Guess your way out of uncertainity

No matter what religious scripture one reads after a while the entire subject gets more obscure than when one had started. The mind becomes more unsure of itself and the floodgates of question comes pouring over. The first 30 years of once life is I think is a breeze some really "gifted" individuals would denote it with much smaller number. Everything is so set and definite. You start your kindergarten, score good grades, move up the 12 standards of schooling to attain your right for a college education. Another 3-4 years of being called a bachelor, and more 2 years and call yourself a Master and another 5-10 years to call yourself a Philosopher. Or you hate being a Master/Philosopher get into the thick of action jump in into your careers. Get Married. All right. Easy Peazy Lemon Sqeezy. Everything is so hunky dory and then like Neo in Matrix you wake up. 


You touch upon on myriad Spiritualists, Philosophers, Thinkers, Rock Stars, God Men, Politicians, Communists, Capitalists, Socialists, Hollywood Movies, Bollywood Movies, 9-11 Bombings, War against Terror etcetera etcetera etcetera. Each time you touch and if you had been sensitive you are affected, extent would depend upon one's predisposition.If you are touched then you say something is wrong. Then you run behind the elusive, what is true? If your run had been rather a 100m sprint then you may be brandishing your AK-47, dropping bombs and killing babies or if your run had been a marathon one, you might be protesting on the streets, writing columns, blogs, tweeting, ..., to summarize you will be, not only you we all will be, voicing our inner self when our search for an answer stops. You stop when you think you know the answer and act. 


So from one well seemingly well defined system we realize "truth" and break away to something else. A different "System". A system nonetheless. Until one meets the next Contradiction and Mr.Transformation would seek our appointment again. According to the Advaita "Change is the Only Constant". I smell another system. 


This reminds me of a scene from Fiddler On the Roof

Avram: (gestures at Perchik and Mordcha) He's right, and he's right? They can't both be right.

Tevye: You know... you are also right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXIdamBEUJE

So why am I ranting today morning, the reason is the following link.


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627550.200-enter-the-matrix-the-deep-law-that-shapes-our-reality.html


The science has created this marvelous system to explain nature. We have gone from Classical Theory, to Quantum Theory Standard Model, and now new theories to explain the unexplainable such as the string theory and the perennial search for the Unified Theory. In this search we hit contradictions along the way and the new scientist blog by the gentleman named Mark Buchanan describes a spooky way of guessing your way out a.k.a Random Matrix Theory. 


One particular pair of sentence struck me


" It means that while a large amount of information makes it easy to study everything, it also makes it easy to find meaningless patterns. That's where the random-matrix approach comes in, to separate what is meaningful from what is nonsense."


Geez, Does this mean that Lab Mouse that we are can get out of any contradiction/conjecture/problem by mere guessing?


Kaustav: Sense and non-sense are separated by a GUESS?
Tevye   :  You are right.