And the roads met!!!

Back where times, when we were ignorant, so much so that it was bliss. Literally bliss and then the roads diverged.

Evolution of mankind is so interesting to study, its not the biological evolution I’m speaking of but his mind. When man abandoned his nomadic life and discovered the fruits of agriculture, he began to think. The thinking process became refined and man began to seek and understand nature.Civilisations were born and man suddenly turned a creator of things, something which nature could accomplish before. Buildings, tools, utensils, toys to what not, but there was something which was still dark to the mind of man. What makes nature the way it is. Man feared all powers of nature, he feared it so much that he began worshiping it and thus the Gods were born.Atlas,Eros,Mars innumerable where the names.

Somewhere in between, people who were star gazers where helped by the discovery of telescopes.It opened up a whole new horizon for thinking. Links began to be formed between the positions of planets, starts, sun and the lives of people. Meanwhile, the God phenomenon was gaining popularity as people who were lazy could conviniently agree on what was said, rather to think what was right and what was wrong. Kingdoms were born and kings themselves found pride in declaring themselves as God.

Though God phenomenon was widespread, it caused little hindrance to progess of man till when civilisations began to get really matured and organisations were formed. A new class of thinkers sprouted up. They began questioning at the basic levels. They sought to defy the roots of established principles. “Illuminati” the called themselves and soon all the abuses and arms the system could throw out of them were overcome by the chasity of truth.

 With that being the history, I’m taking up the thinking process as core.

When Illuminati emerged, they sought for answers. Concrete and discrete answers to why nature behaved so. Laws were formed and laws were deterministic. Everything worked on some simple law and situations were idealised. It was as if , the prediction of storm is a matter of solving of a linear equation in two variables.

This was quite acceptable, as in the beginning stages, introduction of complexions was unnecessary and people would rather spend time in exploring many things that to go too much into one subject, but soon as expected saturation began to be reached and basic laws were no longer sufficient to predict the behavior when things got out of control.

Thus began the thought of diversification and every process which was deterministic turned stochastic with every factor being considered. Suddenly all problems were taken to the level of NP Hard and search methods started moving from heuristic to meta heuristic to what not. Introduction of computers made this complication easier with its abilities to crunch many numbers simultaneously and at speeds of teraflops.

To interject here, as a funny consequence, many began seeing computer as an all powerful machine. People should realize that computer is instructed by man on what to do and it does nothing but, as the name says computations, at a faster rate that man doing it personally.

(To be continued)

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