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How a human mind works - A machine perspective

To understand the root cause of any situation, drilling with "5 whys" is my default approach. When I am curious and doing this exercise in my mind, I am not sure about counting the number of whys, to be frank. The "5 whys" is pretty much a natural flow of questioning that I've been doing without much effort for years.  Recently I was having a conversation and we were discussing how to change an outcome. This question was a trigger for me to think about the process of decision-making without our minds and how it leads to an outcome. Let me try to put my thoughts in a structured way. Imagine a machine that takes inputs and gives an output. And it has various stages in between. Our mind is this machine. The stages are Inputs, Enhancing the Inputs, Judgement, Decision, Action, Outcome and Experience. Let's understand each of these seven stages. Stage 1: Inputs     This stage represents the raw inputs that the mind is receiving. It can come from many sources the
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Asking the RIGHT question

It's surprising how human communication is so flawed and no one is paying attention to fix it at the fundamental level.  Just like the languages in Technology are evolving, well so should our human language. But sadly the language we use daily, to get by, isn't evolving to simplify our needs. We do introduce new slang and some words to our vocabulary every year but that doesn't help much.  Because of this oftentimes it's not that the answers don't exist, it's just that we aren't asking the right question. And this is true when it comes to asking questions to a computer or a family or friends or colleagues etc. Even media houses seem to be intentionally ignoring this and becoming more of an entertainment+ gossip propagator instead of helping society find answers and evolve. Let me give you an example. Let's say we want to know an answer to: How do I lose weight? Well, the default behavior is we stop here and immediately start looking for answers. But inst

Dhundhali dhunali manjil

Pata nai, hai dur kahi, Dhundali dhundali manjil, Tej chalu, kis aur mudu, Kaise main karu haasil Muskil safar, par aas bhandhi hai Girna shambhalna hi jindagi hai Tanha tanha aage hai badhana Saath mein chahe koi nahi hai Pata nai, hai dur kahi, Dhundali dhundali manjil Tej chalu, kis aur mudu, Kaise main karu haasil Shayad phir yeh mod vohi hai Pass se gujare log kahi hai Haal sabhi ka jaane kya hai Raakh kadam pe kya unki hai Pata nai, hai dur kahi, Dhundali dhundali manjil Tej chalu, kis aur mudu, Kaise main karu haasil Pata nai, hai dur kahi, Dhundali dhundali manjil

Pick your poison

 Introduction     During my usual quiet walk, a thought occur and engulfed me. And I kind of lost myself for some time in it. It was a meaningful thought. It was powerful, a shift in perspective, something I foresee will prove helpful in the future when I re-read it. So I have decided to jot it down here for my future self and share it with others as well. Let me try to explain it in as simple words as I possibly can.     The human population just crossed the 8 billion mark. We can categorize all of us in many, many ways including religion, race, nationality, age, gender, height, weight, color, wealth, IQ, etc But these are inherently divisive. It doesn't do a good job of showing us the commonality among us. Well, from the fundamental point of view, we are all one (a mixture of five elements) but how many of us truly experience it? I am not interested in just saying it.      Being honest, being candid I can't ignore but notice a division the moment I open my eyes. So how can I