Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Truth of Chance

Illusions of choice or self determination have seduced thinkers, philosophers, romantics through ages-action to tip the scale, in favor of a lover, a society, a political idealogy. That there is a preset and a definitive path of consequences, leading to the desired results-the idea of control, or atleast the possibility of control. Yes, a choice exists at every awake moment, a choice to breathe, think, act-but the consequences of this choice are, many a times, up in the air-spinning out of control, volleying at escape velocity, beyond gravity, and lost to self.

We live in a web of interconnected interactions, where individual action effects all, and all combined actions influence consequences of our single lived moment. Heisenberg's uncertainity principal is true, most so in life-proclaiming against all deterministic certainities. Individual destiny is just another chance, or probability of an event happening-a quantum mechanics of being and non being-influenced by particle or wave, real or imagined, guiding future like unseen hands- the hands of God.

Can the only truth be this chance, decipherable,and maybe even quantifyable, that anything possible or imagined, also has a finite chance of occurence.Is uncertainity the only reality? Or wait-maybe there is a loophole-all ends are real.i.e. all beginnings must finish in an end, all births in deaths- of life, stars, universe. Or is this also uncertain-nature, universe, recycles. What was once a star, is now born into me, or it could still be wandering in space, or have a finite chance to another stellar birth-a possibility of zillion different reincarnations, in infinite cycle of possible universes, of philosophies, cosmolgies, that seek to escape end-in repetative, non-deterministic births.

2 comments:

Nelli said...

Impressive!
I heard this second hand quote- labelled Einstien- the other day.
It goes something like this:'Time is invented so we can percieve all that happened in one instant.'

Arati said...

Your quote is so intriguing! Will take me some time to figure what that means.