. Is wave part of the water or wave is what water does!
Is a Movie is part of the TV set or what TV set displays!
And Finally, is memory part of the brain or what brain does! If so.. there does the memory come from?

Think.
Reflect.
Find out.


PS:
Even if you are a professional neuroscientist, there is a high chance that you are still not familial with the complex literature on learning and memory. And even you read the vast literature, there is a change that you will not find the true interpretation of the research papers in the formidable labyrinth of Memory. Attached is summary review paper to introduce the complex terrain of Memory. Give a try if you dare.
..
The brain in motion: How ensemble fluidity drives memory-updating and flexibility
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.63550

Does Free will exist?

January 2, 2022 Category : , Off

 Does Free will exist: Simple question but difficult to answer. 

Here is my summary:

1. Ask the ancients: Yes there is free will and you have choice that you can make and face the consequences of your choices!

2. Ask the theologian (especially Abrahamic tradition): Yes, there is indeed free will in human, gifted by God himself.

3. Ask the philosophers: 1/2 of them will say- yes there is free will and other 1/2 will say- no free will exist.

4. Ask the neuroscientist: No free will, and apparent free will is just a illusion created by our brain via neurotransmitter activities and neuronal firing.

5. Ask a psychologist: No free will, it is just a defense mechanism, appearing as an illusions to help us function in this chaotic world.

6. As Darwinian evolutionist: No free will, and the choice we make is the function of Darwinian survival of the fittest to make us survive.

7. Ask a Judge of supreme court and any court judge: They will say, YES there is free will. Without free will, the legal system cannot work and they accept the free will to exist, in a normal (non psychotic) person.

8. Ask a modern day skeptics/new scientist: They are trying to find a middle ground by making "compatibilist" as new fashionable choice saying there no free will in broader sense, yet, we are free to chose is limited sense in limited settings. Compatibilism says free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically inconsistent. Compatibilism says that causal determinism is true, but we still act as free, morally responsible agents when, in the absence of external constraints, our actions are caused by our desires. In short: No free will globally, but have limited free will locally.

9. Ask a quantum physicist: Nope, there is no free will. Choice is just illusion in the spectrum of probability phase space!

10. If you ask me: Here is my view:

Free Will: A 3 step process.

A. We first discover the wonderful thing called free will. I want to move my hand, and there it is. I can move at my will! I am free!! I can do anything I want.

B. Oh no.. am I really free? Is there anything such as actual freedom or free will?

Everything seems to come from deep subconscious and I am not free.

I am just a victim of my subconscious (psychoanalysis) or my neuronal firing in my brain, or victim of the nature (non-theistic worldviews) or the God (Theistic world view). There is no such thing called freedom!

C. Ohh.. I see.. I am free after all. Actually, I was and am always free! It takes a long time to see, why and how I am free after all with true free will. All the esoteric traditions actually have been saying this for long time. No wonder! 


A short note on the Esoteric explanation for our True Free Will. [An Explanation of Point number #10]

We see things happening, changing, transforming all the time. Even without a concrete apparent teleology, we can agree on the fact that, it is changing and becoming something else.

Now let us start with our apparent free will that we still have. For example, I want to move my hand, and there I can. I want to write this short essay and there I can!

Because we came out of this Nature, Universe or From GOD, whatever you prefer to call it, that must have similar property or intentionality or free will for itself. Remember, "as above, so below and as below so above"?

For the universe, (nature or God), with its own free is trying to observe and appreciate itself by constant change and transformation. Because, we are also part of universe observing itself, we have that rudimentary degree of freedom left in us to be absolutely free. Yes, Our free will is restricted but it is still qualitatively IDENTICAL to that original unlimited free will (Point #2, Free will is a GIFT of GOD).

For any nonphysical entity, the degree of freedom (DF) of the free can be unrestricted, just like a wave function of a photon before being measured. But once you have physical form and that physical form can be witness or measured by other entity, in order to be faithful and consistent with the laws of Nature, the degrees of freedom for the free will get restricted as a Necessity (Ananke). It cannot be otherwise to be absolutely free yet having any physical form. MATTER is the mother of restriction by definition and also by empirical evidences. MATTER is the GREAT degree of freedom (DF) DEVOURER.

All ancient traditions or even our own intuition tells us that the universe was started at a free will, out of compassion or love. That free will got decayed as we human appeared in current form. But that leftover free will that we still have is the highest amount of free will that any physical entity to enjoy and simultaneously can perceive the presence of free will and can execute his free will on the nature itself.

So the nature is executing its free will on nature itself, but in doing so, its original freedom got restricted. Even with this restricted degreed of freedom, it is HIGEST achievable FREE WILL for any physical being. 

So our so called restricted free will is actually THE HIGHEST that you can ever find anyone physical in the universe.

In conclusion, not only we have FREE WILL, but also we have absolute HIGHEST degree of FREE WILL possible in any conceivable universe!

@2022

Poem: To speak or not to speak

November 2, 2021 Category : Off

 A short poem, dedicated to any fellow seekers.

Title of the Poem:
To speak or not to speak:

They say.. those who speak, do not know,
Those who know, do not speak!
I give no heed in either critique,
Just decided, I am free to speak.

The speaker of the truth doesn't care if you accept it or not,
The listener ought to see who knows and who does not!
Once recognized, then Truth will descend upon you,
It will show you the ways that you had no clue.

It will make you proud yet humble,
From that point, you start feeling the ineffable!
Then cycle again starts,
If you want, you can speak again from hearts!

Many will reject, some will attack and some will laugh,
But a few will see the truth and keep it alive on your behalf.
It is not your job to win over people nor to make them adhere,
Rather, Sing the Truth out for those with ears to hear!

English can be a deceiving language!

October 2, 2021 Category : Off

ইংরেজি (বা অন্য কোন ভাষা) হতে পারে খুব প্রতারণামূলক ভাষা!
কেন?
1. ইংরেজি একটি পরিকল্পিত এবং সিন্থেটিক ভাষা (বেশিরভাগ জার্মানিক এবং পরে ইন্দো-ইউরোপীয় শিকড় থেকে ধার করা)
2. একই ধারণা প্রকাশ করার জন্য অনেকগুলি ভিন্ন শব্দ বিদ্যমান। তারপর এটি অনুরূপ শব্দ প্রকাশ করতে অস্বীকার করে এবং এটি কৃত্রিমভাবে জটিল করে তোলে।
3. বিজ্ঞানী বা শিক্ষাবিদদের দ্বারা চুরির অভিযোগ এড়াতে জটিল শব্দ সৃষ্টি করার অভ্যাস।
4. সব কিছুর নাম দেওয়া এবং এটিকে গুরুনিহিত অর্থকে নষ্ট করা, (এমনকি কিছু পবিত্র বা গুরুতর ধারণাও)।
5. ইংরেজি একটি নতুন ভাষা তবে এখন অন্য ভাষার কর্তৃত্ব দাবি করছে।
6. ইংরেজী হল ব্যাবলের টাওয়ার। বিদ্বেষপূর্ণভাবে এর ধ্বংসএর মধ্যে ইতিমধ্যেই অন্তর্ভুক্ত রয়েছে।
7. মানুষকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করার জন্য শব্দ ব্যবহার করা যেতে পারে, এবং সম্পূর্ণ "রাজনৈতিক সঠিকতা" আসলে "শব্দের অত্যাচার" এর মাধ্যমে মানুষের মনকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ এবং নিপীড়ন করা
English (or any other language) can be a very deceiving language!
Why?
1. English is a Designed and Synthetic Language (borrowed mostly from Germanic and later Indo-European Roots)
2. Many different words exist to express the same concept. Then it steadfastly refuses to express the same meaning with similar words and makes it artificially complicated.
3. Complicating paraphrasing to avoid plagiarism by the scientist or academicians.
4. Name everything and make it banal, even to some sacred or serious concepts.
5. English is a newer if not the newest member of the family of languages but now claiming the authority of the other language against which another language to be interpreted.
6. English is the Tower of Babel. Paradoxically the destruction (loss of meaning) of it is embedded in it already.
7. Words can be used to control people, and the entire "political correctness" is actually to control and oppress people's minds through "tyranny of words"

There are four types of enlightenment

April 1, 2021 Off

চার প্রকারের বোধোদয় [enlightenment]। (original English version below)
১। আপনি প্রমাণের ভিত্তিতে তথ্য এবং সত্য খুঁজছেন। আপনার প্রাথমিক অনুভূতি আপনাকে বলে যে আমরা যা দেখছি তার পিছনে একটি কারণগত প্রয়োজন থাকতে পারে যা ঐতিহ্যগতভাবে ধর্ম বা ধর্মতত্ত্বের অধীনে ছিল। কিন্তু যখন আপনি ধর্মের নামে ভোগান্তি, প্রতারণা, অবিচার দেখেন তখন নিজেই সবকিছু পরীক্ষা করতে চান। যখন আপনি সত্যিই নিশ্চিত হন যে সেখানে কোন স্রষ্টা নেই, এবং আপনি যে জগতে বাস করছেন তা কেবল উদ্দেশ্যহীন কারণ আপনি মনে করেন যে আপনি সবকিছু খতিয়ে দেখেছেন এবং পরীক্ষা করেছেন এবং নিশ্চিত যে আপনি একটি স্রষ্টাহীন জগতে বসবাস করছেন [হার্ড নাস্তিক] - উদাহরণ: "মহাবিশ্ব যত বোধগম্য বলে মনে হয়, এটিকে ততো অর্থহীনও মনে হয় " - পদার্থবিজ্ঞানে নোবেল বিজয়ী - স্টিভেন ওয়েইনবার্গ। [ধর্মনিরপেক্ষ/নাস্তিক বোধোদয়] = কোন স্রষ্টা আসলে নেই!
২। যখন আপনি মনে করেন যে একজন স্রষ্টা আছেন কিন্তু তিনি সম্পূর্ণরূপে অদৃশ্য এবং অজানা। তিনি এই পৃথিবীর কর্মকাণ্ডে হস্তক্ষেপ করেন না এবং আমরা মানুষেরা এর একটি অংশ মাত্র। হার্ড রক বটম [অগ্নিস্টিকস /ডাইষ্ট এনলাইটেনমেন্ট]। = স্রষ্টা থাকতে পারেন, কিন্তু তাকে জানার উপায় নেই।
৩। যখন আপনি মনে করেন যে একজন স্রষ্টা আছে এবং সেই স্রষ্টা বুদ্ধি এবং আবেগ সহ একজন ব্যক্তির মতো একটি বাস্তব সত্তা কিন্তু তিনি একটি ভিন্ন জগতে বসবাস করেন যা আমরা স্বর্গ নামে চিনি । মানুষ শুধুই তার আনন্দের এবং এবাদতের জন্য সৃষ্টি। সুতরাং আমাদের কাজ হল তাঁর নির্দেশ এবং আদেশ অনুসরণ করা কারণ আমরা বিশ্বাস করি যে এই ধরনের একজন স্রষ্টা আসল এবং আমরা কেবল তার সৃষ্টি [ধর্মীয় বোধোদয় বা প্রফ্রেথহুড]। = একজন স্রষ্টা আছেন এবং এখানে তিনি আমাকে আপনার জন্য যা বলেছেন তা হল এখানে লেখা।
4. যখন আপনি মনে করেন যে একজন স্রষ্টা আছেন এবং স্রষ্টা এই পৃথিবীতেও বিরাজমান কিন্তু স্পষ্ট দৃষ্টিতে লুকানো যা মৃত্যুর করনে বাধাগ্রস্ত হয়। তবে পুনরাবৃত্তিমূলক চক্রের মাধ্যমে মৃত্যু এবং পুনরুত্থান এবং আপনি এই পদক্ষেপ (মৃত্যু) এর অর্থ এবং উদ্দেশ্য বুঝতে পারেন এবং একই স্রষ্টা খুঁজে পান যিনি আগে লুকিয়ে ছিলেন, এখন স্পষ্টভাবে দৃশ্যমান। আপনি নিশ্চিত হয়ে উঠবেন এবং আর বিভ্রান্তি বা উদ্বেগ থাকবে না। [নন-ডিনোমিনোশনাল মিস্টিক এনলাইটেনমেন্ট]। = এই স্রষ্টা ছাড়া অন্য কোন স্রষ্টা নেই!
পাদটীকা:
দয়া করে মনে রাখবেন, বিরল পরিস্থিতিতে, একজন ব্যক্তিকে একই সাথে একাধিক বিভাগের মধ্যে পাওয়া যেতে পারে।
There are four types of enlightenment.
1. You are looking for truth and fact-based evidence. Your initial gut feeling tells you that there might be a causal necessity behind everything we are seeing that was traditionally regarding under the domain of religion or theology. But when you see sufferings, deceptions, injustice in the name of religion and wanted to examine everything by yourself. In this exploration, when you are really sure that there's no God out there, and the world you are living in is simply directionless and purposeless [no teleology] because you think you have seen and examined everything and you are living in a Godless world [Hard Atheist] - Example: "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless" -Nobel laureate in Physics - Steven Weinberg. [Secular/Atheist Enlightenment]. = There is No God!
2. When you think that there is a God but he is completely transcendent and unknowable. He doesn't interfere with the world we are living in, and we human beings are just part of it. There is Hard Rock Bottom [Agnostics /Deist [similar to Buddhist] Enlightenment]. = God might Exist, but he is not knowable.
3. When you think there is a God and that God is a real entity like a person with intelligence and emotions but he lives in a different world traditionally known as heaven. Human beings are just his creation for pleasure. So our job is to follow his instruction and command because of our confidence that such a God is real and we are just his creation [Religious Enlightenment or Prophethoods]. = There is a God and here is what he has told me for you to do.
4. When you think there is a God and the God resides also in this world but the hidden in plain sight which is obstructed by the interruption of Death. However, by repetitive cycle Death and Resurrection, you came to understand the meaning and the purpose of this step (Death) and find the same GOD who was previously hidden, now clearly visible in plain sight. You become sure and no more confusion or anxiety. [Non-Denominational Mystic Enlightenment]. = There is No God, but God!
Footnote:
1. This essay is not intended to hurt anyone's feelings but centered around the core idea of "Enlightenment". It is not about if any of those categories are better than others or not. And also not about the utility and benefit of any of the 4 types of "Enlightenment".
2. Please note, in rare circumstances, one single person can be simultaneously described by multiple categories.
3. There is a difference between specific and generalization. We do not know what Time actually is but we can understand there is an overall flow of things. Even though we do not understand even a simple proton, but we are using it all the time. Just because we do not understand the first nanosecond of Bigbang, it would not prevent us to generalize that we exist today and we did not exist at some point in time, so must have come from somewhere, presumably Bigbang. This is system-level understanding, rather than specific-level understanding. The literature around Enlightenment is never around specifics, but a rather system-level generalization. Some people actually don't believe there is any such thing called Enlightenment, but I give the name "Secular/Atheist Enlightenment" anyway just for the sake of discussion.

CrossRef:
http://this-is-what-you-ve-been-looking-for.blogspot.com/2014/02/where-are-you-in-cycle.html








Surrender !

July 23, 2020 Off

Surrender Levels

Level 1
Premature Surrender - Unexamined
Vs
Level 2
Surrender - Incompletely Examined
Vs
Level 3
Surrender - Examination interrupted by Fear or felling of inadequate time and opportunity
Vs
Level 4
Surrender - Opportunistic, and Intermittent. Multiple Surrender when the time is right or difficult.
Vs
Level 5
Surrender - Cost-Effective - Intentional Delayed Surrender
vs
Level 6
Surrender until the last resource/breath has been used (Example, Jacob's way, i.e never surrender)
Vs
Level 7
Surrender at the cost of utilizing or using the last breath.

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