Cognitive Constraints in Contemporary Cultures : A Critic

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Creativity, Culture, Digital, Mind, Nature, People, Religion, Society

Can we consider ourselves as cognitive species any more? I doubt so. Cognition involves critical capabilities for recognition of complex and simple challenges. As we become more and more attached to the technical singularity, we are demonstrating more and more parasitic behaviours in our daily interactions with mediums and morphs of technology. We have succeeded in abstracting our emotions, memories, senses, and perspectives into different forms and formats of technology. It is indeed a marvellous achievement from the sociological perspective. However the results of this digital transformation are not entirely enticing. We are getting enmeshed and entangled in the cultural convergence of technology and media.

It seems human mind is not able to circumvent the complexities, concoctions and convolutions of modern and post modern media formats. We, the humans, are quite imaginative and imitative. Some of us even believe that all the progresses in the pathways of human kind is just a collective result of our imitation games – imitation games that we played on the turfs of nature. Beyond the blind boundaries of imitation, we have created some inventive constructs departing from the logic of nature. The sum total of those imitations and imaginations have indeed made us mortals the magical monsters in the modern times!

When we trace route the pathways of progress, we can see that in every phase of our evolution and revolution, humanity has succumbed to the irrational instincts such as idol worship many times. There is an interesting saturation point in various cultures and sub cultures. We tend to reach our cognitive limits time and again. Perhaps this is the spirit from the story about Frankenstein monster and Faustus that reminds us about the abundance of human stupidity and stubbornness. If we try to plot the cognitive capacity curve on a graph, it may look like a logarithmic curve that saturates after a threshold. It may also be a cyclical curve of resonance. Beyond the finer nuances of the representations, it is quite clear that humanity succumbs to irrational instincts time and again.

Languages and Logic – Beyond Formalisms

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Languages, Life, Linguistics, Nature, People

it is interesting to see through the words. It is an immersive experience to see through the words. Words are the tessellations of myriads of minds. Both languages and logic have their origins and modalities reflecting the order of things. Sometimes linguists consider language as formal and semiotic. Sometimes we study about language games. Formalisms and game theory study languages from interesting but intricate vantage points. Strangely enough, together with the measures of order, there are chaos enmeshed and embodied in all the languages, both pragmatic and primitive kind. This is why we should understand that both order and disorder can co-exist in the same modalities and architectures.

It may sound quite counter intuitive in a preliminary point of view. However on a deeper inspection, we can understand that both order and disorder recognise each other. Order, chaos, and their convergence are apparently fractal in nature. This fractal nature is the result of a conjugal co-existence.When matter from multiple dimensions interpolate and coalesce, properties of order and disorder amplify and accentuate each other. This kind of a mutual reinforcement is an interesting phenomena.

Asymptotes of an auguring mind

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Essay, Mathematics, Mind, Psychoogy

It is a beginning. The very beginning of a train of thoughts. Away from the distances and disturbances of verses and veins. A lot of poems have pierced this fragmented fabric. Time to pen proses. It may be an interlude. It may a solitude. It may be a desert dawn. It may be a twilight tesselation.

A prose is more ocular than a verse. A verse is always an occult and a voice. I need to write a verse to narrate the mechanics of mind and matter, energy and essence.

Asymptotes has attracted my thoughts ever since I saw them early in my childhood mathematics lessons. My first encounter with asymptotes has been in a hysteric hyperbola in a black chalk board.

Hyperbola has been one of my first disjointed experiences in geometry. It has always perplexed my coherent and convergent perceptions about figures and facts.

Why am I taking about asymptotes now? it has accumulated way more meanings and musings ever since I travelled beyond school mathematics.

I just realised by reading from world wide web that asymptote has a reference in psychology as well. That was quite interesting.

One question that comes to my mind reading about the mechanics of asymptotes is this – is it the curve approaching the line or the line approaching the curve? It is an amusing question to my mathematical mind.

When we go into the etymology of the word – asymptotes we can understand it is a coinage from Ancient Greek culture. It means lines not falling together. From this reference we could deduce that the curve concepts were introduced to the world of asymptotes later. The linear geometry may be the early inspiration for asymptotes.

Archetypes and the architecture of thoughts

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Dreams, Life, Mind, Nature, People

Human mind follows archetypes in every train of thoughts. Archetypes are structured pathways for our thoughts. They amplify our knowledge. They illuminate our reflections. They are ancient but they are not finished yet. They are primordial yet procedural and pristine. They are the natural patterns of human mind. Perhaps they can be considered as the mathematical models of human mind. For example, the anima and animus are the infrastructure inversions of a gender category. The archetype of a self is nothing but the summation of personal unconscious and conscious mind. How do these archetypes merge, conjugate, combine and coalesce? As every natural entity is incomplete, human mind and its manifestations are also incomplete. In that sense, archetypes are also incomplete. Their incomplete nature makes them malleable to mathematical formations.

Decentralised Digital Identity – Pathways and Protocols

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People, Technology

It is quite easy to hide valuable insights in a gargantuan garbage of data. It does not matter if we call it a data deluge or a data explosion. We have witnessed this irrational immersion of information in the convoluted vaults of centralised systems over the last couple of decades. Now we are witnessing the transition from decades of data deluge to the dawn of data decay.

As data becomes more decentralised and distributed, the context and pretext of information will emerge as strong pointers to the metadata from the peripheries and obscurities. It is important to realise the role of creators and curators when we study the symbiotic relationship between content and taxonomy, data and metadata, information and narratives etc.

When centralised systems degenerate, they pave way to the emergence of decentralised systems and processes. Along with their decay, centralised systems open up the decadent vaults of information in multitude of modalities. It will be a melange of multi-modal information architectures. There will be a multitude of data and metadata formats in this information architecture.

Digital identities are one of the most valuable information architectures that will emerge prominent from this decay of centralised systems. These digital identities were fragmented and convoluted and stored in silos of segmented data stores for long time. Identity of people, things, the combination of people and things etc. all emerge from this data decay.

It is important to have meaningful and multi-modal standards to absorb and aggregate digital identities in a privacy preserving manner before we integrate them into decentralised systems and processes. We need a critical and rational approach to apply the collection of decentralisation technologies and frameworks in this pursuit.

Decentralised Identity (DID) specifications emerge as an alternate paradigm altogether. Concepts like verifiable credentials (VC) , verifiable presentations (VP), verifiable data registry, DID subjects, DID controllers, DID resolution methods etc. make this domain really rich and robust.

Verifiable credentials are an important concept in this context. It is assuming wider dimensions ever since more and more assets are getting digital identities. Credentials are important for people and assets alike. The core data model of a VC is related to the concept of claims and VP.

Claim is a statement about a DID subject. A credential is a set of one or more claims made by the same entity. A VC can include claims, proof of claims and the credential metadata such as the claim issuer, claim expiry date and time, a representative image and a public key for verification purpose etc. A VP expresses data from one or more VCs. The data in a VP is often about the same DID subject, but it might have been issued by multiple issuers.

Gravity of a gaze – beyond the bio-mechanical aspects

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Emotions, Life, Mind, People

There is no theory to gauge the gazes. Gazes are the constructs of a visual language. I feel it is bio-mechanical in nature.Languages can be considered as the collection of bio-mechanical devices and formulations. Perhaps, gazes convey different meanings and different signals for different species. Gazes can even demonstrate our focus of mind in a particular situation.

Gazes stir up emotions. Gazes extract emotions. Gazes deduce emotions. Gazes connects people in a lucid manner. It is like an invisible knot between people. The very fact that gazes convey meanings and express emotions make them a good bio-mechanical language construct. Bio-mechanical and bio-physical aspects of languages and linguistics is an aspect often ignored in our researches. It is a different topic of discussion altogether.

What happens in a gaze? It is an objectification of multiple things. It is a summation of thoughts, feelings, perspectives, etc. Gazes are so expressive in various paintings. The famous painting of Mona Lisa itself is the epitome of an impactful gaze. Gazes are dialogic in nature. They are the embodiment of dialogic imagination.

There are different kind of gazes. Some look for depths, some are shallow, some look for shades. Some other are hovering in between. Human vision is structured so selflessly. It circles around the gravity of light. It is tangential to the contours of every colour. However, human perspectives are so different.

Gazes are the theme once again. Gravity of a gaze, it is a dimension in itself. Colours are other kind of materials that deciphers and decodes a lot of meanings from our experiences, expressions and emotions. It is important to decode the meaning from these ensembles.

When you are surrounded by your own thoughts, your gaze becomes divergent and dialectic in nature. Is divergence a necessary attribute of dialectics? I think so. Dialectic entities will always demonstrate divergence in dynamic processes. Gazes are always directed to the colours. Colours create contours and coils of character in front of a gaze.

On the origin of thoughts

Our thoughts are not alone. They exist in conceptual combinations, diffused like in a swarm. Why do they form various types of continuum? Why don’t they manifest in discrete dimensions ? The metaphysics of these constructions highlight one important aspect. Thoughts have emergent properties. They have physical linkages and metaphysical modulations. They are derived from some fundamental sources. These sources consist of various emotions. It’s a bit confusing to understand the influence hierarchy of thoughts and emotions. From an experiential standpoint thoughts appear more physical. However considering the cognitive efforts required we may understand that thoughts are more complex in comparison to emotions. Every emotions have different levels of energy. Hence we may attribute various type of energies to be at the root of this hierarchy.

Design Thinking and Chaotic Dynamics : Reflections

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Creativity, Design, Mind, Nature

In every well engineered products, we can see the unity of design and data. Data is the common denomination for all types of information, content, insights etc. Data flows in and out of systems. Design is the collection of tangible and intangible constructs super imposed to the collections of data.  When we consider them in isolation, they are the recurrent reflections of chaos converging in natural beings. It is sometimes difficult to understand the chaotic currents enmeshed in the constructions. Abstractions makes it difficult to measure chaos. How does chaos converge to the orders and symmetries of nature. Chaos has cycles, iterations, entanglements, ensembles, etc. Hence chaos is not a singular dimensional system. Chaos have their own origins and energy levels too. As much as we delineate the ordered things in nature, there are categories in chaos too. 

 

Karna – A Biopic from the Kinetic Kernel of Dravidian Neo Wave Cinema

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Anima, Animality, Anthropology, Biology, Childhood, Cinema, Creativity, Culture, Design, Dialectics, Digital, Drama, DravidianCinema, Dream, Earth, Economics, Energy, Epic, Evolution, Folk lore, imagery, Jung, Metaphors, Myth, Narrative, Nationalism, Nature, Objects, People, primitive, randomness, Reflections, Society, Universe, verse, Villagers, Weather

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Sketch — A Crown Clown Cogent

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Anima, Anthropology, Colors, Digital, Dreams, Earth, Energy, Evolution, Figurative, Infinity, Myth, Narrative, Objects, Origin, Persona, Reflections, Sketch, Society, Story, Time, Virtual, Weather