Saturday 3 September 2011

Is it that simple being simple????


Life is complex, people are intricate, past, present, future…uff everything is so difficult….undoubtedly it is so. In this world full of complexities it is hard to find a simple entity, but is it impossible?? I don’t think so, I still believe that there can  be a simple reason to a particular action or deed. Simplicity is a rare commodity but I still believe it’s not extinct.

I have studied complex numbers and even though solving a problem on complex no is definitely very challenging and more satisfying but there can also be a possibility that while you are so busy looking for a complex solution, you completely ignore the concepts of basic math and that is where the key to this riddle lies. Even the most complex looking problems have easy explanation. But the general trend is not to find a simple answer to a complex solution…Oh c’mon that’s too boring, instead what we (I accept I’m no exception to that) do is that we find difficult answers to simple problems. Nopes…2+2 can’t be equal to 4, there has to be something more to it.

Definitely human brain is the most complex creation of nature and even after so much of research done on its functioning; it still remains a black box for scientists (ok ok…lets say grey system). You may know the inputs and you may predict the possible outputs but the working of this system is still not clear (it’s nice I still remember something from what I studied in system identification). We predict what can be the possible motif for this outcome. And most of the times we don’t consider the mundane possibilities, because they do not come in fancy packaging. Also these solutions are rare, probably not found everywhere; still I don’t think that they have stopped manufacturing simple solutions.

I’m not too sure how wise it is to just look out for a complicated answer. Definitely I’m not ‘that enlightened’ a soul to understand that. Complexity is definitely very attractive…and if it is so then who would bother to care for an average looking simplicity?? Oh plzz…simplicity is so common…but is it that common as we perceive it to be?? I don’t think so.. What I feel is that, it’s a grueling task to come up with a simple answer, coz most of the times it’s either a combination of multiple factors which influence the elucidation of a response or the subject is so complex. Simple solutions are not extinct. But whatever it may be it is not simple being simple…so hats off to the rare species who can manage simplicity…