In previous article, I have written how capitalism is a pyramid scheme. The driving force of capitalism is the selfishness of individual or co-operation. Infact, the co-operation is a system where the values are generated for the sake of shareholders. If you consider Warren Buffet, his whole life is spent to increase the value of shareholders of Birkshire Hathway. He had been loyal in this respect, so was Charlie Munger.But they wouldn't care who gets poor. This form of capitalism is a pyramid scheme it is bound to collapse. As it merely widens the gap between rich and poor over time. If you want to know how, read my first article. But, to move forward and know what to do about it, take a look at following quote from "The Art of War". Co -operation "The greatest victory is that which requires no battle." Sun Tzu You may not believe this as you would always think in selfish drive which forces us to survive. But, infact you can look at modern co-operation seems to be a mini version of such collection of selfish individuals, working against other co-operations. They are in constant push against each other to become the biggest shark. However, the best outcome comes, when the co-operation not only think about itself but the wellbeing of the customer. If that part is niglected, sooner or later the society will reject such co-operations. This is why every co-operation have a "outer smiling face" when they deal with customers. They atleast try to appear, humane as possbile. But, if these so called co-operation leaders understand that, in the long term the winners are the ones who never would need a battle, they could have co-operated with the society which it serves in the first place. Consider a battle, inevitably if they fight, there would be a loss of lives and value in consumables. To both parties regardless of who wins. So, the great concquerers would rarther have no battle, so they can use the men and resources for the development instead. This is a question which have a mathematical answer as well. If you read about the "Game theory", the best outcome arise when everyone agrees to co-operate with each other, rarther than the betrayal. But, the most difficult part is to build enough trust with each other, that nobody would go against someone weaker and try to gain an advanced position over others. In the modern world, I can see this happening in practical way. As countries advance in development, more and more they realise the value of peace. Even a battle in middle of nowhere in Madagascar would affect the global economy. So, everyone is pressing them to come to a peace deal. I see this as an evolution of collective human consciousness, one step toward the purity of God. Who knows, we might convince everyone in the world one day to be more peaceful, caring and co-operative as we see that would create greater future for our individual consciousness. Infact, humans are the ultimate creatures who harvested this power of being in a "Group". It helped us to build cities and smartphones, and crypto. Unity Co-operation in future capitalism Sometimes, we just have to watch and wait. Trying to do something when it is not needed is going to cause more harm. Most importantly we need to identify that, even co-operation with enemy in simplest form is way better than a battle. So, when I say co-operation is the future of capitalism, it doesn't mean the co-operation of just few people in the society acting for selfish greed. It is meant to be everyone including the children who work in sugar cane factories in rural africa. If they do not benifit from the global economy, one day, they might declare a battle which can doom entire human consciousness. I do not think, the initiative should be a burden only should be carried by the government. Which is not sustainable by any means, unless modern co-operations understand this concept, they would fight against their own government in an eternal cold battle which will end in a revolution. So, what do you think about victory without a battle?

We used to have an old, schoolmaster when I was in middle grades. With grey hair, extra slow speech, he seemed and acted like a wise person. I appreciated his manner more than his teachings, quietly and I remember him, maybe the reason why. Thinking Often I saw  him think. Every word came out of his mouth, went through his brain. Every action he took, looked deleberate than spontaneous. How did he achieved, that patience. I do not see this often in men or women, but only once or twice in my life I have seen such people. Atleast for him, he knew why. He said once he was a quick tempered person. He would punish any student even without letting them speak. But one day he had punished an innocent student. And it made him regret and changed the manner. I would not say that was the only reason. Maybe every man with a brain, when become older with experience would be in a such a state as him. But apparently not. As suggested by the previous quote from Bertrand Russell. Most of men would rarther die than think, and many have. What did he mean when he uttered the above quote? That we are more ignorent when it comes to our choices? What is thinking anyway? When we consider the locus of control, I find rarther difficult to explain the process of thinking. Infact I do not find evidence to point out exactly whether there is anything called delebrate thinking. Thinking seems to be rarther an uncontrollable process which happens as a reaction to the enviornment. Not completely separate from the envornment. In this framework, it is not that every man is not thinking. It looks like most of the time, these non thinking men do not have underlying factors which make them to think before they action. Maybe lack of knowledge or experience has more effect than pure dumbness of the man's mind. How can we avoid being dead without thinking? Answer is relatively simple, and it seems to be inherently attached to our awareness, or so called mindfulness. Waterfall with fresh water Last few days when I drove around the lagoon, I felt a bad smell. It had been sometime since there was a rain, and all the dirt which accumilated in the lagoon, had given rise to a foul smelling algae. There was not enough flow, for it to be washed away. Similarly, if you have seen a sream, you would notice that when the slope is steep the water is fresher, well oxygenated and even drinkable without any bad effects. This natural cleansing process is used in every water treatment plant by deliberately created water cascades. Consider your mind to a stream. If there is no flow of thought, it will just stagnate and start to stink soon enough. But when you are aware you would see, it is far from true that men do not think. Men do think! It's that they are ignorant of their thoughts most of the time, either due to egotism or untrained mind. Sometimes the lack of well written or Said information keeps them away from achieving the natural purified status of mind. So the challenge is not to start thinking about things that we do not know. But to change the enviornment so that there are enough cascades and flow of thoughts. Writing has helped me to achieve just that. One tiny idea would evolve into a branch and leaves over the course of few minutes and will be added to my knowlege. Maybe you should just do the same. Maybe men do think enough about things after all but only very few chose to record them before they die.

Story of evolution. Last Thursday me and my friend were discussing about personnal finance. And a term which frequently came up was an opportunity Cost. It is hard to understand but evolutionary in nature. We just have to look at a slide of dirty water to understand what it means. Imagine a drop of water taken from a natural source, looked through a magnifying glass. It was two decades ago in biology class we did that experiment, and saw various unicellular creatures. Amoeba, specifically. They were just blobs of water engulfed with a membrane, with some organelles inside. It was fascinating to watch them. So how do these creatures, who are living fossils of our evolutionary tree teach us about opportunity cost? Amoeba If you stare at an amoeba for sometime you would see it gently moves. Using its own volume, and energy it pushes new limbs out into unknown envornment. Infact as the total volume inside its membrane remains the same, it has to involute some part of its body to do this. And often it is the opposite side which it wants to move. That there is our evidence of opportunity cost. Consider what it means. Amoeba wants to move forward, to find food in new territories. But it cannot move in every direction at the same time. It has to give up all other opportunities when it has taken a step to move in one direction. This happens as it is limited by its own membrane which keeps everything together. Consider this to a journey of a man or women through time. Whenever we are given a choice in life, deliberately or willingly we do this by saying no to the other options. Following are examples. Opportunity costs in life When you move forward, you say no to moving in all other directions. When you pursue a one career, you say no to all other careers out there which you could have pursue. When you chose a partner you say no to others who are potential future partners. When you turn on the TV you say no to reading a book. When you chose to go to a party instead of studying you say no to potential long term rewards. When you say yes to cigarettes and Alcohol, you say no to a healthy future. When you get angry, you say no to a peaceful mind. When you say yes to apple stock, you say no to all other 499 companies in S&p 500 and everything else in the market. Opportunities How to avoid opportunity costs? As you can see, opportunity costs are unavoidable in life. It is a part and parcel of every natural life. Every journey we have ever taken, every choice we have ever made in the past have changed your story, not by minute margins but by massive deviations. As opportunity costs are high some live regrettable lives worrying over their missed opportunities in the past. But here is a thought for you who are worrying. Opportunity costs which made you regretted in the past are unique for you. It had made you the person you are today. But the moment you stop reading this article you are going to choose something to do. I am not sure what it is. Maybe you would scroll through random articles throughout this blog. Maybe you would want to know who and what "magical mindful living" is. Maybe you wanna eat something or drink a cup of tea. But whatever you choose I can gurentee you it will have consequences which you can fail to recognise, as opportunity costs. So be wise to spend time to decide which direction you wanna go, as you will have to use limited resources called your mind and body into this, like an Amoeba does on a petri dish. Take your time to make a wise choice, and prepared to take a step back and change your direction early if things seems to be not working out. Maybe you would survive enough until you replicate yourself if you just do that, to continue the illusion of persistent life on the planet.

Little bambini had a problem. She was bright as ever smiling out of the bed in the lovely morning, but had trouble changing cloths. No matter how hard she tried she could not put her cloths on the correct side! This time the shirt and trouser both are in wrong side. So, instead of trying to correct the shirt, she wanted to fixed her head to the other side. And it seems to be having the same effect as changing her cloths. Aha! what a brilliant idea. Climbing a mountain Above is just a small example of how principle of inversion, is used in real life. But, if you looked carefully around the world there are many more. Consider the race to success, instead of trying to work hard and move to success faster, you can consider it as a game where you try to stop getting bankruptcy and broke. It doesn't matter who wins the race or who, reach a trillion dollars faster. If you are not broke by your retirement, we can consider it as a success. You know who else had little bambini wisdom? Its Warren Buffet! the investor. Yes, he had this concept of trying to invert the thinking when answers are not clear. It may be an old version of red hat black hat thinking. Let's look at some practical examples where you can incoperate this principle to your life. Imagine you want to be happy today. You do right? How to spend happy today? with principle of inversion. I wonder who keeps pondering your happiness till it dissapear? Maybe it's your bad habits. Instead of trying to be happy focuss on trying not to get sad. But now you will see a lot of potential. Maybe wasting too much time on televsion, worrying about what is going to happen tomorrow, sorrowing over people who are out of your reach, even lonelyness which dissapears when you step out of your house, keeps you away from happiness you are trying to reach. Someone might call it the stoic way of reaching happiness by inderectly focussing on kindness and silence. But you can also call it Bambini method. As you have worn a good shirt on the wrong side. A bullish ride Think about it for a moment. Today is fine. It's a little raining, and gloomy. You haven't seen a glimpse of the Autumn sun so far. Cold a day. But, is that a reason for you to be grumpy, Like an old man in Christmas Carol? Maybe you can change yourself instead. You may be able to see the good side of your old parents and nasty children. You will see silver linings of the clouds, that indirectly point to sunlight if you looked carefully at the gloomy sky. You will see squirrels collecting nuts, in the park, for the winter ahead. You will know what to do with few dollars in your bank account to make a smile on another persons face. Instead using it for your lavish expenditure. Maybe you hold the power to make your day a happy one. This is not the only way you can use the principle of inversion. That is what is wonderful about principles. You can learn it once and use it everywhere. If you want to climb a mountain, make sure and do everything to not to slip and fall. If you want to pass an exam, make sure you do not fail, due to stupid reasons. If you want to be healthy, try and wipe out all the unhealthy grabage from your life. If you want to be rich, make sure you do not lose what you have already gained. If you are playing hunger games, try to survive instead killing others.

In life we all assume truth to be fixed. How can we achieve any target if the target keeps moving away from Us? Either we will arrive early or late, always. Yet from observations about the world, I haven't seen anything which is fixed, either in time, or in space. In human observable dimensions, everything seems to be moving . And it made me realise, truth also cannot be fixed relative to this moving dynamic frame of observation. Let's cut the crap and try to narrow it down so, we can use philosophy of dynamic truth in everyday. Searching for truth A paradigm shift. Let's do another thought experiment. This time, for the sake of it we will assume the truth is dynamic, always. Not once, not twice, but everytiime you observe something. What will happen when you use this framework. Let's discuss a day of Mr.Dynamic Truth. To illustrate the dynamic truth I will use brakets to show you the alternating story of him. Mr.Dynamic Truth. Mr Dynamic Truth woke up today morning. [Mr. Dynamic Truth did not wake up, infact he never slept as he could not define what is sleeping relative to wake up as he was not there to observe what happened during the sleep] He had his cup of tea, it was tasety. [He did not drink a cup of tea, but just dropped it into his mouth, but it just kept flowing down his oesophagus due to effects of gravity][His cup of tea was not tasty continously, the first slip of it was tastier, than the last slip. Infact he did not taste the last bit of it as it was too concentrated tea] The sun was up and he noticed sunlight at his feet. [Sun did not come up, the earth just rotated and moved around the sun, It wasn't sunlight at his feet. Just some massless photones which travelled through the vaccum of the space.] He sat down at his laptop to write about dynamic truth. [And thoroughly searched for himself, which he could not exactly point out where so he could not tell who was sitting and who was writing] Dynamic heaven Discussion. As you can see, the dynamic nature of the truth wasn't apperent until Mr. Truth started ask questions in a different framework. From a different angle. You might call it a red hat or a black hat. And the relative strength of the previous truth just shake a little bit when we look at it from a different angle. You may have experienced this in different areas in life. It maybe something you thought to be true in the past, which became false when you learned a little bit more. Consider this as Dunning Cruger effect on truth. When we start learning about a thing, first we assume as we have a full knowledge and we might even stop searching. But, only when we start to face real life problems, or learn deep enough that we understand our previous assumption is wrong. The fact is our conciousness is not capable of understanding every causation fast enough. As everything is changing so rapidly from moment to moment, the truth also moves. Consider heaven. By the time we reach there, how can we gurentee that it will remain same and the All might God, will not be old grandpa? I would rarther fix the fixlessness of the truth than trying to find it. And that single fact might make you smile when everyone else are crying in this relatively dynamic system called the "World and You".

Today I am going to write about leverage. I am sure many of you have come across this principle yet, you did not think about it through. Instead just glanced over it in a rush. Hence, likely you have never used it deliberately, but only subconsicously. This article is best for someone who start out life early. "If you give me long enough lever and a place to stand I will move the earth" -Archemides. It is true. If you doubt your strength above statement should stop that. As everyone on earth who can move their eyelids, can technically move the earth. If you are into physics you might find lot of false in above statement. It is practially impossible to make a lever that long, without any friction and move the earth with it. But the concept is true atleast on paper, atleast on imagination. The idea is if we give enough leverage to what we are doing, we should be able to do our tasks with minimal effort. Leverage How to use the principle of Leverage in your life? I have come across this principle in many places. In habit formation -> leverage can be used as a social commintment by telling your habit to others -> consider quit smoking. You can write down your habits. You can mentally visualise your habit. You may break down your habit to 2 minutes so, there is not much effort needed to fulfil the habit. You may say something like "After I go to bed I will turn off the phone" by connecting it to another habit. All these are ways to reduce the pain of doing the actual task. Financial Leverage. Imagine you are a CEO, and your task is to increase the value of the company for the sake of Shareholders. You may use the leverage. If you ask a professor how to do that, he would say, it is better to use some leverage by borrowing money. So over time their is a balanced risk which doubles the rate of growth of the company. But there is a risk if you start to lose the money, so it is little complicated when you using leverage by borrowing. But there are other ways to use leverage. You can hire people to do tasks which otherwise make you tire yourself. You can use technology, social media and coding to improve your reach. You can use your money to buy some assets to grow faster. (Remember Coding-People-Money when it comes to leverage) Infact, there are lot of ways to do everyday boring tasks by leverage. Someone might say it is the same thing, when SteveJobbs talked about iteration. Or working smart - not hard. Nowdays AI is a good way to leverage some tasks, which otherwise difficult. If you are using a car to travel, that I would say a form of leverage than using a bullock cart. However, make sure you do not become a lazy rabbit and fat at the end of the day. Using leverage For reference I have written some other ways how to use leverage in your life. These are just ideas which you may have to reserch and refine before using in your life. Using a todo list -> reduce the mental effort of forgetting and re remembering Using a journal -> helps easier to iterate over time and improve Visualising -> habituate the brain for situations (Ask Jet pilots if it helps) Scanning text before reading -> Makes a scaffolding of knowledge and prime the brain to study faster Working in a group or building one -> if you want to build a skyscraper , you cannot do it alone. Business -> is a system where leverage is use to generate wealth by levering money people and code. Leverage is not a straight forward. It is a dynamic thing. In each iteration of the task cycle leverage can be iterated too and improved. Ultimately it will become more and more easy. So, How are you going to plan leverage today?

This article is closely related to the previous one about Capitalism and pyramid scheme. However this is slightly different as I am discussingabout moral obligation of the wealthy. Definition of a Philanthropist I see lot of them nowadays. Someway or another these rich individuals at the end of there lives start doing more and more charity work to the society. They appear in social gatherings with significantly fat cheques to make them chief guest. Or prestigious among less fortunate commoners. If you earn in billions you and me can do that too. You can spend some millions to appear a philanthropist at the end of our lives. If you earn in trillions, you can do billions. But nobody asks the question what is the exact number where we can call someone a true philanthropist? As I see it modern philanthropist is an⁸other way for rich people to appear a God in front of poor who worked hard to make their friends more rich. So let's stop the dilemma by giving it a number. Rich From the previous article we learned that why rich becomes richer over time while poor becomes more poor. As rich will beat the inflation buying assets while for poor it would become more and more difficult as their buying power keeps getting lower over time. Which means anyone who accumulated significant wealth over years than others does it only because, other people (poor people who are unable to buy assets) do work for them. And lose their money to inflation. Every dollar which is above the average wealth of an individual came out of someone's pocket who lost it in the market. Rich gets rich not because they work hard, only because they have gained the ability to beat the inflation over long periods of time. Making it hard for others to do it. Can you see the problem? These are kind of people who label themselves as philanthropists at the end of their lives as they have nothing else to do with their pile of blood money. So they spend 5% from their total wealth for that name tag. Rest of the wealth they pass down their own decendents to keep on the legend. While it grows 20% each year. The fact is this is true for every investor enterprenuare and capitalist. True definition What is the true definition of a philanthropist? If we ask the same question is there a true philanthropist I would say it is only someone who is able to donate all, or 99% of their wealth back to the society can be labelled as a philanthropist. Others I would think as some cheap robbers who try to steal away the status, as money is not enough for them. It may look like I am angry against the rich when you read this. That is not true. Once we found out how the system works anyone can start doing their own experiment and try to be rich. There is nothing wrong in that. But as you can see we have moral obligations to the society as once majority of people who are rich now came from being poor. If we do not give it back. Society might decide enough is enough and come back to grab their own fair share one day over your dead body. And that will be a very sad ending. Its only very few decades we can cheat them by appearing throwing away few coins on the streets. Think twice Think twice So, if your dream is to become another Warren Buffet or Bill Gates think about it again. I would rarther not play the game. I would rarther be happy figuring out the absurdity of such an endeavour. I would rarther expose the biggest scam called capitalism where a few live out of the sweat and sorrow of the poor.

This article is a simple argument I had in mind for sometime about capitalism. You may have a different idea or a view. Comment on these and we can have a discussion. Capitalism Imagine there is a country called x. In this country the government prints out y amount of money each year to the total pool of money and it creates an inflation. If the population remained same and there is less demand for money reducing buying power of people. Let's say this inflation rate is 4%. Let's say some investor gets a return of 10% per year from entrepreneurship. Not just one but several years in a row for 20 years. What do you think is happening? City We can start examining the opposite case. Imagine your total wealth is 100k dollars and you invest it in a firm which returns 4% each year for 20 years. At the end of this period your buying power would be exactly the same (as your return was equal to inflation). You would be neither rich nor poor. At the end of this period you would be exactly same rich. Or financially same value. But if you consider the other smart guy who got 10% return for 20 years, he has beaten the inflation with a 6% margin. At the end of twenty years his initial 100k investment have significantly increased its value. But how did that happen? Why capitalism is a pyramid scheme? If the all the capital in the country is considered one pool, and anyone who beats the inflation over time must be accumulating more wealth than others. Infact this money he has at the end, comes out of pockets of everyone who wasn't able to beat the inflation rate of the country. Sounds familier right? Capitalism sounds like a pyramid scheme. Somehow over generations, the owners of assets grows bigger in wealth while commoners tend to get more and more poor. As they are unable to buy any assets with their depreciating wealth. And in simple few paragraphs I have explained how capitalism works. But unfortunately this is the best system humans have developed over the course of our history. Sale Why capitalism is best system for growth? If we work in a society where we are not rewarded for our hard and smart work by excess return over inflation, nobody would put an effort to work hard. Create new things, create businesses ships cars and push and fund scientific experiments. Its the capitalism which combined with human greed drives the society to these unimaginable growth in every field in modern world. It works better than communism. Where we might get lazy. I'm not sure integrating both will benefit more or not. Only we can see from future China. End of capitalism. As you can see a pyramid scheme is not sustainable in long term. Soon, over a few decades or centuries the countries will run out of money for the welfare of majority. Poor will be so poor and few wealthy people will engulf everyone else. Like Amazon, Apple and Tesla nowdays compared to kings of the ancient world. When the majority of a country becomes so poor, the power will shift naturally because poor will be more in numbers and they will topple the marriage between government and the rich entrepreneurs. Ultimately with a rebel and blood bath. Ew..  Unless we are able to find out a better system to harvest human greediness and redistribute wealth before each collapse. Riot If you looked back at human history. It's inevitable. Wars, will serve this purpose in general. At this moment in time I see no solution. I just play the game like you, trying to beat the inflation, once you understand the principle you will do the same. But let's get together to make a better system than this. Surely we are more intelligent species than this. Don't you think so?

Yesterday I was at a party. By the lagoon with my friends. While we were chatting about many things from cosmos to backyard worms I was struggling to eat a Crab. To be honest I was not used to eat them. Just the appearance of it on table, like a living creature now baked made me disgusting. Nauseated. Yet there was nothing else to eat. I could either try to eat crab meat or sleep hungry 🤔. For a good half an hour I thought about it whether I should go for it. And putting behind all my prejudices I went for it. Crabs Just like Bear Grills, decided to survive in the wild by choice. I went to work with the crusher and a knife. While others were chatting about how sweet the crab meat was, I was struggling to crush the exoskeleton of the Giant crustacean which sacrificed its life for the greed of humans. I had little sympathy. It wasn't a living crab on my plate but a dead one. And the skeleton was hard. I used all the force which I could gather from the lunch and 'crack, and crack' finally I could eat. Hmmmm. There was only a tiny amount of meat inside. Most of the crab was just hard shell. It's gigantic left hand and the chest had some 2-3 grams of meat. Yet my hands were full of juice. Almost spoiled my suite and I saw someone slip their crab on to the table and beyond! It was a total mess. I am sure that is how it is everywhere. Maybe I was naive to this crab eating party. I was smiling to myself inside my own introverted head, feeling like Robinson cruso, when he met barbarians for the first time. Like I have met my own barbarian which had been living unconsciously all these years. Somehow I managed to get enough calories from a bottle of Coca-Cola, which came to rescue me from hunger. Plenty of sugar and toxins for the day! Crab Hunter Comfort of money and freedom While on my way back, I was wondering what the life is all about. Life is like trying to eat crabs! You will try to attack with all your power and might, with best education, best resources, best effort. You might wanna be rich and well to do with full of crab meat in your hungry belly at the end of the day. But before that, there will be a few decades of struggle. Some even break themselves and give up. But if you are successful you will get a tiny bit of crab meat for the each of the shell you crack. You might get your soul dirty with dead crab juices. You may look like a barbarian to not only crabs but your wealthy friends who share wine with you. Who will laugh and enjoy and welcome you to their elite club of crab eaters. But the question is what comes after? Do we want to take that path? Maybe we are not seeking the comfort of money but the freedom for it. Freedom It doesn't make sense. Getting Rich or making money doesn't make sense. Unless I can stop getting hungry. Once a barbarian is not going to make you in the club. You might wanna be a barbarian for the rest of your life. Maybe we should seek freedom from it. Freedom from the burden of money and power. So we can enjoy watching a living crab more than trying to eat one. Maybe we should spend a night in dark listening to all the night owls and crickets, who struggle to keep their hungry bellies filled with each others meat. I wish some friend from my past comes out of nowhere to teach me how to achieve that freedom. Freedom from this struggle called life. Hope it is you.

I was driving through the mountains, 60 kmph today on my car weighing over half a ton. Which burned fuel approx. 15km per liter rate. Yet the speed was not regular as the bends were numerous. The air was humid with 24deg warm on Celsius scale. Ambient light did not do good for vision but provided enough that I did now want to turn on the headlights. The only noise added to the surrounding was by the engine of the car yet was not beyond few decibels. Even monkeys did not move, because they are so much used to that noise. Driving through misty mountains That was just an observation from today. You may have done it before. It's just a familiar scenario. I gave it as an example to illustrate the fact that how much we are used to these scales of measures in day-to-day life. At school as children, we spent major part of our lives learning these tools of measure. And I don't think there are many people who function without at least basic understanding of these scales. Hilariously just the other day I watched an episode of SNL where great George Washington introducing measuring scales to new Americans, at the verge of revolutionary war. How he made everything opposite of the normal, while the world chose metrics, Americans use arbitrary scales. Like measuring milk in pints and distances in miles. It gives me an opportunity to look back at our measuring scales. From the great George Washingtons point of view, as there is deep philosophy in it. Tools of measure in USA When a follower asked Mr. President why he is choosing miles over Meters he did not have any answer. He just laughed it off. Equally all other bizarre scales that Dream nation uses have no basis. But the problem is not it. If you look at all the other SI units, they also have arbitrary basis. Even meters, even kilograms even seconds. I have discussed time in detail in the book what is time. But let's look at a meter here. Meters The standard international unit of length, defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. Now, do not ask me why its 1/299 792 458. Not 1/300 000 000. It is arbitrary as it can be. No matter how much you try to rationalize numbers there will always be unexplainable depth to it. Another fact to notice is it depend on the speed of light. I would rather bet on a fixed number than speed of light. You might say it's constant. But there is a chance the speed of light is not constant. If everything changed according to the same scale overnight, we have no ability to know whether a meter has changed. Together with the speed of light. Imagine everything expands in the universe to same scale. Maybe a meter is double the length as yesterday! In reality, what I can see is nothing a constant . The constants that we see are just imaginary. I would say they are platonic. Just like a perfect circle. We can mathematically and imaginatively assume there are perfect circles and squares. But when we change our scale of measures to really small and really large all the squares either become ragged lines or unmeasurably small dots. These are just concepts. Science Do not get me wrong. I'm not saying there is no use of measuring. I use them daily just like you. That is not even the point. The real message is in matters of life and consciousness and meaning, we have to look beyond science. The answers are there not where the science is used to solve our problems. Answers will be there only when we recognize why science fails when it comes to questions about life. As science always assume something to be true to measure something against what is arbitrarily fixed. Let's not get onto an argument here. But a discussion so we can improve on science where it fails. And let's call it pseudoscience 😆 of philosophy

We are late for the school 100th time in a row. This time stupid socks that take ages to put on. And the shorts that always go the wrong side front. So, after overcoming all these troubles and looking at the clock ⏰️ it's always late. But hey? Isn't that funny? Where did the time go? Time did go somewhere, right? If it did not it should be here. But it is not here now. Now is not the time that came before. Now is a new time. But where is the old time? We started searching for our time. Looking for time Where did the time go? We looked everywhere. We looked under the bed. Under pillows. In the kitchen cabinet and the fruit basket. We even checked the old toy basket where Elsa and Ana were sleeping with their broken arms. But we couldn't find time. The precious time which was no longer there we couldn't find. Where did it go? Is it in the clock? Then, all of a sudden little Lilly white realized where it went! It must be hidden in the clock! After all that is where we read the time right. We figured out we were five minutes late just by looking at the clock. Everyone was amazed by Lilly whites' wisdom. We all stared at the clock. For a full minute. The hour hand did not move at all. The minute hand made a bare minimum move. But this second hand moved a full turn, just like that a whole minute passed and it again became past. But where did it go? We couldn't see it In the clock. It's a strange feeling to look at the clock which measures time, which we cannot see where its coming from. We cannot see where it goes to. Nobody has even ever seen this little bugger, the monster time. Yet here is the device apparently which measures time. Does it even measure time? Who can prove it measures time. We kept on looking. Naaah. It cannot be hidden in the clock. Inside out Is it outside? We looked outside in the grass. Behind the doors where we used to hide and seek. We checked the garden, and on the mango tree. We looked at the sky. Each moment we felt like the time is mocking us. It seemed going past us, but nobody could find where it went. Then again. Lily White came for the rescue. Maybe it is in our thoughts. Anyway, that is how we know it went past us right? Is it inside? We all sat on a couch and started looking at our thoughts. Somehow that felt true. Time seems to be trapped in our thoughts. Thoughts about past. Like in the thoughts of last weekend when we went to the turtle beach to meet turtles and coral fish. That wonderful Sunday morning is not here today. But we feel like it happened somehow. Its in our memory. Then again, Lilly white thought, thoughts about turtle beach are not actual thoughts which happened on the beach. These are just another set of thoughts happening now. Closely mimic those past thoughts. It seems somehow time is again invisible. Maybe we cannot find him, because he is not there. At least, we now know where it is hidden, so where to look for next time. But now, it's late. Assuming time is there, we are late for school. So we all rushed through the garden and the traffic, just before the final bell rang. Another morning gone. Mixed with the memories of the past, hidden in the attic of fairies. Just like that, in the movie "Inside out" of Riley's . Lilly White thought to herself. Lilly White Inside out Inside Out is a Pixar animated film that explores the emotions inside the mind of an 11-year-old girl named Riley. When Riley’s family moves to a new city, her emotions — Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust — struggle to help her cope with the big change. Joy and Sadness accidentally get lost inside Riley’s mind, leaving the other emotions in charge. As they journey back, Riley learns that it’s okay to feel sad sometimes, and that all emotions are important in helping her grow and adapt to life’s challenges.

I have written about games of life before . Many articles. Each one describing a slightly different viewpoint about life. Here yet again, I write on Games of life. This time about game theory and its application to ethics. You may need some background on mathematics and common sense to understand the following discussion. Let's Dive in. Game theory is the part of mathematics which describe how people make decisions when their decisions affect the outcomes for themselves and others, often in social contexts like business, politics etc. Commonly described in the way of prisoner's dilemma. Game Prisoner's Dilemma. The Prisoner’s Dilemma  is a famous example in game theory that shows why two people might not cooperate, even if it's in their best interest. Two prisoners are arrested and questioned separately. If both stay silent, they get light sentences. If one betrays the other, the betrayer goes free while the other gets a heavy sentence. If both betray, they both get moderate sentences. Even though staying silent benefits both, they often betray each other out of fear — showing how self-interest can lead to worse outcomes for everyone. So, if we are looking for the best outcome for all the members in a group, co-operation of everyone is essential. But if one guy decided to betray, he may benefit while all others suffer consequences. If the dilemma exists for two players, consider when there are thousands of players, like in fashion industry. Often there would be no mercy shown by others when there is a betrayal. Best outcome scenario by co-operation is called Social Optimum. Which is unstable. However there exist the stable status which is betrayal. When you chose to betray all the time, the outcome would not depend on what the other person choses. Hence it is stable. This status is called Nash Equilibrium. But consider this prisoners dilemma game is played again and again with same opponent, and if you continue to betray, others will know it and adjust their strategy, making it worse outcome for both. Hence in such a situation where repeated play occurs best strategy is called "Tit for Tat". You start forgiving, if the other prisoner started to co-operate in the last game and do a "Tit for tat" if he betrays in previous game. Being Nice all the time or being aggressor, all the time would not make you win in such long-term games. So, what does this teaches us about ethics? Race against survival - unsplash Game theory and ethics Consider you are a CEO of a company. If you think being nice all the time with your opponents or, even co-players would make you win, that is not true. At some point one of the competitors are going to get greedy and try to swallow you. And they may succeed if you continue to play the "Nice" game. So, you may choose "Tit for Tat" instead. Of course, now you know it is the winning strategy, there is no other choice. But if your opponent is inviably far dominant, co-operation might be the best way to survive. Hoping you might be stronger one day to fight back. Another way I look at the game is comparing the default betrayer, to the evil dictator, and the nice player to the God. As, God is unconditionally forgiving, this is a good comparison. So, in such a game, it is inevitable that if the "God" started to play with the "evil" he is going to lose anyway. So, for the betterment of the majority the "God" will have to use some dirty tactics of "Evil" to win the game and remain powerful. The God will have to use some Tit for Tat strategy. If God also have to use evil, how can we ever dream about a complete ethical world where everyone is happy winning? As long as there are two individuals in same environment we would be involved in this dirty game of fighting for resources. Balls of yarn A ball of yarn This is why when once Elon musk said "If you are wishing for world peace, be aware to be amazed by all the sacrifices we have to make to reach there". It might easily mean wiping out all the consciousness which do not desire peace but selfish existence. In other words, such a peace can only be achieved without war, only if magically all 8 billion people of the world suddenly understand this logic of game theory and chose to co-operate with everyone. Including just newborn babies. It makes me little sad, that we cannot achieve the better future for our children, but makes me alerted to look at my own life to understand how I got entangled in this ball of yarn in the first place.