In the grip of literal-ism that shrines rather than enhance our
understanding, the world stands divided between those who think too much and
those who do not think at all; bifurcated into a complicated mind and a common mind.
A complicated mind is hinged by an uncertainty factor. This
uncertainty leads from the intellectual assertion of a mind that is afraid to
make a commitment without evaluating the pros and cons. It has a tendency to
exert itself by pushing the reasons to limits while asserting what others fail
to understand. The uncertainty to these skeptically complicated mindsets
lead to exploring of a spectrum of experiences varying from success to
struggle.
These complicated mindsets thrive on the ideas they produce. The uncanny
principle they follow upon is that the ideas generated by it should not be
abandoned merely because of an irrational social development at the core of intellectual
propositions that is being widely accepted by the common minds.
The people with these minds are skeptical to all forms of thinking
that is bereft of the rationalistic conditions and/ or are abandoning rationale to the extreme.
A complicated mind also has a tendency to remain analytical. It calculates probable occurrences which at the offset seems like a simple
phenomenon of coincidences. When it is struck by a failure or
is surrounded by struggles, this uncertainty factor satisfactorily responses to
the complication where a common mind would surrender to the limit of a human
will.
The issue with it is that' it tends to fail in providing certainty
to itself and to others. It is this uncanny nature that it does not stick to
the establishment of a single fact. It tends to question every logical belief
and commonsense which is not common anymore. The ability to even
question the existence of a god. For example:
"The concept of Buddhism which the western world in general
talks about is a devious understanding invented to force it into a christian
model. Buddha (of my understanding) never intended to find a religion. What he
proposed was a set of strategies to question the experiences and live
ethically."
Whereas, a common mind would be too busy being dominated by the rituals
of the fools to even think way beyond its critical capacity.
An uncertain mind does not concern itself with the concept of
'Utopia" or '"Nirvana" or the issue of ultimate happiness
because it cannot bring itself to accept an ultimate answer. It cannot bring
itself to terms that the ultimate answer against everything is number
"42". It is not illusioned by the pity issues of circumstance and
situations. While a normal ideology would suggest that illusions are necessary
to avoid despair, a complicated mind would immediately differentiate an illusion from
hope. It understands the ability to act upon ideas, while segregating illusions
from reality.
A common brain would select from known probable distributions when
faced with a given situation. It would bring itself to term that what it is
doing at the face of it is logical and apparently the world seems to agree with
it. The reason being simple that normal people have a bias towards known
distributions, even when uncertain distributions would logically be favorable
(i.e. risk aversion viz. Ellsberg paradox).
But a complicated mindset deriving from its uncertainty would go
for the uncertain which calculates to a risk taking characteristic. From the
outside or face of it, it looks like a vague choice or an un-calculated
decision taken on a whim, but in reality it is a decision taken out of a
complex permutation and combination of its experiences i.e. after adjudging the
potential risk taking factors.
The biggest difference between a common mind and a complicated
piece of brain is that 'a common mind would stick to a bad choice in order to
avoid something new. It believes in 'what is not broken, need not be fixed'. It
tends to stick to a bad service instead of switching to a bad service.**
A complicated mind tends to read it in a different manner, its
perspective is effected by its own uncertainty. When the odds are right, risk
the uncertain. That is logical but not common. It appears whimsical but is not.
(E.g. innovative vs. innovations: Innovative are many, but innovations are few).
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What kind of brain do you have? Is it a complicated
mind, a normal brain or is it just a brain that keeps on ticking without a reason?