Complex
Homo Sapiens Sapiens abbr. Humanity likes keeping things simple. Can't handle complexities, these primeval apes. Bum scratching monkeys, who can hardly differentiate Madonna from Nuclear Fusion, now desire to differentiate the 'Real World' from the 'Imaginary World'. (Morpheus mama would've been prouuud. Extremely!)
Real World Imaginary World, what's the fucking difference, one might ask.
Well waddaya know, there's none.
(The Wachowski Brothers, for god knows what reason, didn't seem to share my views and as a consequence gave the world 'The Matrix Trilogy' which amongst others did wonders at the box office. Guess you can indeed mint money by disagreeing with me. Now there's a revelation!)
On a more serious note, mankind has fallen prey to a reductionist approach to life wherein objects, concepts and even philosophies themselves are understood by breaking them down into constituent parts. The drawback is that one cannot understand, or for that matter even see the way these constituent units interact with each other to make the whole (of the universe or world or whatever) that we exist in.
Similarly, the concept of differentiating the real world from the imaginary world is an exercise to understand two aspects of human existence without considering them as a tightly integrated unit. The real world and the imaginary world are the two constituents of a better world, a more meaningful existence. Two sides of the same coin... One can believe it possible to view everything as something maybe not that simple, but as something seamlessly integrated. A greater concept.
Real World Imaginary World, what's the fucking difference, one might ask.
Well waddaya know, there's none.
(The Wachowski Brothers, for god knows what reason, didn't seem to share my views and as a consequence gave the world 'The Matrix Trilogy' which amongst others did wonders at the box office. Guess you can indeed mint money by disagreeing with me. Now there's a revelation!)
On a more serious note, mankind has fallen prey to a reductionist approach to life wherein objects, concepts and even philosophies themselves are understood by breaking them down into constituent parts. The drawback is that one cannot understand, or for that matter even see the way these constituent units interact with each other to make the whole (of the universe or world or whatever) that we exist in.
Similarly, the concept of differentiating the real world from the imaginary world is an exercise to understand two aspects of human existence without considering them as a tightly integrated unit. The real world and the imaginary world are the two constituents of a better world, a more meaningful existence. Two sides of the same coin... One can believe it possible to view everything as something maybe not that simple, but as something seamlessly integrated. A greater concept.
Just the way two numbers - one real, one imaginary, make a complex number.
8 comments:
what inspired this i wonder???
but yes sum is greater than its part...
fragments cant be understood as the whole i agree...
makes sense! every person has this concept of the real and the imaginary world!
Who knows? we might all be living in an illusion!! Just concepts!!
whats wrong with a "reductionist approach"? no seriously, whats wrong with it? true, it has to be complemented with an unitary approach. but, by itself too, what's wrong with it?
the size of a sand grains can affect the shape of the dune they form. without knowing the grain itself, we know not the dune.
lets not get too far ahead of ourselves, and pretend we have existential issues when we are merely bored.
which leads to one of my most favorite Neil Gaiman lines.. "Fantasy - and all fiction is fantasy of one kind or another - is a mirror. A distorting mirror, to be sure, and a concealing mirror, set at forty five degrees to reality, but it's a mirror nonetheless, which we can use to tell ourselves things we might not otherwise see."
- Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors, An Introduction.
But even otherwise, I think you'll like Gaiman. He's kinda brilliant, in a frank, mindblowing sort of way.
two words for u!!!
virtual reality
@Pricky : We discussed, I believe.
@Methi : Weird no?
@Recho : Sticking to Reductionism, how would you know that the dune existed? You would be too busy peering at the grains.
@Sitey : Hmmmm... You think so?
@Tsu : It's an oxymoron. No?
Continuing from the first comment from pricky...
yeah, the world is indeed a synergy of the imaginary and the real. But right now man is stuck in figuring out one from the other. We shall never have a perfect result, shall we? Its all theories and perspectives. heh.
P.S: Word verification too long. SXZWPJHI?? /shucks!
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