This post seems to be ( atleast in my mind ) a long one. but before i write about the topic of the blog post, i would like to describe my opinions of connected topics which will lead to the actual post.
First let us look at the growth of the mind as a graph covering fixed points, each of which are a topic of knowledge.
A person's mind, at the beginning of life is like a line ( connecting 2 points, hunger and mother's breast ) which comes into existence only at some points and otherwise is simply a blank. after a few months, the lines become more permanent and stressed. after some more time, as the child grows and learns and understands more things, some more points add to this. if we imagine our mind to be the space enclosed in these points, then we would have a multidimensional graph. (think a really very weirdly shaped object.). However, the
Since i have now expressed the growth of a single human mind, lets zoom out a little and understand where this fits in with the universe. there are a lot of amazing things to learn in the universe, each of which can be thought of as a fixed point in a graph. If as above,we plot every persons knowledge (not interests, mind you. a person could have interest in a subject without possessing a pinch of knowledge in it.) as points in this graph and color each space differently, then we would have a lot of intersecting contours. This is the basis of my arguments made in the succeeding paragraphs.
As i have written before, each intersecting point could be a likely friendship. This could also be the reason for geniuses being lonely, since the contour which their mind-points sketched would not find intersections, and also possible could be some ( euclidean? ) distance away from other lesser mortals. In this specific case there is also the human nature to reject things that are unknown, hence they could shun company.(or they could be just plain shy.)
a friend can be a variety of things. but almost all seem to take on the form of having an interest in a similar topic. Some people have narrowed their choice of topics to maybe one or two, so they have a smaller contour, hence a small subset of friends. Some people are naturally social. Whereas their knowledge is little and more heard rather then learnt ( learning is not opinionated, unlike conversations, where importance could be only for a few sub-topics.), the list of topics themselves are widespread. a bigger mind-space contour, a larger friends circle It is easy connection to make and observe. Some people could be seen who seem shy but have immense interest points, but these could be (mostly are) people who have had some psychological trauma in their past to blame for their current shyness.
If some points are not clear, do ask away.
First let us look at the growth of the mind as a graph covering fixed points, each of which are a topic of knowledge.
A person's mind, at the beginning of life is like a line ( connecting 2 points, hunger and mother's breast ) which comes into existence only at some points and otherwise is simply a blank. after a few months, the lines become more permanent and stressed. after some more time, as the child grows and learns and understands more things, some more points add to this. if we imagine our mind to be the space enclosed in these points, then we would have a multidimensional graph. (think a really very weirdly shaped object.). However, the
"The mind, once expanded
to the dimensions of larger ideas,
never returns to its original size."-Oliver Wendell Holmes (link)
mind is a very curious animal. it likes to learn new things and once learnt, compare and contrast with existing and connected subjects. Here, i would also like to point out that 2 completely different subjects could have an intersecting point or 2 (or more.).
Since i have now expressed the growth of a single human mind, lets zoom out a little and understand where this fits in with the universe. there are a lot of amazing things to learn in the universe, each of which can be thought of as a fixed point in a graph. If as above,we plot every persons knowledge (not interests, mind you. a person could have interest in a subject without possessing a pinch of knowledge in it.) as points in this graph and color each space differently, then we would have a lot of intersecting contours. This is the basis of my arguments made in the succeeding paragraphs.
As i have written before, each intersecting point could be a likely friendship. This could also be the reason for geniuses being lonely, since the contour which their mind-points sketched would not find intersections, and also possible could be some ( euclidean? ) distance away from other lesser mortals. In this specific case there is also the human nature to reject things that are unknown, hence they could shun company.(or they could be just plain shy.)
a friend can be a variety of things. but almost all seem to take on the form of having an interest in a similar topic. Some people have narrowed their choice of topics to maybe one or two, so they have a smaller contour, hence a small subset of friends. Some people are naturally social. Whereas their knowledge is little and more heard rather then learnt ( learning is not opinionated, unlike conversations, where importance could be only for a few sub-topics.), the list of topics themselves are widespread. a bigger mind-space contour, a larger friends circle It is easy connection to make and observe. Some people could be seen who seem shy but have immense interest points, but these could be (mostly are) people who have had some psychological trauma in their past to blame for their current shyness.
If some points are not clear, do ask away.
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