I am starting to wonder if I am passing the line of sanity. I have been thinking, or should I say philosophising, so much that I am starting to loose interest in this world. I have been labelled “the thinker” and once again, I lament over the fact that I hadn’t spend 3 years of university life philosophising but instead chose to understand whiteboards followed by whiteboards of Greek letters placed in strange combination with it’s respective subscripts and superscripts.
No harm done I say because nowadays I spend most of my time awake just thinking. Sometimes my head would hurt because I think too much. I think if one day if I should become a mad person residing in the alps of Switzerland or get stuck in a corner of some London library, I should not be surprised.
Instead though, I have decided to immerse my thoughts in Sufism and trying to understand a reality beyond our reality. Some people, actually, most, people would think I have just gone insane; I did graduate from a top science university. That is not to say I do not believe science explains anything, but instead science allow mankind to utilise our logic, reason and cognitive ability to achieve a greater convenience for our fellow human brothers and sisters, and to live harmoniously with other species around us. I think science is great and one of the reasons I went to do Engineering.
I still maintain there is another reality to ours. Another dimension perhaps for physicists – after all there are infinite dimensions according to Quantum Mechanics, and I suppose it was that which Hollywood uses to make hits like that of Source Code. The existence of dimensions outside the normal 3 dimensions is beyond the comprehension of a normal human being in an empirical sense. Perhaps we wish to make use of such theories in our plan for the future, but the fact that we can’t predict an earthquake in probably one of the most earthquake prepared countries in the world illustrates that there is a force beyond ours which we cannot control. As a continuation of my previous blogpost, science can as so far as interpolate based on past sequence of data. That is what we do in Speech Recognition; we use a lot of available data to train up a model which could predict and analyse what an unknown source is about to say. Still, we get annoyed whilst driving shouting out things like “call home” and the woman in the system asks “call mom is that correct?”….no you stupid woman! So the point I am making is that our understanding of this world is purely based on our (collective) past experience. When something out of our range of experience hits us, we are left unprepared and catastrophically destroyed.
I therefore maintain that knowledge must come from an external unseen source which is not bound by the concept of time-space and using the old age cosmological theory for the existence of God, this external source of knowledge must be an unmoved being, who in my opinion is God.