Friday, April 8, 2011

cook book


             Recently i read a book titled blink. The author discusses about the subconscious and the decisons we make there without being consciously aware. It srtikes me because there were a couple of instances, when, i have personaly  realized that some thoughts  and opinions i had in my mind  was not out of conscious decisons but had been formed in a subconscious state and were slowly pushed up into my consciousness. Everytime, the realization came when someone asked me some question related to that opinion, like," why do u prefer this?"  or" whats the reason behind your view?"
              Thats when i realize that i'm consciously aware of my opinion but do not have any record of how i came about forming that opinion. Such questions take us by surprise. And many a times we try to cook up some answer and eventually we end up  believing that the cooked up reason is the real reason behind our opinion. For eg, in sports i dont prefer playing cricket, and when someone asks me why, i say its because, i dont go to sports ground often and when i do, i want to use the entire time spending my energy and working my muscles but in cricket, only two people are active in an instant and so i find it a waste of time. I know for sure that this is not the reason why i initially formed dislike towards the game.But i've used this cooked up reason so many times that i cannot find the actual reason. 
                   Extending this line of thought i came to realize another beautiful phenomenon. We form a theory or opinion or we read about something and ponder over it choosing our sides. Untill the instant we put such thoughts into words and write them down or tell it to someone, the entire thought process has some level of vagueness and abstractness. And in the process of telling it to someone, we realize that the thought has some gaps to fill or even sometimes it so happens that we evolve a better version of the thought or in some extreme cases we realize there is a flaw and arrive at an opinion entirely opposite to our initial thought  just by trying to put it in words! Now, why am i writing down all this? Because i am about to pen down some of my profound( this term is relative, confined to universal set of my thoughts alone) thoughts which i have rarely discussed with someone in my subsequent posts and any comment/debate on them are welcome. Infact I want you friends to share your views about those topics starting from this post which will help us in refining each others' ideas

1 comment:

  1. It is similar to the bad detective routine. We, sub consciously, form opinions or rather ideas magically land into our sub-conscious, and when asked for a reason or the event responsible for the triggering or inception of that idea/opinion, we dive deep into the abysmal nothingness inside our head, trying to clear those foggy areas to find some pure, logical clue; and in the event of not finding any, like you put it nicely- we plant one performing a deception on ourselves; and we deceive ourselves so nicely, that it is unimaginable to catch the falsity of it for we ourselves chose to forget the falsity consciously. It is only when we lower our defense a little, in our sleep or in times when lost in the land of music, etc., are we so lewdly vulnerable to accepting that which we once chose to forget, but never did!

    Interesting post man! And yes, the book- Blink is a good read. Cheers.

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