Kopfkino

Having an edge of advantage over another in any aspect, holds far more worth than the word 'edge' represents. The lighthouse stands strong in the stormy seas of time. Be that lighthouse. An interesting pattern that I find in many places is the compounding effect of time on growth and processes. Though scientific methods clearly put down relationships of most phenomenon with time, this pattern is too hard to miss. (Or the reasons for it are still a mystery to me.)  Be it in the growth of civilisations, starting a company or learning how to play an instrument. The act of doing anything.   Let's consider an example. A man has been learning to play the piano for two years. Another man, learns only for one year but has the capability to put double the effort in the coming year.  It would seem by the end of that year both would have put in three years worth of effort and would be equally proficient. But intuition tells us that, even t hough  the latter has worked twic...

I've been fortunate enough to run into this seemingly tame video about ellipses by 3Blue1Brown , and I think I've found a nice anchor to base my love for math on. Though I read about it in textbooks and was content enough to feel I understood it, I never stopped to ponder why an angled section of a cone would give an ellipse. And I mean going down into the depths of it to really find a mathematically sound way I could represent it. I think this provides a good insight into how our imaginative minds work too. I often find myself feeling convinced of something when I successfully understand the bare basics of it. Maybe this has something to do with the Dunning Kruger effect? Perhaps so. Maybe our minds are still primitive in this sense. Even a plastic shovel can do the job of lifting off the topsoil and so can an excavator. But to dig deep into the earth, a shovel breaks immediately. And so do weak superficial proofs which provide immediate satisfaction.  I couldn't have been...

It's funny and extremely taken for granted how all humans perceive sound in the same way. Every ear and brain has it hardwired in it to listen to the same tone the same way.  It's somehow so internal to us. But why….  The fascinating thing is, I can ask a person if they've heard a song and when they say yes, I have no second thoughts if the song sounded the same to them. To me and another person on the other side of the planet, a note sounds the exact same though our inheritance and genes may be completely different. Two people having no common ancestry even a hundred generations back, will vibe to the same song in the same way. That's something now…

       Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Hominidae Subfamily: Hominidae Tribe: Hominin Genus: Homo This, is what a human living today is classified into. You are human. But you are also a 'Hominin', and so was this dashing fellow- Humans have been evolving for about 6 million years now. That's 0.000016th of how long you will be here on earth if you're lucky. We often tend to overlook our roots and where we come from, to give you a perspective, this is how your first great-grandpa probably looked - This....is how your 300 millionth Great-grandma looked!   Hope I could pique your interest! Humans as we know, began evolving separately from Chimpanzees as far as 7 million years ago.  About 20 million years ago, the first shy steps to our evolution began. Proconsuls roamed about peacefully in the trees with no threat of predators and abundant fruits to eat, all this made l...